Re: Page Duration

2001-07-12 Thread Pedro Jorge Caridade

Huppy

I've manage to put the page duration working
The only thing that I've done is to use acroread 3.0 :))

Pedro

Pedro Jorge Caridade wrote:

 Hi Stephan

 Yes, that's what I supposed that was happening...
 I tried on acrobat reader 5.0 for windows and it still did not work, so the
 bug is still activated...
 Sorry the trouble,
 Pedro

 Stephan Lehmke wrote:

  On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:48:51 +0100, Pedro Jorge Caridade wrote:
  
   I'm having some strange problem with pageDuration command. In the
   fulldemo.tex file there is a \pageDuration{0.5}  in the divisibility
   example. However, when I put acroread in full screen mode I don't see
   any effect? Is this normal or do I have some problem with my acroread?
 
  It's a known bug in all variants of acroread 4.05.
 
  As far as I could test, it works with acrobat (the commercial
  product) and acroread versions 4.0 and below.
 
  Don't know whether the bug is corrected in acroread 5.0,
  but I'd be interested in any feedback.
 
  regards
  Stephan
 
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Page Duration

2001-06-26 Thread Pedro Jorge Caridade

Hi everybody

I'm having some strange problem with pageDuration command. In the
fulldemo.tex file there is a \pageDuration{0.5}  in the divisibility
example. However, when I put acroread in full screen mode I don't see
any effect? Is this normal or do I have some problem with my acroread?

Best regards, Pedro

P.S. I'm using fulldemo.pdf from texpower home page.




Page duration problem

2000-11-08 Thread Pascal Kockaert

Hi dear TeXpower users,

I'm trying to use \pageDuration in order to animate some part of a PDF file. 

What I do is to put \pageDuration{0} on pages which have to change quicly
then put a \pageDuration{} to stop the evolution. 

Unfortunaltely, the page doesn't change when viewing the file in acrobat
reader 4.05b. 
What I do, then is to go in preferences\fullscreen and check "Advance Every
..seconds"

This way, the page durations are respected except that the \pageDuration{}
doesn't work. The page number is increased after the smallest delay between
\pageDuration and "Advance every".

Bad news is that "Advance every" can't be increased over 60 seconds. This
means that I can't stay more than one minute on the same screen.

So, my questions are :
- is this a feature/bug of Reader which can't be avoided ?
- is there a more powerfull command than \pageDuration that could force a
break in the file ?

More generally, is there a way to animate some part of a picture without
using /Dur ? I mean something like animated gifs or png equivalent or
embedded java code ?

Thanks for any answer,
Pascal





Re: Page duration problem

2000-11-08 Thread Stephan Lehmke

[First of all, to all readers of this list who are wondering
whether maybe TeXPower development has died in July: v0.9
is underway, but at this moment, I'm putting the final touch 
to my PhD thesis and giving a lecture, so I have very little
spare time for development. I'm afraid the next release will
have to wait for Feb 2001, when the winter term ends.
If anyone feels daring enough  and competent to read the raw code, 
I'm willing to privately send the current development version,
which seems to be stable enough (at least I'm using it for
my lecture slides), but no documentation and no support
at all.
For the same reasons, my answering time on this list is 
slow at the moment; I'm trying to reduce my email backlog,
but without much success :-| ]

On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:08:20 +0100, Pascal Kockaert wrote:

 I'm trying to use \pageDuration in order to animate some part of a PDF file. 
 
 What I do is to put \pageDuration{0} on pages which have to change quicly

Better use something like \pageDuration{0.01}; it seems a value of 0
will cause flickering on some configurations while a positive
value will cause acroread to always wait until a page is built
completely before switching screens.

 then put a \pageDuration{} to stop the evolution. 
 
 Unfortunaltely, the page doesn't change when viewing the file in acrobat
 reader 4.05b. 

Yes, after asking on the pdftex list and in comp.text.pdf,
I have it from the experts that this is indeed a bug in all
4.05 versions of acroread (I personally tested about 10 variants
on 4 systems). When I need animations, I use acrobat (the
commercial product) or acroread 4 (without .05). Unfortunately,
acroread 4 seems to have problems extracting fonts on Linux
(never had problems with acroread 4 on Sun Solaris systems).


 So, my questions are :
 - is this a feature/bug of Reader which can't be avoided ?

see above

 - is there a more powerfull command than \pageDuration that could force a
 break in the file ?

dunno

 
 More generally, is there a way to animate some part of a picture without
 using /Dur ? I mean something like animated gifs or png equivalent or
 embedded java code ?

Might be. I think I heard of an "animated png" variant, but I don't
remember whether it really exists or is only planned, and whether
acroread and pdftex support it. Maybe you'll get a competent 
answer from the pdftex list or the newsgroup comp.text.pdf.
The adobe website also has a forum, but the one time I looked
into it, it seemed to have a very low level and not to be read
by developers.

regards
Stephan

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  Stephan Lehmke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Fachbereich Informatik, LS I   Tel. +49 231 755 6434 
  Universitaet Dortmund  FAX  6555
  D-44221 Dortmund, Germany