[pdftex] [CTAN] Update: animate

[Alexander Grahn]

James,

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:22:43PM -0700, James Quirk wrote:
>Victor,
>
>Now that AR8 is available for Linux I've been able to revisit the
>problem your were having with the animate package, back in March.
>Adobe have acknowledge the problem as a bug. Specifically,
>the getfield.display property cannot be written to in a page-open 
>(/PO) event; unless, as you noted, the PDF is forms-enabled.
>For details, see the thread "AR8.1.1 Backwards Incompatibility"
>at http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc433df and
>"known issue #2" at:
>
>http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/09/known_issues_with_adobe_reader_1.html
>  
>Cheers,
>
>James

The `buttonSetIcon' Form Field method is also affected. It required
Forms-Enabled if used in the JavaScript action of a /PO Event). This
was the original reason for my migrating to OCGs instead of further
manipulating button icons.

Regards,
Alexander