Rotate images in animations

Question

i tried to have the animations in landscape but failed.

please click below

http://www.twd-wind.com/inflowrc.pdf

you will see the first page the text is in landscape page, the second page the page layout is landscape but the graphics are not.

following is the tex code i used.

\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage[%
  pdftitle={},%
  pdfauthor={},%
  pdfsubject={},%
  pdfcreator={},%
  pdfproducer={},%
  pdfstartview=Fit,%
  bookmarks=false,%
  pdfkeywords={}]{hyperref}
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{center}
Sample Test\\
\makebox[\textwidth]{\animategraphics[controls,timeline=timeline_R.txt]{1}{inflow}{1}{5}}
\end{center}
\end{landscape}
\end{document} 

any ideas to have the graphics also in landscape and the animation control below it????

thanks in advance. graham

Answer 1

Ok, so what I said in the comments was to limit the size of the images... Which basically solves your problems.

You have to consider the animategraphics command as the equivalent of an includegraphics command. Thus it will simply insert the frame with the equivalent size of the image information etc.

So the solution is to do (you dont need the makebox):

\animategraphics[controls,width=0.9\textwidth,timeline=timeline_R.txt]{1}{inflow}{1}{5}

That is if your images have the perfect aspect ratio to fit on the landscape page. Otherwise try:

\animategraphics[controls,width=0.9\textwidth,height=0.8\textheight,timeline=timeline_R.txt]{1}{inflow}{1}{5}

Which should work but not necessarily maintain aspect ratio.

Explicit rotation of images

When creating images which needs rotation, the usage of animate becomes a little more explicit. You then need an explicit loop and include the rotation in the definition. This also has the advantage of allowing more control for the user (as you can add whatever you want to the image).

So the result is this:

\begin{landscape}
\begin{center}
Sample Test\\
\begin{animateinline}[controls]{1}%
  \multiframe{5}{ii=1+1}{%
      % ii = 1, 2, ..., 5
      \includegraphics[height=.5\textheight,angle=90]{inflow\ii.pdf}
  }
\end{animateinline}
\end{center}
\end{landscape}

Answer 2

EDIT

As of version [2017/01/09], animate-generated animations can be placed on landscape pages, that is, inside the landscape environment provided by the lscape and pdflscape packages. Animation frames and control button faces are properly rotated.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{animate}[2017/01/09]

\begin{document}

\begin{landscape}
\begin{animateinline}[controls]{10}
  \multiframe{101}{i=0+1}{\Huge\framebox[2em][r]{\i}}
\end{animateinline}
\end{landscape}

\end{document}