I have a bunch of multi-page PDF files to be animated in various formats such as GIF, animated PDF, MP4, and animated SVG. To do so I write a batch file for each type of animations to animate those multi-page PDF files.
Only for the sake of simplicity, the code to produce a multi-page PDF is intentionally put into the animation-specific batch. In my real scenario, each batch only has code to produce a specific type of animation from a multi-page PDF.
The test input file to produce a multi-page PDF is given as follows:
% test.tex
\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\begin{document}
\multido{\i=40+40}{9}
{
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid=false](-2,-2)(2,2)
\psline(2;\i)
\end{pspicture}
}
\end{document}
Each animating batch needs a wrapper that I actually put in my local TeX directory. The wrapper is as simple as follows.
% wrapper.tex
\documentclass[border=\Border]{standalone}
\usepackage[dvisvgm]{animate}
\usepackage[dvisvgm]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\animategraphics[\Options]{\FrameRate}{\FileName}{}{}%
\end{document}
And the animating batch is as follows.
rem animator.bat
echo off
rem %1 input filename without extension
rem %2 frame rate
rem %3 animate options such as palindrome, controls, autoplay, scale=1, loop, etc
rem %4 standalone border
rem pre-cleaning
for %%x in (aux log dvi ps pdf svg) do (if exist "%~1.%%x" del "%~1.%%x")
latex "%~1.tex"
dvips "%~1.dvi"
ps2pdf "%~1.ps"
latex --jobname="%~1" "\def\FileName{%~1}\def\FrameRate{%2}\def\Options{%~3}\def\Border{%4}\input{wrapper}"
dvisvgm --bbox=papersize --font-format=woff --zoom=-1 "%~1"
rem post-cleaning
for %%x in (aux log dvi ps) do (if exist "%~1.%%x" del "%~1.%%x")
Problem
Only for simplicity I put all of those files in a single directory. I invoke the batch from command prompt as follows
animator.bat test 10 "controls,scale=1,loop,autoplay,palindrome" 12pt
but I got the following errors.
LaTeX Warning: Reference `anim@abspage0' on page 1 undefined on input line 5.
! Package xkeyval Error:
controls,scale=1,loop,autoplay,palindrome' undefined in familiesanim@user'.See the xkeyval package documentation for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ...
l.5 ...aphics[\Options]{\FrameRate}{\FileName}{}{} % ?
How to fix this error?
