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- The SIGGRAPH 96 Conference Proceedings CD-ROM offers links between Adobe
- Acrobat PDF files and QuickTime animations supplied by the paper authors
- as supplemental electronic documentation.
-
- In order to successfully view these QuickTime animations from within
- Adobe Acrobat Reader on UNIX platforms, additions must be made to two
- files, ".mime.types" and ".mailcap", which associate specific file
- types with applications which can open them. If these files exist in
- your account, they are likely to be found in your home directory.
- If these files do not exist, they should be created.
-
- The following steps outline the configuration needed to view QuickTime
- animations from within Adobe Acrobat Reader on UNIX platforms:
-
- 1. Install the "xanim" application found on the CD-ROM.
-
- 2a. If you have a ".mailcap" file, add the following line to it,
- starting in column 1:
-
- video/quicktime; xanim +Ae +f %s
-
- 2b. If you do not have a ".mailcap" file, create it in your home
- directory and place the following line in it, starting in column 1:
-
- video/quicktime; xanim +Ae +f %s
-
- 3a. If you have a ".mime.types" file, add the following line to it,
- starting in column 1:
-
- video/quicktime<TAB>mov
-
- (press the Tab key once where "<TAB>" is written above)
-
- 3b. If you do not have a ".mime.types" file, create it in your home
- directory and add the following line to it, starting in column 1:
-
- video/quicktime<TAB>mov
-
- (press the Tab key once where "<TAB>" is written above)
-
- 4. Define the following environment variables:
-
- $EXTENSIONCAPS=$HOME/.mime.types
- $MAILCAPS=$HOME/.mailcap
-
- If your ".mime.types" and ".mailcap" files are located somewhere
- other than your home directory, the value of these environment
- variables will be different, to reflect the true location of the
- files. The examples above reflect the files being located in your
- home directory.
-
- 5. Launch Adobe Acrobat Reader.
-
- More information on mapping file types can be found in the "MapTypes.pdf"
- Adobe Acrobat file located in the "Help" directory installed during the
- installation of the Adobe Acrobat Reader application. A likely path to
- this file is: "/usr/adobe/AcroRead_2.1/Help/MapTypes.pdf".