Thanks to Max & Romain for noting alternative methods. As mentioned in my original post, I've tried the png->imagemagick- >gif solution and was displeased with quality of the results (using default quality values at least).
Additionally, I disliked the idea (shared with the menconder method) that part of the process involved the creation of a large number of intermediary files which would then have to be deleted at some point. I know 'rm *.png' is as easy as 'rm mypdf.pdf', but the difference in forgetting to do this, from the perspective of gui file browsing at least, is significant. Mike On 8-Aug-07, at 12:20 PM, Kuhn, Max wrote: > Also, > > I've used ImageMagick's convert utility to make animated gifs. > Generate > a series of files (I used png) and then > > convert -delay 50 -page +0+0 im01.png -page +0+0 im01.png -page +0+0 > im01.png -loop 0 mov.gif > > Max > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Romain Francois >> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:11 AM >> To: Mike Lawrence >> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; John Christie >> Subject: Re: [Rd] SWF animation method >> >> Hello Mike, >> >> You might want to give "mencoder" a try. It usually comes with > mplayer. >> I did play with it a while ago and was fairly happy with the results. >> Basically, the idea was to create many jpg files somewhere, which is > not >> too hard using the %03d substitution described in ?jpeg. >> The rest is described here: >> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html >> >> Cheers, >> >> Romain >> >> PS: You might find some links in this (not really maintained) >> webpage: > >> http://addictedtor.free.fr/movies/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > LEGAL NOTICE > Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and > may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. > Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are > not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this > E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is > unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, > please inform the sender immediately. -- Mike Lawrence Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University Website: http://memetic.ca Public calendar: http://icalx.com/public/informavore/Public "The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less." - Piet Hein ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
