On 07/10/2018 02:22 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:40:56 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/10/18 12:27, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>> I have a pdf with animations. However, when I try to read it in evince or 
>>> okular, in the first case, nothing happens with the animation. In the case 
>>> of okular, I get a blank gray square where the animation is. How do I read 
>>> this usign OSS? (I did not want to go get acroread: are there any other 
>>> options?)
>>>
>>> Many thanks for any advice!
>>
>>
>> I don't know if the circumstances match exactly.  But doing a bit of 
>> googling found a
>> suggestion that installing phonon-qt5-vlc (available in rpmfusion) may get 
>> things
>> working.  They did for at least one person but they didn't specify what type 
>> of
>> animation was in the PDF. 
> 
> Sorry, but is this available in F28? I get No match.

It's there:

        # dnf list "*phonon*"
        ...
        Available Packages
        phonon-backend-vlc.x86_64
0.9.1-4.fc28                               rpmfusion-free

So it's in the rpmfusion-free repo.

>> Also, don't know if this is good enough, but you may want to consider 
>> pdfdetach to
>> extract the embedded files from the pdf.
>>
> 
> Thanks! I will try that, but I was hoping for a solution inside the pdf 
> reader.
> 
> Ranjan
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