I’ve been implementing the Doc viewer feature 2 years ago. Swftools is a core part. But we’re using Windows environment, we could get the compiled package directly, namely pdf2swf.exe.

However, when I tried to get it installed in my Ubuntu 13.10 by following this, I virtually had a hard time. Then I found this useful link, I’d rather take some note here.

It requires 2 additional libraries

jpeglib

jpeglib can be found here. But it’s said v8+ is not compatible with current Swftools, so I installed v7.

wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz
tar -zvxf jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz

cd jpeg-7
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

freetype

The latest version is 2.5.2, installing it is a little tricky.

wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/freetype/freetype-2.5.2.tar.gz
tar -zvxf freetype-2.5.2.tar.gz

cd freetype-2.3.12
rm -f config.cache
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a
sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib
sudo LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

install Swftools

cd swftools-0.9.0
sudo LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

“rm: invalid option – o”

When you make install Swftools, you might get this error. This bug should be fixed in 0.9.3, but I’m using 0.9.2, some workaround needs to be done.

refine swfs/Makefile, remove below line

-o -L $(pkgdatadir)/swfs/default_loader.swf