<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 20 Oct 2005, at 10:34 am, Alexandros D. Gotsis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Dear Jonathan et al.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 13px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">I was trying to use movie15.sty with XeTeX to include quicktime movies in the slides for my lectures (in greek) and I could not get it work. It seems that movie15 needs hyperref (and graphicx) in this case, but, even then, it does not add the movie to the pdf file. Movie15 works well with LaTeX<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(with or without hyperref) in my system. Is anything known on this?</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Sorry, there's no chance of this working in this way at present. I haven't looked at movie15.sty, but it must be using either (1) pdfTeX extensions or (2) driver-specific \special commands for something like dvipdfmx in order to include the movies. And neither of these mechanisms will work with XeTeX: (1) the pdfTeX extensions are not present, as XeTeX is based on e-TeX and not on pdfTeX; (2) the xdv2pdf driver can't embed movies because the Quartz graphics APIs that it uses to generate PDF don't support this.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I can think of a possible workaround, if you really want to combine XeTeX-generated text with movies: create PDF files with the movies embedded, using pdfTeX, and then place these into the XeTeX document. I have not tried this, but it's possible that embedding PDFs like this may preserve all the features of the embedded document, including its movie.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If this doesn't work (I don't know if movies will survive the Quartz-based PDF-inclusion process), then you could also try inverting the process: generate the text for your slides in PDF form using XeTeX, and then use pdfTeX to assemble the final slides, combining the text from XeTeX (is this what the pdfpages package lets you do?) with the movies you want to add.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Not a simple and automatic solution, I'm afraid, and perhaps more effort than you want to spend.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In the longer term, the real answer is a new XeTeX-to-PDF driver based on a more full-featured PDF-generating engine.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jonathan</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>