Thanks for kindly taking the time to write to me again, Nasser M. Abbasi. I
did not produce the .gif (Graphic Interchange Format) files I have recently
been using. And I have no 21st century experience making an animated .gif
file. I have been concerned with how to place a couple of animations in
.html and .pdf files. Your answer was good for placing them in a .html
file. Thanks for kindly providing it for me. I used the programs LaTeX and
LaTeX2HTML in producing the .html file containing those animations.
I have found placing animations in a .pdf (Portable Document Format) file
beginning with a .gif animation challenging. At this stage my result in
having animations in a .pdf file appears quite primitive compared to putting
the animations in a .html file. Nevertheless here I will describe some of
what I have done so far in that direction. None of the following writing
has anything to do with LaTeX2HTML. But, if it is okay with the people in
the LaTeX2HTML users' group, perhaps someone in it can write some helpful
advice for me. If there is a TeX users' group for the use of the program
pdflatex, that would probably be a more appropriate group in which to
discuss the following matters.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User: Derbeth/javalatex I learned that
pdflatex does not support the use of .gif images. From what I have read on
the Internet at least one way to deal with this matter is to convert the
.gif images in an animated .gif file to a series of .png (Portable Network
Graphics) images, one for each frame in the .gif file containing an
animation. Following the advice on the Web page
http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_create_animation_(Linux)%3F I
installed the free program ImageMagick in a Windows XP Home Edition
operating system and subsequently used a command in a command-prompt of the
following form to effect the conversion from an animated .gif file to a
series of .png files:
convert MyFile.gif MyFile%05d.png
. The result was that gratefully many .png images were produced with names
of the form MyFile00000.png, MyFile00001.png, MyFile00002.png, et cetera
(Previously I had downloaded something from ImagicMagick's Web site which
appeared to provide online conversion of a file from the .gif to the .png
format in my Mozilla Firefox Web browser. By clicking on "File Tools" right
on my Firefox Web browser and then selecting "Image Converter" among the
subsequent choices I could have access to that capability. But that
conversion did not work for me.).
Previously I had installed Alexander Grahn's animate software package for
TeX Live in an openSUSE-12.2, Linux operating system. I think I obtained it
via the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) Web site
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/animate/doc/animate.pdf.
Following some of probably his or else Jim Hefferon's advice I had
downloaded the file animate.zip and in my case extracted its contents in the
directory /usr/share/texmf. Fortunately most, if not all of the software
requirements for the animate software package appear to be contained in a
modern version of TeX Live.---Unless this was done for me in the process of
updating openSUSE-12.2 software, at least I haven't knowingly and especially
downloaded and installed any new software packages other than the animate
package to add to my installation of TeX Live lately.
For the purpose of making the .pdf output file containing animated figures I
followed much of Alexander Grahn's advice and input or else already had
commands of the following form into my .tex file:
\documentstyle[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{animate,graphicx}
\begin{document}
In \hyperref[ref]{Figure (Fig. 1)}{Figure (Fig. 1)}{}{MyFigure}
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\animategraphics{30}{MyFile}{00000}{00097}
%for 30 frames/second each with a name of the form MyFile00000.png,
MyFile00001.png, ........, MyFile00097.png
%Figure caption here
\label{MyFigure}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
.....
.....
\end{document}
.
Then I executed the command of the form "pdflatex MyFile.tex". Following
that execution I eventually opened the output file with a name of the form
MyFile.pdf in Acrobat Reader 9.5.1 and Adobe Reader X 10.1.4. I think in
each case I had to click on an animated image in the .pdf file to start its
animation after seeing the image of I think a small, white, right hand with
an upward-pointing index finger on it. But after that first clicking a
popup window appeared containing the message "Please Note: Click 'sign' to
fill out and sign this form," a message which did not apply to my .pdf file.
After closing that window by perhaps clicking on an "X" in its
upper-right-hand corner, I think the animation began. I think the animation
was executed once for each click on an animated figure in the .pdf file.
(It seems like I might have seen somebody else's .pdf file containing an
animated figure which did not require my clicking on it to get that
animation started. That animation might have only been the drawing of a
colored curve. And that animation might have continued in a repetitive
fashion. If so, I think I like those behaviors better for a reader of a
.pdf document than the ones I obtained which I report here.). There were
some problems:
1) The vertical dimension appeared to be compressed compared to the
horizontal dimension. The animations each proceeded from left to right. By
the time the final frame was reached in the animation the vertical dimension
was obviously highly compressed compared to the horizontal dimension. And I
think the horizontal dimension of an object in the animation may have been
horizontally stretched in the course of the animation so that the last image
showed an object or objects which were much more horizontally stretched than
at the beginning of the animation. Right now I suppose I can't rule out the
possibility that what I saw could be explained by just the horizontal
stretching alone without any vertical compression.---The result of either
stretching in the horizontal dimension or compression in the vertical
dimension makes a circle appear as an ellipse that is longer in the
horizontal than in the vertical direction.
2) Although one to-be animated image initially had good color and
proportions between its vertical and horizontal components before starting
the animation with a click on it, I think parts of the frame images could
not be seen at all during the course of the animation.---That is during the
animation I think parts of the image could be seen; and parts of them could
not be seen.
I suppose that if by me doing things more correctly than I have up to now
that better results could imaginably be obtained for animated figures in a
.pdf file produced from an animation originally contained in a .gif file.
Pat
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From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pa...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:37 PM
To: <latex2html@tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] Requesting sample code used in a .tex file for including
animated figures, presently as .gif files, in output .pdf and/or .html
files/file, et cetera
Thanks, Nasser M. Abbasi, for kindly taking the time to promptly send me
your advice!
Your advice was basically good for me! I found that in my .tex file I
could
put a set of
commands of the form
\begin{htmlonly}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{file.gif}
\end{htmlonly}
within a LaTeX figure environment that includes the early command
\begin{figure} and the later command \end{figure}. I adjusted [scale=1.0]
some with values of "scale" less than one for the .gif figures I was
using.
A simplification in my case was that I was able to use the animated .gif
files available to me as the final, single, .gif files in each case. I
think at least one of them may have contained tens of frames, based on
what
I saw in the Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
The remaining challenge for me in having the output file made was that in
the
output, .html file produced via latex .... and latex2html .... commands on
my .tex file that the animations either sometimes or nearly always did not
have time to be completed before they were automatically restarted. The
animations appear to have been set to continually be run and rerun as long
as the .html file containing them was open in my Konqueror-4.8.5,
release-2,
Web browser; and
no clicking by me was necessary to start either of those two animations.
This problem did not occur, however, in the Mozilla Firefox-16.0.1 Web
browser. From http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237330 on the Internet
as
of February 23, 2012 this was a problem in Konqueror and/or the K Desktop
Environment (KDE) versions 4.6.2, 4.6.5, and 4.7.00. There a route to
the
trouble was reported as: "The problem is that whenever an image has a
width/height definition which is different from the image's original size,
the animation is not done," with me slightly editing the punctuation edits
in that quotation. But in my case I could report that the animation was
partly completed after having made a size change on a .gif figure. Via
Konqueror 4.8.5, release-2's "Settings, Configure Konqueror, General,
Default Web browser engine" I discovered that I was already using the
WebKit
Web-browser engine in Konqueor 4.8.5, release 2; yet the problem with .gif
animations not being completed existed. So from the quoted advice I
forced
LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML to work with versions of the .gif files in which
their
physical sizes had not been changed; to me that meant including
[scale=1.0]
in my .tex file, just as you wrote me. Gratefully the result was good
doing
that in the output, .html file when viewed in Konqueror! Apparently some
default resizing of one or two of .gif files was accomplished by latex or
latex2html because the size of one of those .gif files in the Konqueror
Web
browser on my computer screen was certainly less than the 25-inch width
"reported" for it by GIMP. So thanks, Nasser M. Abbasi. Your advice was
simple and excellent concerning the production of a .html file containing
animated .gif files!
Next, how should I produce animations in .gif files in a Portable
Document
Format (.pdf) output file, starting from a .tex file? I discovered that I
probably have pdftex and pdflatex in my installation of TeX Live in an
openSUSE-12.2, Linux operating system. So I tried entering commands of
the
form "pdftex MyFile.tex" and "pdflatex MyFile.tex" on my .tex file. The
result with pdftex was an "objection" to at least the LaTeX command
\documentstyle[a4paper,12pt]{article}. The result using pdflatex was that
a
.pdf output file with a name of the form MyFile.pdf was produced, in
addition to some conversions of some figure files which apparently
occurred.
On viewing the output, .pdf file in I think each of the programs Okular
and
Adobe Reader 9.5.1, the animated figures could not be found in it. So
please inform me how to arrange my .tex file referencing animated .gif (or
perhaps .png) files so that by executing pdftex or pdflatex or some other
program on it an output, .pdf file containing animated figures can be
produced.
Pat
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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:13 AM
To: <latex2html@tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] Requesting sample code used in a .tex file for
including
animated figures, presently as .gif files, in output .pdf and/or .html
files/file, et cetera
On 10/31/2012 2:59 AM, Pat Somerville wrote:
Pat;
This is how I add animated gif files to my Latex document for
use with l2h. I do the conversion on windows, but the resulting
animated gif file can of course be used on windows on Linux with
l2h
1) Tool needed on windows (free)
- UNFreeze to convert the GIF files to animated gif.
2) Use the above program to convert the set of gif file to one
animated gif file, say animation.gif
in Latex, do the line
-----------------------------
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{html}
\begin{document}
\begin{htmlonly}
\includegraphics[scale=1]{animation.gif}
\end{htmlonly}
\end{document}
--------------------------------------
If the files are .png files, then first convert them to
gif files and then do the above. To covert set of png files
to set of gif files, I use free program call EazyGraphics
converter to convert PNG to GIF.
--Nasser
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