On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:53:27 +0100 John Pilkington <johnpilk222(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/07/18 17:38, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 07/10/2018 02:22 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:40:56 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)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.
I had suggested asking google. I tried 'phonon-qt5-vlc rpm fc28' and
the first 5 hits were for phonon-qt5-backend-vlc-0.9.1-4.fc28.x86_64.rpm
from rpmfusion.
Quick and easy. This is specifically for qt5. The question now is
'does it do the job?'
Thanks! Unfortunately, no.
Ranjan