Render Flash (SWF) frame as image (PDF,PNG,JPG)

Question

I would like to write a python script that takes a bunch of swf files and renders them to individual image files.

Each swf file has just one frame (text, pictures etc.)

Answer 1

Sometimes SWFRender is stuck at very heavy files, especially when producing 300dpi+ images. In this case Gnash may help:

gnash -s --screenshot last --screenshot-file output.png -1 -r1 input.swf

here we dump a last frame of a movie to file output.png disabling sound processing and exiting after the frame is rendered. Also we can specify the scale factor here or use

-j width -k height

to specify the exact size of resulting image.