
SWFTools: A Suite of Utilities for Adobe Flash Files
SWFTools is a suite of utilities designed for working with Adobe Flash files, specifically SWF files.
The tool collection includes programs for SWF file manipulation
The tool collection consists of programs designed for reading SWF files, merging them, and generating them from various types of content, such as images, sound files, videos, or source code. SWFTools is distributed under the GPL.
The Current Collection of Programs
The current collection includes the following programs:
- **PDF2SWF**: This is a PDF to SWF Converter that creates one frame for each page. It allows for fully formatted text, which includes tables, formulas, graphics, and more, all within your Flash Movie.
- **SWFCombine**: A versatile tool that enables you to insert SWFs into Wrapper SWFs, concatenate multiple SWFs, stack SWFs, or perform basic parameter adjustments, such as resizing.
- **SWFStrings**: This program scans SWFs to extract text data.
- **SWFDump**: This tool outputs various details about SWFs, including information on contained images, fonts, sounds, disassembly of the included code, as well as cross-reference and bounding box data.
- **JPEG2SWF**: This program takes one or more JPEG images and creates a SWF slideshow from them. It supports motion estimation compression (H.263) for improved compression of video sequences.
- **PNG2SWF**: Converts PNG files into SWF format.
- **GIF2SWF**: This tool converts GIF files to SWF format and is capable of handling animated GIFs as well.
- **WAV2SWF**: Converts WAV audio files into SWFs using the L.A.M.E. MP3 encoder library.
- **AVI2SWF**: This program converts AVI animation files to SWF format and supports Flash MX H.263 compression.