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<pre>Hi!</pre>
<pre>I believed Quicktime movies are not the best option for embedding</pre>
<pre>animations in a PDF document: normally compilation with pdftex runs O.K.</pre>
<pre>but when you click on the field to display the movie nothing happens...</pre>
<pre>in particular, my Acrobat Reader 4.0 (RH7.2) just complains that it has not</pre>
<pre>the necessary plugin to display the animation...</pre>
<pre>however I did an experiment using the hyperref package and an animation in avi</pre>
<pre>format, with a command like this:</pre>
<pre>\href{run:movie.avi}{text or figure to be linked to the movie...}</pre>
<pre>compilation was O.K. although the movie was not embedded into the PDF.</pre>
<pre>When I click on the link my system just calls xanim to display the movie,</pre>
<pre>which should be available in the same directory as the PDF.</pre>
<pre>I also tried the PDF in windows and everything was fine with the exception</pre>
<pre>that windows calls its media player to show the movie.</pre>
<pre>Best regards from Portugal.</pre>
<pre>--
Prof. Orlando Camargo Rodríguez
Área Departamental de Física
FCT - Universidade do Algarve</pre>
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