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Convert pages in SWF to PDF
Convert pages in SWF to PDF
The new version SWF to PDF Converter 2.2 is available.
You can use it to convert the SWF document that contains multiple pages to PDF.
How to Convert
The steps is:
Open .swf with SWF to PDF Converter (2.2 or later)
Goto Movieclip Tab
Select the pageList or the pages you want and save as PDF.
Done.
In the following video demo, 6 different types of SWF documents that contains multiple pages and how…
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Is it possible to convert Flash Paper to PDF?
Is it possible to convert Flash Paper to PDF?
Some people tried to upload the Flash Paper documents in SWF to PDF Converter Trial service. But they get an empty PDF since the service converts only static SWF pages (one .swf is a page).
According to my survey, Flash Paper document is a flash program that contains the pages data. The pages are actually MovieClips defined by “DefineSprite” SWF tags. It’s very possible to extract the pages and…
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Convert SWF files to PDF with ORB Reader How to? Select the .swf files in Finder Right-click to choose "Package .swf files to .orb…
Stop old iMac HDD Swapping Noise on Yosemite
Stop old iMac HDD Swapping Noise on Yosemite
My iMac 27″ was 2011-mid model with 8GB memory and 1TB HDD.
After upgraded to Yosemite, the HDD was making noise even when I was sleeping.
Then I found it was actually swapping in the background since the memory usage near the gate of installed physical memory.
It really annoyed me since I can’t turn off it in order to run this website.
So, I got to find a way to make the HDD silent.
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New App Icon
ORB Viewer 2.0 only supports iOS 8 or later, and it’s the heavily refactored to support following important new features.
Import Books from iCloud Drive or other apps
Not only import .orb files via iTunes File Sharing, but also from iCloud Drive and any app that can export the file. Now, it’s your choice to use any service you want.
Faster and Power Saving for SWF Animation
SWF animation is supported since ORB Viewer 1.8. Now, the animations were rendered with Core Animation that’s much faster and saved over 80% power. Seeing the SWF animation in the page won’t drain out your power anymore.
Support Landscape Orientation
Some users asked me to support it for the iPad covers. Now, you don’t have hold the iPad anymore while reading the books.
By the way, the text would be larger and easier to read when enable Reader Mode in landscape orientation.
Enjoy your reading.
ORB Viewer 2.0 New App Icon ORB Viewer 2.0 only supports iOS 8 or later, and it's the heavily refactored to support following important new features.
Auto Resize All Images in the Folder
Auto Resize All Images in the Folder
Setup Preference of the Source Folder
App Icon Resizer 2.0 added the new feature to convert all images in a folder. The folder is called source folder and all images in it will be monitored and converted automatically according the conversion preference you setup.
Setting up the conversion preference of the source folder is the same as how you setup for a source image.
Just drag and drop the…
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ORB Reader 2.7 for Yosemite
ORB Reader 2.7 for Yosemite
It’s available to update on Mac App Store.
ORB Reader for Mac
This version is built for OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) only and fixed the rendering bugs on Yosemite.
If have not upgrade to OS X 10.10, use ORB Reader 2.6.1 that’s stable on OS X 10.9.5 and before.
Time goes fast, ORB Reader 1.0 was released in 2014/01/08 and this is the 24th update within the last 10 months.
It started as a simple viewer,…
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SWF to PDF Service Free Trial
SWF to PDF Service Free Trial
After 3 days work, it’s online.
If you want to see the conversion result of your own SWF to PDF. Try this free service with limited quota (3 swf files per day).
You’ll get two PDF files per uploaded .swf, one is pure vector-based PDF that all embed font was rendered as vector shapes.
Another one is text selectable PDF rendered with standard Times New Roman font.
SWF to PDF Service
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Background
I live in the countryside that can’t get a better network bandwidth and I don’t trust any web hosting service in security. Maybe some people are facing the same problem to get their WordPress faster.
My poor upload bandwidth (438Kbps) shared with my family
In order to provide faster services to western users (mostly in US and Europe), I need to optimize the performance of WordPress installed on my 2011 iMac 27″ running OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).
There are 35 active plugins running in this WordPress. Apparently, it’s not a clean site.
Finally, I get 1 ~ 3 seconds from 7 ~ 18 seconds with all free services in the world. According to Pingdom Website Speed Test, it’s faster than other 80 ~ 90% sites tested.
I think this should be good for a WordPress site running amount of plugins in a poor network bandwidth without any paid CDN.
Benchmarking
To know what’s the bottleneck, you always observer, analyze and benchmarking. Here are great two free network services that I used to benchmark my site.
Pingdom Tools
WebPagetest – Website Performance and Optimization Test
According to the benchmarks before optimizations, my site is slower than 80% of other tested site. The major issues I got were:
Very bad first byte time. (Well, for a site running with 35 active plugins, not surprised.)
No cache for static resource.
Not compressed images.
CSS and JS that blocks the rendering.
Optimize Contents
Most noticeable time were used to loading the images. So I tried to reduce them first.
Smaller File = Faster Loading
Images
Reduce all images file size
Use progressive JPEG for big images instead PNG. Mostly the screenshots without transparency should changed to progressive JPEG.
Reduce PNG images with ImageAlpha.app. Reduce PNG by only needed colors instead of full color space to save more than 60%.
There are over 1.3K image files in my site. So I build automation workflow services to do the reducing easier and faster in Finder. Such as Reduce Image, Resize Image, Save as JPG, Execute Shell Script with parameters.
Serving Images Faster with Free Image Service
Even I reduced all images over 60%, my network bandwidth is still too slow for both the response time and transferring. So I got to find the image service which is worldwide available.
Faster Network = Faster Loading
I used Dropbox for this purpose before, but it’s really not fast enough on image files without CDN. And I finally found imgur which is fast, stable, easy to upload and free.
The simple image sharer.
Upload all images to imgur with wp-imgur plugin which works really good with only few issues I found.
Use External Featured Image plugin(simple patched) to show the image on imgur by direct link for the issue that wp-imgur didn’t replace the feature image with imgur link.
Patched all plugins’s image links to use imgur link instead of loading from this site.
Patched theme icon links to imgur direct links.
CSS & JavaScript
Use Google Hosted jQuery instead of WordPress default copy.
Minified and package with BWP Minify.
Cache Server with Google App Engine Service
Build my first Google App Engine service in PHP to cache all the css and js files.
There are some other services that do the same job like a CDN, but I got to handle the cached files myself and I use my own ways to update the caches. (It’s related to the buster support of BWP Minfy) So I’ve to build my own custom service for it.
Cache Miss Handling
Redirect to the original site if cache missed. So the user request would build up the required css and js.
Build the second Google App Engine service in Python to send the cache missed XMPP(Jabber) message to myself. So I can get the message on all my devices in real time. (Well, this is my first Python program.)
Trying to create my first WordPress plugin to rebuild all the caches by accessing all posts/pages/categories.
TODO: Auto deployment to the cache server.
TODO: Modify the XMPP message service to get my message to deploy the caches. I’ll be able to deploy on all my devices. (Seems pretty cool.)
Web Fonts
Patched all plugins and themes to use Google Fonts Service (CDN)
HTML
Cached and compressed by WP-SuperCache.
DOM Loading and Rendering Optimization Re-order .js to prevent from blocking the rendering.
Design
Dark tone for easier reading.
Full width layout for pages.
Patched for embedly which replaced the link to cards after layout. So, re-layout after the replacement. (jQuery, long time no see.)
Web Server (Apache)
Use ApachBench(ab) to test the server performance.
RewriteRule for the cached (compressed) page files without running WordPress. Take care of this would get the response time much faster since the request would be redirect to the cached files instead of generating them by WordPress.
RewriteRule to ban bad bots and exploiting requests.
Custom 404, 403 pages without WordPress handling. Even bad requests flooded, they were handled by Apache directly. The generated 404, 403 pages by WordPress would cost a lot CPU and much larger response data flow.
Disable unused modules to prevent security issues, such as HeartBleed, ShellShock, etc..
Compress text files (Content-Encoding) Deflate all the html, js and css files.
ExpirationDay for each type of files.
Results
You can get the results by entering my site’s URL in Pingdom Website Speed Test.
Detail Profile of Amsterdam
After all these optimizations, it still took helf time to connect and load the compressed html(only 7.3kB) directly from my site in such poor bandwidth. The other resources were loaded extremely fast. I believe you can easily made your site get loaded in 0.3s ~ 0.5s if you pay more effort on it, since most people had much faster network than my poor ADSL in Taiwan.
Conclusion
It’s a good week to hack, but nothing is perfect. Always ways to get it better if we looked further.
Let’s save everyone’s time for better things instead of waiting.
Optimize WordPress to 1 second Background I live in the countryside that can't get a better network bandwidth and I don't trust any web hosting service in security.
App Icon Resizer 2.0 Preview
App Icon Resizer 2.0 Preview
What’s New in App Icon Resizer 2.0
Redesigned UI as screenshots above.
Source Folder Preference (New) Put all images with the same preference to the source folder, they’ll be converted automatically. No longer add each image again and again.
Support OS X 10.10 or later.
Vibrancy UI
Source Icon/Folder Management
Source Folder Preference (New)
App Setting
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Caution to ORB Reader Users!!!
Caution to ORB Reader Users!!!
Apple released OS X 10.10 GM Candidate in 9/30.
Selectable text (in Booster Mode) of certain books was not correctly rendered in this new OS.
The other functions perfectly worked as before.
If you need selectable text, please stay in OS X 10.9.5 or before until I fix this issue.
I hope to get it fixed before OS X 10.10 is officially released.
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ORB Reader 2.6.1
1. Export best quality PDF is optional that can be enabled in Preference.
If you like a smaller (about 1/3rd) PDF file, don’t check it. Enable for the best text quality if you want to print out the PDF.
2. Fixed the bug that can’t to open .zip file directly.
This new update is still waiting for review. So… it should be available soon.
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App Icon Resizer 1.8
App Icon Resizer 1.8
@3x Pixel Perfect as Easy as Always
In order to support iPhone 6 plus, you should prepare the source images with 3x size instead of 2x.
The Icon Preference panel added the two new options:
1. 1/3 (1x), 2/3 (2x) resize option for iPhone 6+ images.
You drop the (3x) source image and check this option, it’ll generate 1x, 2x, 3x for you.
In order to get pixel perfect, your source image should be…
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Limits of animation pages of an ORB book
Limits of animation pages of an ORB book
Before 1.9, ORB Viewer only parsed and rendered the first frame(page) of .swf file.
Beginning of The Animation Support
The animation pages were supported since ORB Viewer 1.9. It can play the frames after you touched the play button.
So readers can see the animation of the .swf page directly on iPad. I think it is very useful if you need to explain a complex idea or concept with animations. That…
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ORB Viewer 1.9
What’s New?
Support iOS 8.
Fixed the missing replaced objects bug in the page animation.
Optimized the hit testing to zoom in the text or image you exactly tapped with animations.
Refined UX with fade animations without flashing our eyes.
More
How to package Flash documents (.swf) to an ORB book to read or demo on iPad
ORB Viewer Product Web
Free Trial – ORB Viewer Lite (No support animations…
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SWF to PDF Converter 2.1
SWF to PDF Converter 2.1
New App Icon
All known geometry rendering bugs were fixed.
Fixed the animation rendering bug of missing replaced sprites or objects.
Fixed the bug that wrong alpha transform value caused the objects invisible (It’s there but transparent).
Fixed the bug that export the frame to .png would step to the next frame.
Play/Stop/Step/Capture/Rewind with hotkeys.
If you’re an app developer, see Use PDF…
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Create an ORB book in Finder
Create an ORB book in Finder
I just converted ORB Creator.app to a workflow service that you can use to create ORB books in Finder.
No need to find and launch the app anymore.
Installation
1. Download Create ORB.workflow
2. Double-Click Create ORB.workflow to open and install it.
How to use it?
1. Select .swf or .gau files in Finder
2. Right-click and choose Service > Create ORB
3. Done.
This workflow is much smaller,…
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