Re: FW: making movie from eps files

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:35:12AM -0600, Joe Koski wrote:
> 
> Op, sorry I didn't mention it. I'm using Linux (64 bit
> Ubuntu).
> 
> Atis
> 
> --- Joe Koski <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Atis,
> > 
> > What computer are you using? It makes a difference
> > in what's available to do
> > this. For example, on my Mac I use a program called
> > GraphicConverter, but it
> > is Mac specific.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > on 10/23/05 5:53 PM, Kocsis Attila at
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all!
> > > 
> > > It may not be the apropiate place to ask, but I
> > make a
> > > try...
> > > 
> > > I have produced eps files from which I would like
> > to
> > > make a movie. I found some scripts on the net, but
> > > they didn't work, so has anybody dealt a problem
> > like
> > > this? 
> > > 

ps files, but it should work for eps as well. You need imagemagick and
gifsicle, which seems to be non-free or worse... this is the Makefile I was
using to produce an animated gif, shows great in OpenOffice (ooimpress) and
Mozilla.

FILES=ET_mat01.gif ET_mat02.gif ET_mat03.gif ET_mat04.gif ET_mat05.gif \
        ET_mat06.gif ET_mat07.gif ET_mat08.gif ET_mat09.gif ET_mat10.gif \
        ET_mat11.gif ET_mat12.gif ET_mat13.gif ET_mat14.gif ET_mat15.gif \
        ET_mat16.gif ET_mat17.gif ET_mat18.gif ET_mat19.gif ET_mat20.gif \
        ET_mat21.gif ET_mat22.gif ET_mat23.gif ET_mat24.gif ET_mat25.gif \
        ET_mat26.gif ET_mat27.gif ET_mat28.gif ET_mat29.gif ET_mat30.gif \
        ET_mat31.gif ET_mat32.gif ET_mat33.gif ET_mat34.gif ET_mat35.gif \
        ET_mat36.gif ET_mat37.gif ET_mat38.gif ET_mat39.gif ET_mat40.gif \
        ET_mat41.gif ET_mat42.gif ET_mat43.gif ET_mat44.gif ET_mat45.gif \
        ET_mat46.gif ET_mat47.gif ET_mat48.gif ET_mat49.gif ET_mat50.gif \
        ET_mat51.gif ET_mat52.gif ET_mat53.gif ET_mat54.gif ET_mat55.gif \
        ET_mat56.gif ET_mat57.gif ET_mat58.gif ET_mat59.gif ET_mat60.gif

all: anim

%.gif: %.ps
        convert $< $@

anim: $(FILES)
        gifsicle --delay 10 $(FILES) > anim.gif


Christian



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