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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 3D PDF support (AKA asymptote support)
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:59:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2B9D8F.9070603@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0906062159150.12947@MacBook-2.local>

Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> Dear Hans,
> 
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>>> a draft for an analog of LaTeX movie15 package for including Adobe 
>>> Reader
>>> compatible 3d models into PDF files is at
>>
>> i'll have a look at it next week; the interface needs some more 
>> thinking from my side; in principle we should not use externalfigure 
>> here but the rendering mechanism
> 
> BTW, the mechanism ConTeXt uses to include movies (it served me as a 
> starting point) is described in part "13.4 Movies" of PDF 32000-1:2008 
> ISO/Adobe spec, but preceded there with the following note:
>  The features described in this sub-clause are obsolescent and their use
>  is no longer recommended.
>  They are superseded by the general multimedia framework described in
>  13.2, ???Multimedia.???
> 
> Thus even more thinking may be desirable...

well, the multimedia support has been there already for a while in 
context (not documented because when i played with it those parts of 
acrobat reader were not that stable yet) ... (x-res-50 uses some of it)
and it's for this reason that the code sits in cont-new.tex


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      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-07 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 16:14 Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 17:32 ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 18:02   ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 19:21     ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 19:28     ` Renaud Aubin
2009-06-05 19:58       ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-05 20:15       ` luigi scarso
2009-06-06  4:07         ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-06  7:43           ` luigi scarso
2009-06-05 21:39 ` Hans Hagen
2009-06-06 18:06   ` Michail Vidiassov
2009-06-07 10:59     ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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