From Mike.Lawrence at dal.ca  Wed Aug  8 18:36:58 2007
From: Mike.Lawrence at dal.ca (Mike Lawrence)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:36:58 -0300
Subject: [Rd] SWF animation method
In-Reply-To: <71257D09F114DA4A8E134DEAC70F25D3092865BF@groamrexm03.amer.pfizer.com>
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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: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Romain Francois
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:11 AM
>> To: Mike Lawrence
>> Cc: r-devel at 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/
>
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[Rd] SWF animation method
Mike Lawrence