Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install swftools

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install swftools

MacPorts ports tree · graphics/swftools/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#swftools

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/sw/swftools/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

SWF manipulation and generation tools

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

as3compile
font2swf
png2swf
swfbbox
swfc
swfcombine
swfdump
swfextract
swfrender
swfstrings
wav2swf

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

SWFTools is a collection of command-line utilities for reading, combining, extracting, and generating Adobe Flash SWF files. Its package-manager relevance comes from the Unix-toolbox shape of the project: many small executables such as swfdump, swfextract, png2swf, wav2swf, font2swf, swfc, and as3compile rather than one monolithic application.

Projektgeschichte

The official ChangeLog records the project from an initial 0.0.1 release through the 0.9 series. Across those releases the suite expanded from PDF and SWF manipulation into text extraction, image and audio conversion, Flash compression support, SWF bounding-box work, a scripting compiler, Python bindings, and ActionScript 3 tooling.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The official README reports portability across Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, macOS, and older Windows releases. In package-manager culture, SWFTools survived the decline of browser Flash because archival, conversion, and inspection tasks still needed reproducible command-line tools.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage is file-oriented: inspect SWF metadata with swfdump, extract embedded assets with swfextract, combine or wrap movies with swfcombine, or generate SWF content from images, fonts, WAV audio, PDFs, or simple source scripts. This makes the suite closer to ImageMagick-style media plumbing than to an authoring environment.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

SWFTools matters to package nerds as a preservation-era media package: it packages a historically important but now legacy format, bundles many utilities with optional library dependencies, and keeps old Flash workflows scriptable on modern Unix-like systems.

Zeitleiste

0.0.1: Initial release recorded in the official ChangeLog.
0.3.0: png2swf and wav2swf added, alongside Flash 6 compressed SWF support.
0.5.0: swfc and swfbbox added.
0.9.0: as3compile added and SWF/Flash 8 and 9 support expanded.
0.9.2: Poppler integration work started for pdf2swf.

Related projects

Adobe Flash SWF is the file format SWFTools manipulates.
xpdf and later Poppler appear in the official ChangeLog as PDF parser lineage for pdf2swf.
LAME, zlib, freetype, and other media libraries appear in the build and feature history.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit
`as3compile`	cli	globales Executable
`font2swf`	cli	globales Executable
`png2swf`	cli	globales Executable
`swfbbox`	cli	globales Executable
`swfc`	cli	globales Executable
`swfcombine`	cli	globales Executable
`swfdump`	cli	globales Executable
`swfextract`	cli	globales Executable
`swfrender`	cli	globales Executable
`swfstrings`	cli	globales Executable
`wav2swf`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-08-04

Manager-Version0.9.2

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://github.com/swftools/swftools

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
InfoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/swftools/swftoolsnone Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:swftools
Version	0.9.2
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/swftools
Homepage	https://github.com/swftools/swftools
Repository	https://github.com/swftools/swftools
Lizenz	GPL-2.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://distfiles.macports.org/swftools/swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	swftools
Version Scheme	0
Revision	1
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

swftools

nix profile install nixpkgs#swftools

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Swftools

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sw/swftools/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

MacPorts95%

swftools

sudo port install swftools

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Swftools

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: graphics/swftools/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/swftools.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

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