Flash Tool¶ ↑

A ruby wrapper for swftool command line tool. www.swftools.org

Flash tool is small and mini tool for creating swf files from pdfs, pictures and fonts and parsing data from flash files.

gem install flash_tool

With this wrapper you commands from swftools program.

SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files. With Flash tool you can easely creates and manipulates flash files.

With Flash tool you can create swf file from pdf, jpeg (jpeg and jpg extension), png, gif, fonts (ttf, afm, pfa, pfb formats) and wav(this funcionality is untested and you can often have problems with SWFTools installation with command wav2swf)

Simple creating flash object from pdf file

swfile = FlashTool::FlashObject.new('path_to_file.pdf')
swfile.pages('1-10')
swfile.jpegquality('80')
swfile.save('outputfile_path.swf') # no need to declare ouptutfile_path in save if you used swfile.output() method before

Creating file from other format is very similar

Example for jpg

swfile = FlashTool::FlashObject.new('path_to_file.jpg')
swfile.output('outputfile_path.swf')
swfile.save()

Flash tool automaticly recognize extension of file and call propriete SWFTool program If you use files without extension you just simply add string of extension when initialize FlashObject

swfile = FlashTool::FlashObject.new('path_to_file','jpg')

You can use tempfile

swfile = FlashTool::FlashOject.from_blob('path_to_file','jpg')

Creating flash with viewer

swfile = FlashTool::FlashObject.new('path_to_file.pdf')
swfile.pages('1-10')
swfile.viewer('path_to_viewer_file')
swfile.save('outputfile_path.swf')

You can use with the block

swfile = FlashTool::FlashObject.new('path_to_file.pdf') do |f|
 f.pages('1-10')
 f.viewer('path_to_viewer_file')
 f.save('outputfile_path.swf')
end

SWFTool command will be called when you save object.

With SWFTool you can use scripts for creating flash files. More on wiki.swftools.org/index.php/Swfc

flash_object = FlashTool::FlashScript.new("path_to_script")
flash_object.save(output_file)

Other way

FlashTool::FlashScript.create("path_to_script","output_path")

It is possible to push flash data in variable

flash = FlashScript.flash_data("path_to_script")

or

flash_object = FlashTool::FlashScript.new("path_to_script")
flash = flash_object.cgi

It is very simple

FlashTool::FlashTool.parse_text('path_to_file.swf')

You can get data from flash files with swfdump tool

FlashTool::FlashTool.swfdump('path_to_file.swf', 'command') #use swfdump options http://www.swftools.org/swfdump.html

Don’t use option text it is buggy, instead that use method FlashTool.parse_text With method swfdump output is string

Better way

FlashTool::FlashTool.(command) List of command can get from http://www.swftools.org/swfdump.html

Examples

FlashTool::FlashTool.rate(file)   #return Float
FlashTool::FlashTool.width(file)  #return Integer
FlashTool::FlashTool.height(file) #return Integer
FlashTool::FlashTool.frames(file) #return Integer

Other methods returns String

All this methods call commands swfdump, every time you call method. If you want to do it in one pass use

FlashTool::FlashTool.flash_info(file)

Returns hash with keys ‘width’, ‘rate’, ‘height’, ‘frames’, and all values are strings

This is advance technique for combining flash files. It is possible to combine two or more flash files More about this on www.swftools.org/swfcombine.html For simple adding viewer use FlashObject and creating vith view method

flash = FlashCombine.new() do |f|
 f.master(inputs)
 f.slave("viewport",TEST_SWF)
 f.rate(25)
 f.output(output_file)
 f.save()
end