Bug 403772

Summary: Support animation from latex package 'animate'
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Armand Pourcheron <armand.pourcheron>
Component: PDF backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid, armand.pourcheron, joaonetto901, m.weghorn
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/kde/okular/merge_requests/10 Version Fixed/Implemented In: 1.9
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: PDF with an example of 'animate' package animation.

Description Armand Pourcheron 2019-01-30 17:28:11 UTC 
Created attachment 117736 [details]
PDF with an example of 'animate' package animation.

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Open a PDF document which include some animation from 'animate' latex package

OBSERVED RESULT

Okular see the animation as a form or at best as static graphics

EXPECTED RESULT

Okular display the animation  (for now acroread is the only one on linux which can display this kind of animation but it's proprietary and not support anymore)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux Ubunutu 18.04

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

https://gitlab.com/agrahn/animate
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/animate

I can find quite some people on latex forum who expect this kind of feature from an open source PDF reader.

Pardon my english, thanks for your works.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2019-01-31 22:01:15 UTC 
kind of duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242617 but since the other one mentions a different latex package i'll leave this open too.
Comment 2 João Netto 2019-07-20 13:24:50 UTC 
This is now fixed and should work with Poppler > 0.79.

Link to merge request:

https://invent.kde.org/kde/okular/merge_requests/10