CTAN has a new package: fldigigal
The fldigigal package uses the rmannot package (Adobe Distiller workflow required) to create, what I am calling, an AcroTeX Flash Digital Gallery; that is, a Flash slide show that displays a series of digitals (PNG, JPG, GIF). The document author describes the digitals (path and caption) from the LaTeX source, on compilation, fldigigal write an XML file, which Distiller embeds in the PDF. The digitals may be embedded in the PDF, or reside on the Internet (reducing filesize). Three layouts of are offered at this time: vertical thumbnails, horizontal thumbnails, or no thumbnails. The home page for this package is http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/fldigigal.html
This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fldigigal . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fldigigal (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
fldigigal – Create a Flash slide show of digital photos
The package uses the rmannot package (thus requiring an Adobe Distiller workflow) to create what the author calls “an AcroTeX Flash Digital Gallery”; that is, a Flash slide show that displays a series of digital images (PNG, JPG or GIF formats). The document author describes the digital images (path and caption) from the LaTeX source; on compilation, fldigigal writes an XML file, which Distiller embeds in the PDF. The digital images may be embedded in the PDF, or be accessed remotely (reducing filesize). Three layouts are offered: vertical thumbnails, horizontal thumbnails, or no thumbnails.
This package has become obsolete after December 2020. Since December 2020, Adobe no longer supports Flash player (SWF, FLV). This package uses a custom SWF file (fdg_ht1.swf, eg); as a result this package will no longer function in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. The package will continue to produce PDFs as designed, but only if built using Acrobat XI (or a version Acrobat prior to 2021) and viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader XI (or a version of Reader prior 2021).
| Package | fldigigal |
| Version | 0.6 2020-08-08 |
| Copyright | 2010–2020 D. P. Story |
| Maintainer | Donald P. Story |