===================== The animate Package ===================== Author: Alexander Grahn Description: This package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF animations from sets of (vector) graphics files or from inline (vector) graphics, such as LaTeX-picture, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or just from typeset text. It supports the usual PDF making workflows, i. e. pdfLaTeX and LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf (Ghostscript). The resulting PDF can be viewed in current Adobe Readers on all supported platforms. The first release of `animate' was based on the work by Jan Holecek and Petr Sojka: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xholecek/tex/pdfanim.xhtml Meanwhile, the package was rewritten to use Optional Content Groups (OCG), aka PDF-Layers. OCG-based animations are fully supported by Adobe Reader 8, but have some performance issues. Playback is usually slower in Reader 8 than in previous versions, which is probably a bug. The old, non-OCG approach is still available if the package file `animate-noocg.sty' is used instead of `animate.sty'. However, options `autoplay', `autopause' and `autoresume' are not functional in Reader 8. Moreover, the animation position and the play/pause buttons are not properly reset on page change. This is due to usage restrictions that Adobe imposed on some important JavaScript methods in Reader 8. Note, this file only gives a summary of usage and available package and command options. Please refer to the documentation `animate.pdf' in the `doc/' directory for details and examples. Keywords: include, portable, animation, animating, embed, animated, inline graphics, vector graphics, graphics files, LaTeX, dvips, ps2pdf, pdfLaTeX, PDF, JavaScript, PSTricks, pgf, TikZ, LaTeX-picture, Adobe Reader Usage: \usepackage[]{animate} -- Package options: autopause, autoplay, autoresume, controls, buttonsize=, screenbg=, buttonbg=, loop, palindrome, step, poster=[first | none | last] \animategraphics[]{}{}{}{} \begin{animateinline}[]{} ... typeset material ... \newframe[] ... typeset material ... \newframe*[] ... typeset material ... \end{animateinline} -- Command options: width=, height=, depth=, scale=, autopause, autoplay, autoresume, controls, buttonsize=, screenbg=, buttonbg=, loop, palindrome, step, poster=[first | none | last] Requirements: pdfeTeX, version >= 1.20 Adobe Reader, version >= 6 Installation: Put the file animate.sty to a place where TeX can find it. License: This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html for the details of that license.