Some paths are badly converted

[maltaisn]

The program sometimes fail to convert some paths to the intermediate representation, so both SVG and PDF are affected.

This seems to be a common problem in many applications that convert SWF to SVG. The algorithm used by swf-convert was copied from the one used by as3swf. The result is that this file gets converted to the path seen in the first image (viewed from Inkscape with added stroke) while the second image is the expected output (viewed from Flash Player or Lightspark).

I searched for another algorithm, however all of the following open source programs produce the same wrong output:

• as3swf, gives the output above.
• ffdec, seems to be based on as3swf, shapes displayed in the program are wrong too. An issue is opened here.
• Flash2SVG, getting wrong paths too.
• pyswf, again, similar output.
• The algorithm described in the Swiffy thesis looks a lot like the one used in as3swf.

I also asked for help on StackOverflow. It's entirely possible that there's currently no program able to reliably convert SWF shapes to SVG, in which case this issue will pretty much exist forever.

[jindrapetrik]

Hi, I am not sure, but I think I fixed the issue in FFdec - see the issue in its tracker.

[maltaisn]

Thanks a lot! I fixed it here and it seems to work pretty great. Also congrats on the recent progress on FFdec, I see it's been going pretty fast for the past two months.