Is it possible to embed animated GIFs in PDFs

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Is it possible to embed animated GIFs in PDFs  And how might I go about such a thing  are there any dangers I should be aware of  For some more details on why I think it s a good thing and how it helps feel free to see this post  I didn t think it was appropriately well-formed enough for SE  As an example - I d like to put this into a description of quicksort     This animation is from wikimedia

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I haven t tested it but apparently you can add quicktime animations to a pdf  no idea why   So the solution would be to export the animated gif to quicktime and add it to the pdf   Here the solution that apparently works    Open the GIF in Quicktime and save as MOV  Apparently it works with other formats too  you ll have to try it out    Insert the MOV into the PDF  with Adobe InDesign  make sure to set Object  Interactive  film options   Embed in PDF  - It should work with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC too  see link Save the PDF    See this link  German

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I just had to figure this out for a client presentation and found a work around to having the GIF play a few times by making a fake loop      Open the Gif in Photoshop View the timeline Select all the instances and duplicate them  I did it 10 times  Export as a MP4 Open up your PDF and go to TOOLS  RICH MEDIA ADD VIDEO  then place the video of your gif where you would want it A window comes up  be sure to click on SHOW ADVANCED OPTIONS  Choose your file and right underneath select ENABLE WHEN CONTENT IS VISIBLE   Hope this helps

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Another possibility is LaTeX   animate package  You will need to provide the individual frames making the animation  The resulting pdf does NOT require any plugin  the animation is shown in Adobe reader

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It s not really possible  You could  but if you re going to it would be useless without appropriate plugins  You d be better using some other form  PDF s are used to have a consolidated output to printers and the screen  so animations won t work without other resources  and then it s not really a PDF

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I do it for beamer presentations    provide tmp-0 png through tmp-34 png   usepackage animate    begin frame  Torque Generating Mechanism     animategraphics loop controls width  linewidth  12  output tmp-  0  34   end frame

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Having the ability to add small animations to a PDF  portable document format  independent of application software  hardware  and operating systems  would make it the perfect solution for making extremely useful user guides   Some text  some images  and some animations videos  all in one file that can be read by anybody on any computer   As of acrobat pro version x  a gif can be added under Tools   Insert from File   But the gif wont play  it only shows the first image

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Maybe use LaTeX and try something like this   documentclass a4paper  article   usepackage 3D  movie15   usepackage hyperref   begin document   includemovie      poster      toolbar       3Daac 60 000000  3Droll 0 000000  3Dc2c 0 000000 2 483000 0 000000      3Droo 2 483000  3Dcoo 0 000000 0 000000 0 000000      3Dlights CAD     linewidth   linewidth  Bob u3d   end document    where Bob3d u3d is a sample virtual reality file I had  This works  or did  for movies  and I expect it might work for gifs too

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You can use Tikz pgfplots for creating animations in beamer  http   www texample net tikz examples tag animations

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