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    Is there ANY free program, which can converts ANY vector-based file format to SWF file format?

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    No. Unless you count XML->SWF

    You can write one though :-)

    http://www15.brinkster.com/JAEzell

    --Jesse

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    There's a JAVA/ SVG => SWF (SVG is XML BTW) converter out there also...

    Which reminds me applets are coming back in especially since SUN started distributing a SVG parser for free.

    If you want to fork over some dough (about $60 US) you could get QT Pro (29.99- not the free version which is disabled) and Vid 2 SWF. That would allow you to import and convert about 200 different formats. The conversion would go from QT to Vid2SWF or you could reverse that and go from Vid2SWF to QT.

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    well not finished yet, I've just uploaded a alpha test version of SWF convert

    you can get it at http://www.chironexsoftware.com

    it can convert BMP,JPG,PNG,PCX,PAX,PSD,TLG,TLA,TIF , and a small amout of WAV aupport, and i'm working on MP3 , AVI and MOV

    Test it out and give me some suggestions.
    Thanks,

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    Going to add AI, EPS, WMF, etc?

    --Jesse

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    I'd like to, but i haven't had much experience with EPS,WMF etc. I don't think i've even open one yet, a guess it will take a bit of research, and time, that's my biggest problem at the moment.

    Oh , and by the way, thanks for your input in the macromedia forum, about the tags used for getting an anitmation done. I was doing it right but for some reason the movie would only display the first image then stop. - - I think your SDK is really good too, i haven't used it yet, but i've been testing a few, and i really hate the macromedia one, especially when trying to make complex action scripts, I could make the action script in FLASH then use swf scanner to view the order of the action tags, but useing the push action with things like FString etc really sucked.


    Jared,
    SWF scanner,SWF Convert,SWF protect,
    http://www.chironexsoftware.com

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    Hi chironex,

    what about making a Linux version?

    Regarding EPS: I mentioned this in a previous thread: there is a program around (in a rather different category) which uses Ghostscript to parse all kinds of PS/EPS/AI files; using this approach has the definite advantage that a program would be able to convert any correct file, while many other existing converters from PS are restricted to files written by specific clients

    Musicman

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    No prob. Glad to help.

    --Jesse

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    Where is that SVG->SWF convertor???

    Hi,

    could you please give any URL for this SVG->SWF convertor you mentioned in your message?

    Thank you ;-)

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    ArneO

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    Perhaps you were thinking of SWF->SVG?

    http://www.ep.cs.nott.ac.uk/~sgp/swf2svg.html

    To convert SVG to SWF, you could do it in two steps...SVG->PNG (with SVG Toolkit http://sis.cmis.csiro.au/svg) and then to SWF with imagecnv (http://www15.brinkster.com/JAEzell). Both are command line tools, so you could automate the process.

    --Jesse

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    Or...

    Or...come to think of it, support for WMF, or a number of other vector formats can be accomplished with the ImageMagick library that imagecnv uses...go to imagemagick.org, take a look at the formats page, download the libraries that support your desired format, and add them to the imagecnv source...then it would only take one step (I do not plan to integrate any of those other libraries into the source code of the SWFSource SDK at this point...the integration option is left open to developers because it is a relatively simple process).

    --Jesse

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