SWFTools is the utilities for working with Adobe Flash files. These tools includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode).
Install SWFTOOLS:
Download latest Sourcecode from here…
http://swftools.org/download.html
# wget http://swftools.org/swftools-0.9.0.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf swftools-0.9.0.tar.gz
# cd swftools-0.9.0
# ./configure
# make
Some time make generate errors for xpdf.. so we have to install xpdf here….
Search for “xpdf-3.02.tar.gz” download & install
# cd lib/pdf
# wget http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/xpdf/xpdf-3.02.tar.gz
# perl inject-xpdf.pl xpdf-3.02.tar.gz
Then…
# make clean
# make
# make install
Here we successfully installed swftools for all swf related operations.
We can find all linux utilities in src for of “swftools-0.9.0” like
* as3compile
* font2swf
* gif2swf
* jpeg2swf
* pdf2swf
* png2swf
* swfbbox
* swfc
* swfcombine
* swfdump
* swfextract
* swfrender
* wav2swf
SWFTools has been reported to work on Solaris, Linux (both 32 as well as 64 bit), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, MacOS X and Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.
