The new package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon work its way to your favorite mirror.
Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: animate Author's name: Alexander Grahn Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate Summary description: Creating PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF animations from sets of graphics files or from inline graphics, such as latex-picture, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or just from typeset text.
It supports the usual PDF making workflows, i. e. pdfLaTeX and LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf (Ghostscript) / Distiller. The resulting PDF can be viewed in current Adobe Readers on all supported platforms. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/animate . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=animate (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .