[Tuglist] Animation graphics in Pdfscreen - help

Radhakrishnan CV tuglist@tug.org.in
Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:22:55 +0530 (IST)


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 at 17:39, H.S.Rai wrote:

   On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, satheesh kumar wrote:
   
   >  I want to include some animation graphics (e.g. Gif
   >  file) in a slide presentation. Is it possible to do
   >  with pdflatex? If possible, where can I find some
   >  sample latex files?
   
   Though I am not answering your problem, but I wish to know about
   its possibility. Have you seen it on .ps or .pdf. As I understand
   latex is document prepration system. and we cannot have animation
   in books or in documents.

Unfortunately, animated gif support is not available in pdfTeX. 
pdfTeX supports graphic formats like metapost, pdf, tiff, jpg, png 
only. 

So far as the dvi => ps => pdf is concerned, TeX damn care about the
graphic file format. It simply leaves sufficient space to put a
graphic in the document assigning the burden of rendering and
printing to the concerned dvi/printer driver (in teTeX, it is
xdvi/dvips). Except vTeX, none of the drivers support animated gif.  
I remember seeing a pdf document with animated gif graphic in the
www.tug.org's seminar pages. You can have a look there.
Incidentally, vTeX has a free Linux version available.

Second option is the usage of metapost for animation. I guess, the 
type of animation that Satheesh requires might be possible with 
metapost. For experiments with metapost and pdfTeX please visit 
van Dongen's (of Cork University) metapost page at:

 http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~dongen/mpost/mpost.html

Ross More has also produced a beautiful animated pdf page with the 
help of xy-pic and TeXPower, please look at Ross Moore's home page 
at:

 http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~ross/

Sorry, I have lost the exact URL.

-- 
Radhakrishnan