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[Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:42:50 GMT

HelloI am new to the Alfresco world and not everything is clear. I'm trying to get working the Labs 3 version.I followed the compiling instructions for the PDF2SWF, but nothing changes in the alfresco interface. I think I must indicate somewhere or put the compiled files in alfresco. But where?Th

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:02:57 GMT

Alfresco is installed under Suse Enterprise 10.
I'm checking out the logs and I'll inform as soon as possible

Thanks for your help

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:59:22 GMT

Well here's what I got. It isn't quite a surprise but confirms I need help ops:


05:04:03,017 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.swf.PDFToSWFContentTransformer] Failed to start SWF2PDF transformer: 
Execution result: 
   os:         Linux
   command:    pdf2swf -V
   succeeded:  false
   exit code:  1
   out:        
   err:        Cannot run program "pdf2swf": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

But what must I create, where and what to put in it? I didn't find any documentation.

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

mikeh — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:40:52 GMT

All the documentation you might need is here: http://www.swftools.org/faq.html

Once you've compiled pdf2swf make sure the binary is copied somewhere on your path. To test it outside Alfresco, type "pdf2swf -V" and you should get the version information.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

loftux — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:57:20 GMT

Try :apt-get install pdf2swf
or aptitude install pdf2swf

On ubuntu the package name would be swftools. Unfortunately the available package is to old, you still would have to download and compile as per previous instructions.

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:39:03 GMT

Once you've compiled pdf2swf make sure the binary is copied somewhere on your path. To test it outside Alfresco, type "pdf2swf -V" and you should get the version information.

But exactly where in the path?
Because I didn't compiled pdf2swf in the alfresco directory. It compiled without errors. But it is logical I must tell somewhere to alfresco that this library exists no?

Thanks for everything!

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

mikeh — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:34:07 GMT

Alfresco doesn't care exactly where on the path - as long as the operating system can find it, that's enough.

Try something like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin maybe..? Depends on your system.

Mike

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

mikeh — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:47:59 GMT

Hello,
Try something like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin maybe..?
Mike
By default the path contains this directories.

Yes - that was the point. The binary should be copied to one of those directories.

Mike

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

mikeh — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:03:52 GMT

But if the PATH variable don t contains this directories , the system will fail to find or call any other command (even if it is a system commad).

Umm… That's why he should copy the binary to a directory that's on the path, as I said :roll:

To be clear, there are two options:
1 - Append the pdf2swf binary folder to the PATH. It sounded like the OP wasn't particularly familiar with his O/S, so this might not be the easiest suggestion in this case (although it's the preferred one)
2 - Copy the pdf2swf binary to a directory that's already referenced on the PATH, e.g. /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

Mike

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:39:55 GMT

Hi again
No I haven't fixed my problem! I tried to put the pdf2swf(which it seems is pdf2swf.1 on my computer but erased the .1) binary in the usr/bin and now I can't access the alfresco web client. There was no pdf2swf in the bin files which must be the case if I compiled right?

Maybe I should restart from the start?

Thanks

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:15:36 GMT

It sounded like the OP wasn't particularly familiar with his O/S,

Yes it's true I'm quite new to the open-source world (Alfresco and Linux). But I'm starting to catch the strength of linux commands. I hope that in a couple of months it will be my turn to explain all this to newbees! :wink:

I did exactly what is mentioned under the http://www.swftools.org/faq.html point 3 but still doesn't work! It still indicate that

Cannot run program "pdf2swf": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

spoogegibbon — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:20:27 GMT

Erm,

which it seems is pdf2swf.1 on my computer but erased the .1

You haven't compiled the source code for swftools you downloaded.
You just copied a source file, not a build executable.
Read the documentation that comes with swftools to learn how to configure and make the binaries.

SM

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:53:37 GMT

Hi spoogegibbon
The problem was the jpegLib wasn't functioning correctly on the system so the pdf2swf compilation where hazardous and not functional!
Now every thing seems to be correct (at least the logs don't print out anything anymore!) but I don't see any difference or any newer options when I look up content.
Any examples on how it should look?

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

gluck113 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:27:52 GMT

Well after letting this topic cool down I decided to retry it!
Now that I'm a little more familiar with alfresco and Linux it worked. If it can help anyone here are all the librairies I had to install.
-zlib
-freetype
-jpeglib
-ungif
-giflib
-GNU C++ compiler
-swftools (of course )

Re: [Solved]PDF2SWF installation question

webroro — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:40:04 GMT

Hi guys, when I use the pdf2swf (I mean that it's installed on my system), I get errors in my Alfresco logs. Some "broken pipe".
Did you already see that?

Kind regards