[texhax] Executing a script with \href{run:script.sh}

[Henrik Frisk]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, James Quirk <jjq at galcit.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Steve Schwartz wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:33 +0100, James Quirk wrote:
>> > > Have you noticed
>> > >
>> > >     http://ctan.org/pkg/rmannot
>> > >
>> > >     http://ctan.org/pkg/yt4pdf
>> > >
>> > > ? Do they help? (I don't want to try myself.)
>> > I should point out that Linux Adobe Reader (AR) has severe problems
>> > with the the playing of YouTube videos.
>>
>> I had a quick look at the rmannot web-page, since I have been interested
>> in this aspect of latex/pdf presentation for some time. Unfortunately,
>> as far as I can tell, the real stumbling block to those of us in the
>> linux community is that the pdf creation needs to be done with Acrobat
>> Distiller, so there is no way for me to create such a pdf other than
>> find a Windows machine, pay for Distiller, gather together all my source
>> files, media, files, etc, and do my work in Windows.
> No. That's just the way the author of rmannot chose to develop his
> package. If all you want to do is embed a SWF then following
> is sufficient:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \mbox{}
> \def\R{\space 0 R}\def\use{\immediate\pdfobj useobjnum}%
> \def\my #1 {\pdfobj
> reserveobjnum\expandafter\edef\csname#1\endcsname{\the\pdflastobj}}%
> \my RMend
> \my RMcontent \my RMsettings \my RMconfiguration \my RMinstances \my
> RMinstance
> \my RMasset   \my RMparams   \my RMbinding       \my RMassets    \my
> RMconfigurations
> \my RMwindow
> \pdfannot width 340pt height 0pt depth 200pt{%
> /Subtype/RichMedia/NM (crash)/F 4/RichMediaContent \RMcontent\R
> /RichMediaSettings \RMsettings\R
> }%
> \use\RMcontent   {<</Assets \RMassets\R/Configurations
> \RMconfigurations\R>>}%
> \use\RMsettings  {<</Activation <<
>   /Type/RichMediaActivation/Condition/PO/Configuration
> \RMconfiguration\space 0 R
>   /Presentation<</Style/Embeddeded>>
>>>
>>>}%
> \use\RMend {
>  /Deactivation<<
>     /Type/RichMediaDeactivation
>     /Condition /XC
>     >>
> }
> \use\RMconfiguration {<</Instances \RMinstances\R/Subtype/Flash>>}%
> \use\RMinstances {[\RMinstance\R]}%
> \use\RMinstance  {<</Asset \RMasset\R /Params \RMparams\R>>}%
> \use\RMparams    {<</Binding \RMbinding\R >>}%
> \use\RMasset     {<</FS/URL/F(http://www.youtube.com/v/qB8m85p7GsU)>>}%
> \use\RMassets    {<</Names[()\RMasset\R]>>}%
> \use\RMconfigurations  {[\RMconfiguration\R]}%
> \use\RMwindow    {<<>>} %
> \end{document}
>
> which plays ``The Colors of Infinty.''
>
I find this very interesting and this would certainly be a good option
for me. However, I could not get AR to play sound in your example
above. If I load the url in Firefox it plays it with sound. Any ideas
why? (I'm on Fedora 13 and AR 9.3.4 and Flash 10.1.85.3).

/h