# swftools mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für swftools in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:swftools
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install swftools
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install swftools
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#swftools
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:swftools
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** SWF manipulation and generation tools
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/swftools/swftools>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- as3compile (Alias)
- font2swf (Alias)
- png2swf (Alias)
- swfbbox (Alias)
- swfc (Alias)
- swfcombine (Alias)
- swfdump (Alias)
- swfextract (Alias)
- swfrender (Alias)
- swfstrings (Alias)
- wav2swf (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.9.2
## 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

- <https://github.com/swftools/swftools>
- <https://github.com/swftools/swftools/blob/master/ChangeLog>
- <https://www.swftools.org/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - swftools: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sw/swftools/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - swftools: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: graphics/swftools/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/swftools.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/swftools.yml)


## Quellen

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