How to add a gif file to my LaTeX file? [duplicate]

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Convert gif image to png on the fly

I have an image file -- a gif file, which is the graph of a function. How do I add it to a LaTeX file? Will it come out OK in the subsequent pdf file?

Answer 1

Use movie15 package. For example:

% in preamble
\usepackage{movie15}
% in documenet
\includemovie{1cm}{1cm}{ani.gif}

PDFLaTeX is needed, and you must use Adobe Reader with certain media player plug-in. Thus it often fails.

Another method is to use animate package. You have to convert the animated gif to separate images first, using ImageMagick:

convert foo.gif foo.png

You may probably get foo-0.png, foo-1.png, ..., foo-18.png.

Then include the graphics:

\animategraphics{12}{foo-}{0}{18}

This would sometimes make bad result, if the GIF is optimized. See manual of animate for more options.

Answer 2

needs pdflatex -shell-escape ... and an installed program convert which is available for all plarforms

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}

\epstopdfDeclareGraphicsRule{.gif}{png}{.png}{convert gif:#1 png:\OutputFile}
\AppendGraphicsExtensions{.gif}

\begin{document}

  \includegraphics{demo.eps}\qquad
  \includegraphics{knuth-tex.gif}

\end{document}

Answer 3

You want to \usepackage{graphicx}, then \includegraphics{your.gif}. pdflatex doesn't like gifs so much, so it would be better to convert it (or resave from the application that created it) to PNG.