Swfmill

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swfmill
Original author(s) Daniel Fischer [1] AKA Daniel Turing
Developer(s) Daniel Cassidy
Initial releaseApril 6, 2005;18 years ago (2005-04-06) [2]
Stable release
0.3.6 / October 20, 2017;6 years ago (2017-10-20)
Repository
Written in C++ and XSLT
License GPL 2
Website www.swfmill.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

swfmill is a free software (GPL v2) command line tool that generates SWF files.

It is an XML-to-SWF and SWF-to-XML processor. It uses SWFML, an XML dialect closely modeled after the SWF format. It comes with XSLT capabilities, and a more accessible dialect of SWFML to generate SWF files.

swfmill may be used to generate SWF files that contain library assets for use with MTASC. Currently, it imports images (JPEG, PNG), fonts (TrueType), SVG and other SWF files. It may also place assets on the stage, create movieclips with multiple frames, textfields, among other things.

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References

  1. Fischer, Daniel. "swfmill swf2xml and xml2swf". swfmill. iterative.org. Archived from the original on 2006-07-18.
  2. Fischer, Daniel. "swfmill releases". swfmill. iterative.org. Archived from the original on 2006-07-19.