FlashPaper & Command Line Conversion

Question

Hello,
I need for work purposes to use FlashPaper for ppt pdf swf
conversion, but I want to do such things from our J2EE FlashCom
webapp (calling run.exec("C:\Program Files.....\flashpaper.exe...
")) as if we were running FlashPaper from command line. Is there a
way to run it from the command line lets say :flashpaper -inputfile
- outputfile. If yes does somebody know the synopsis for doing
that?
Thanks & Cheers,
A.Dafinei

Answer 1

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Originally posted by:
JC!
Yes. If you run the FlashPaper.exe file with the file to
convert and specify the output file name with a -o flag, you can do
it via the command line. What this does is launch Acrobat Reader,
load the file, and print to SWF. It isn't elegant, but it works.
FlashPaper.exe MyFile.pdf -o MyFile.swf
The problem with simply sticking this into a loop is that the
command returns immediately, even though the conversion hasn't
completed yet. Since Acrobat Reader is actually doing the
conversion, you have to wait until the PDF file exists before you
process the next file.
Here is a Perl script a co-worker found that basically does
this for a folder, recursively. Move the source and output files
elsewhere and pop the whole thing into another loop and it should
go indefinitely. It is pretty simple, and should be easy to convert
into the scripting language of your choice.
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