How to read pdf's with animations

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

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!

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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[ToddAndMargo]

On 07/09/2018 09:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  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!
>  
>  Best wishes,
>  Ranjan
>   
Hi Ranjan,

If you would post an example, I will run it against my several PDF
readers,

-T

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 21:41:40 -0700 ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 07/09/2018 09:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > 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!
>  > 
>  > Best wishes,
>  > Ranjan
>  > 
>  
>  Hi Ranjan,
>  
>  If you would post an example, I will run it against my several PDF
>  readers,
>  
>  -T 
Thanks! If you go here, and extract the following:

https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/20491573/Stat_A...

there is a file in there called stadoc.pdf which has the animation on Page 5, Movie 1. You
can see the controls in evince, okular and zathura.

Many thanks,
Ranjan

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[ToddAndMargo]

On 07/10/2018 02:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 21:41:40 -0700 ToddAndMargo
> <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> > On 07/09/2018 09:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 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!
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Ranjan
> >>
> >
> > Hi Ranjan,
> >
> > If you would post an example, I will run it against my several PDF
> > readers,
> >
> > -T
>  
>  Thanks! If you go here, and extract the following:
>  
>
> https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/20491573/Stat_A...
>  
>  there is a file in there called stadoc.pdf which has the animation on Page 5, Movie 1.
> You can see the controls in evince, okular and zathura.
>  
>  Many thanks,
>  Ranjan 
Hi Ranjan,

No animation with PDF Studio Pro or Foxit Reader under Wine staging.

I sent page 5 off to PDF Studio tech support and asked them
how to view the animation.

:'(

-T

[ToddAndMargo]

On 07/10/2018 12:24 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>  On 07/10/2018 02:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 21:41:40 -0700 ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com&gt; 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 07/09/2018 09:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> 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!
> >>>
> >>> Best wishes,
> >>> Ranjan
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Ranjan,
> >>
> >> If you would post an example, I will run it against my several PDF
> >> readers,
> >>
> >> -T
> >
> > Thanks! If you go here, and extract the following:
> >
> >
> https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/20491573/Stat_A...
>
> >
> >
> > there is a file in there called stadoc.pdf which has the animation on 
> > Page 5, Movie 1. You can see the controls in evince, okular and zathura.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Ranjan
>  
>  Hi Ranjan,
>  
>  No animation with PDF Studio Pro or Foxit Reader under Wine staging.
>  
>  I sent page 5 off to PDF Studio tech support and asked them
>  how to view the animation.
>  
>  :'(
>  
>  -T 

It has been submitted as an upgrade to PDF Studio.  So
coming soon to a theater near you!

Qoppa has a free viewer of PDF Studio.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/09/2018 09:27 PM, 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?) 
None of the open source PDF viewers support JavaScript like that yet.

[Ed Greshko]

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. 

Also, don't know if this is good enough, but you may want to consider pdfdetach to
extract the embedded files from the pdf.

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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:40:56 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; 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.


>  
>  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

[John Pilkington]

On 10/07/18 10:22, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:40:56 +0800 Ed Greshko
> <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; 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. 
dnf is fussy.  Tried google?
>  
>  
> >
> > 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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[Rick Stevens]

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&gt; 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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[John Pilkington]

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&gt; 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?'

John P

> >> 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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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:53:27 +0100 John Pilkington <johnpilk222(a)gmail.com&gt; 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&gt;
> 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