Save SWF as PDF?

[tinfanide]

I have searched online and people point to AlivePDF.
I just couldn't use it without error.
Could anyone point me to somewhere I don't need to do it through PHP and just save the SWF locally as PDF?

Thanks in advance.

[henke37]

Flash movies are interactive and can load external content. PDF files are not interactive (to this extent) and is a poor fit for the possible content of a Flash movie.

And that's excluding obvious facts like that pdf files don't do animation or sound.

[tinfanide]

Originally Posted by henke37

Flash movies are interactive and can load external content. PDF files are not interactive (to this extent) and is a poor fit for the possible content of a Flash movie.

And that's excluding obvious facts like that pdf files don't do animation or sound.

What about this?
I was thinking of converting a SWF to JPEG and I did work it out.
And just one further step:
by any means (not just ActionScript, maybe other scripting languages in Adobe) could I convert JPEG to PDF?

[BobThyAsian]

Dude, it's like you're trying to turn a movie into a book in a literal sense. I'm sure you could "print screen" and save that as a pdf after converting from image.

[tinfanide]

Originally Posted by BobThyAsian

Dude, it's like you're trying to turn a movie into a book in a literal sense. I'm sure you could "print screen" and save that as a pdf after converting from image.

Yes, I knew other than programming it, there are plenty of ways to turn an image into a PDF. Yet, what I wanted was to do it programmatically so that users can do something in my application and finally save it in PDF on the fly.

[jsprclimber123]

As long as you're aware of the implications of the static nature of PDF's vs. the dynamic and interactive nature of SWF's, I don't see why you couldn't render out the current scene of the SWF as pixel data (to something like a canvas) and save from there. Browser support is an issue here, but is one option for you to consider.

[henke37]

You don't want to save a flash movie as a pdf. You want to export a pdf file from an application implemented as a flash movie.

[tinfanide]

Originally Posted by jsprclimber123

As long as you're aware of the implications of the static nature of PDF's vs. the dynamic and interactive nature of SWF's, I don't see why you couldn't render out the current scene of the SWF as pixel data (to something like a canvas) and save from there. Browser support is an issue here, but is one option for you to consider.

How about this? (still error opening the PDF, though):

import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.net.FileReference;
import flash.display.Bitmap;

var dBitmap:BitmapData = new BitmapData(stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight); // pixel data?
dBitmap.draw(stage);
var oBitmap:Bitmap = new Bitmap(dBitmap);


var oFileReference:FileReference = new FileReference();
oFileReference.save(oBitmap.bitmapData,"pdf.pdf"); // error opening the pdf.pdf 

[henke37]

Congratulations on pointlessly creating a Bitmap object when you only wanted the BitmapData object.

Also, you shouldn't even attempt to export anything if you think that just changing the extension will change the actual data. Go and read the PDF file format specification and then come back.