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<P>Hello. I have some .gif files I'd like to include in .pdf and/or .html output
files/file. I got the impression from AlexG's posting on
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34774/including-gif-image-in-pdflatex-document/34776#34776
on the Internet that I may need to first convert the .gif files to .png files
using the "convert" command-line tool of ImageMagick; and perhaps that might be
necessary because pdftex can't work with .gif files.---Do you agree with this
latter idea? I downloaded something to make ImageMagick's file converter program
called "convert" work from http://wiseconvert.com/d/imageconverter.php, but so
far haven't succeeded in making such a conversion.---In a command-prompt window
in Windows XP Home Edition I entered a command of the form "convert input.gif
output.png" in the directory where a file with a name of the form input.gif was
located. But that didn't seem to work for me. I also tried using the Image
Converter facility built into my Firefox Web browser by the installation of
ImageMagick's "convert" or else something to do with it. The result of that
process was "The file has not been converted due to errors." Maybe something to
do with ImageMagick's "convert" was installed in my Firefox Web browser to
access an online program which is supposed to make the file conversion because I
saw after I selected my .gif file an indication that it could have been uploaded
to the Internet. I wonder if the size of the .gif figure needed to be specified
somehow. I read that another ImageMagick program called something like identity,
identify, or identifier may be able to give the size of a figure in some
dimension.</P>
<P>On a Linux-loaded computer with TeX Live (probably 2012) installed on it I
have also installed the software package called "animate" from a Comprehensive
TeX Archive Network (CTAN) Web site. So on a .tex file I'd like to be able to
run a latex, pdftex, and/or pdflatex command and then a latex2html command to
produce .pdf and/or .html output files containing some animated figures (From
the Internet I think I may have seen one .pdf file produced by someone else
which included animation.).</P>
<P>1) Which program should I be using at the first stage for that purpose,
latex, pdftex, or pdflatex?</P>
<P>2) Please provide sample code in the .tex file appropriate for animated
figures in the .pdf and/or .html output files. In the case of a .html output
file containing an animated figure I would expect to enter a latex2html command
on the .tex file. In the case of a .pdf output file containing an animated
figure I suppose I might need to enter a pdftex or pdflatex command. However, I
don't think I have used pdflatex and might not even have it installed on my
computer, unless it automatically is included in TeX Live 2012.</P>
<P>3) How may I succeed in getting ImageMagick's "convert" program to convert
.gif files to .png files, assuming that is necessary?</P>
<P>Pat</P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>