[Zope] swf to jpg conversions under Zope

[Dennis Allison]

On  Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:13:14 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> wrote:
>
>On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:06:18PM -0800, Dennis Allison wrote:
>> I need to construct some pdf documents under Zope that incorporate
>> Macromedia Flash *.swf files (static images).  The HTML->pdf programs
>> I have seen don't grok *.swf files so a conversion step is needed.  
>> Can anyone point me to a server-side swp->jpg (or other format) converter
>> suitable for use under Linux and Zope?
>
>A solution I've used to extract still pictures from RealVideo files,
>i.e. a proprietary data format, is a python script which launches
>RealPlayer then uses ImageMagick's import command to capture it's 
>window and save it as jpeg.
>
>I guess this wouldn't be very good on the server side, but maybe
>you could do something like that on a workstation if the images
>you want are static, and then put them on the server already
>extracted.

Not really the ideal solution, but workable.  The images are not
generated dynamically so a static conversion to, say, a jpg will do 
the job.  I should be able to write a Python script to do the conversions
off-line using the Macromedia standalone player.