How to convert SWF into a PDF

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I want to convert a SWF document to into PDF.

The SWF can be found here (Update: no longer available):

http://www.imsindia.com/online/tests/test_111.swf

And I would like to be able to convert or save it down as a PDF. How do I go about doing that?

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If I had to do it, I would use SWF to FLA decompiler, open the file in Adobe Flash and try to somehow export it from Flash.

The downside is, you need (1) the decompiler, which is not (legally) for free, and (2) the same applies for Adobe Flash.

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A possible way is to install Fiddler which acts as a proxy on your own computer. When you'll set it as a default proxy in your browser all connections will go through it, including every Flash connection. Then you can save all the files the Flash applet requests and place it on a locally-installed webserver in appropriate directories.

Probably this is the only way to "save", i.e. duplicate functionality of sites with such dynamically loaded content.

There may be troubles with a e.g. game which stores its level data in different files for each level and loads them when you unlock that level, but you can try guessing file names in such a case.

Linux – How to convert PDF to Grayscale

I found a solution in a blog post:

With GhostScript (and Windows users can access gs via cygwin), you can do it with the following command:

gs \
  -o grayscale.pdf \
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
  -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray \
  -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray \
  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \
   source.pdf

This will convert source.pdf to grayscale.pdf and not put you into a GhostScript shell (due to the -o option instead of the -sOutputFile= option).

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