Install SWFTOOLS

Here is quick install howto for swftools 0.9.1 on CentOS 5.5:

Get the swftools-0.9.1 (this is the current for now):

[root@centos5 ~]# wget http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.1.tar.gz

[root@centos5 ~]# tar xzf swftools-0.9.1.tar.gz
Now you have to compile it so you need to have gcc and some libraries and components installed (automake, zlib-devel, libjpeg-devel, giflib-devel, freetype-devel) so you don’t get errors during the compile process:

[root@centos5 ~]# yum install gcc* automake zlib-devel libjpeg-devel giflib-devel freetype-devel

[root@centos5 ~]# cd swftools-0.9.1

[root@centos5 ~]# ./configure

[root@centos5 ~]# make

[root@centos5 ~]# make install

n 3.4.d, the pdf2swf conversion that is used by default in preview, is broken (at least in Linux package). The reason is the corrupted library link (libstdc++.so.5). You have to fix it this way:

$ cd $YOUR_ALFRESCO_DIRECTORY/common/lib
$ rm libstdc++.so.5
$ ln -s libstdc++.so.5.0.3 libstdc++.so.5