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<title>ploticus: flash (swf) support</title>
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<td><br><h2>Flash (SWF) support</h2></td>
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<a href="../doc/welcome.html"><img src="../doc/ploticus.gif" border=0></a><br>
Version 2.33 Jun'06
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.TH Flash_(SWF)_support PL "02-JUN-2006 PL ploticus.sourceforge.net"
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Ploticus version 2.11+ supports the
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<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
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\0shockwave flash (SWF)
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output format.
Use the \fC-swf\fR command line option.
SWF support is only available when included at compile time and requires the ming library (see
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\0build instructions
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and the Makefile). Ming version 0.2a was used during the original development effort.
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.SH Fonts
Environment variable SWF_FONTS_DIR must be defined to hold the full path name of a directory
containing .fdb font files. The ploticus SWF driver expects font names to be a single token;
font names containing embedded whitespace should be renamed (or soft linked) to a name containing no
embedded whitespace.
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<a href="fonts.html#swf">
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\0More info on fonts
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.SH Output files
Output files will be named \fC.swf\fR by default.
These files can be viewed directly using a browser that has a flash plugin.
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.SH Example
The example below was created by issuing this command:
\fCpl -swf stock.htm\fR
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<embed src="../gallery/stock.swf"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height=300 width=500>
</embed>
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<a href="../gallery/stock.swf">
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\0stock.swf
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<a href="../gallery/stock.htm">
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\0stock ploticus script
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.LP
Here's the embed HTML:
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<embed src="../gallery/stock.swf"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height=300 width=500>
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.SH Bugs / not supported:
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line dash styles
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clickable regions / click maps / mouseover tooltip text bubbles
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some color change issues have been occasionally noted
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fontnames having embedded spaces don't work - rename your font file or make a soft link
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The SWF driver does not release memory correctly when there are multiple "jobs" per OS process,
as might be done when using the libploticus API.
Still, it seems to produce usable .swf results in
my tests of about 20 jobs in one OS process. (scg - May 12, 2004)
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.SH Acknowledgement
Many thanks to Bill Traill
(\fC bill@traill.demon.co.uk \fR)
for initiating ploticus
SWF support and writing the ploticus SWF driver.
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