Animation not running in presentation made using beamer class

Question

I wish to include an .gif animation in my latex beamer presentation. Based on my reading from various sources, including this website, what I understood was that I need to convert .gif into a series of .jpg images. I have converted .gif into 10 .jpg images titled from foo-1.jpg to foo-10.jpg. I have put all these images in the same folder where I have my template file and other images which are used subsequently. Next, I am using the below commands to include it as an animation

\begin{frame}    
\animategraphics{12}{foo-}{0}{10}
\end{frame}

On doing this, I get no error, but the slide is shown as given in the attached image.

As it can be clearly seen, the animation does not fit on the slide, nor is it showing a set of moving images like a .gif file. What shall I do to get the animation nicely on the slide. I am ready to share all the 10 images if needed as a MWE, but please help me to overcome this problem.

Off-topic: for such an image with lines, png is much better suited than jpg — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, May 02 '18 at 15:02
I even have .png images. but they are not working too. It is Latex beamer presentation, only that I wish to add animation in it. If there is an other technique to do it,please tell — ShJ, May 02 '18 at 15:02
\animategraphics[loop,controls,width=\linewidth]{12}{foo-}{0}{10} or whatever width you want — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, May 02 '18 at 15:06
or use https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/240247/36296 which I personally find safer — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, May 02 '18 at 15:07
Also off-topic, but your figure seems to be simple enough that it could be drawn with TikZ/pgfplots or pstricks. — , May 02 '18 at 15:16
@marmot, it is not a figure but an approximately 30 seconds long animation that shows how the blue graph changes as alpha varies. As a screenshot it looks like a picture — ShJ, May 02 '18 at 15:29
Now, it runs fine after setting width as @samcarter told it. It has a play, pause option and one can manually go to the next picture also — ShJ, May 02 '18 at 15:30
Yes, but such things can be drawn in TikZ/pgfplots/pstricks. I am doing this all time. You just need to animate a parameter. — , May 02 '18 at 15:47
@samcarter. That question "Getting Gif..." had not solved the problem completely since I was having issues in getting a correct width. Though the rational used has been borrowed from the same question, but it alone was not sufficient in solving my problem, else I would not have posted this question again here — ShJ, May 02 '18 at 16:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '18 at 17:08

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The answer to the problem has been borrowed from the comment of @samcarter. The correct latex code used is as follows

\begin{frame}[t]
\animategraphics[loop,controls,width=8.5cm]{12}{foo-}{0}{20}
\end{frame}

Using the above code, the screenshot of the solution slide is given as follows:

As it can be seen, it is possible to play, pause and some other options are also there, which makes it look better in a presentation

answered May 02 '18 at 17:08

ShJ

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It would look even better if you used a LaTeX-based plotting/graphing package such as pgfplots together with animate. As @marmot suggests, you will get high quality vector graphics which can be animated by animating a parameter. – AlexG May 02 '18 at 20:03
@AlexG I don't know aboutpgfplotspackage. If possible, please post an answer on how it can be done – ShJ May 03 '18 at 01:19
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Look for tagged questions, entering [animate] [pgfplots] in the search bar. – AlexG May 03 '18 at 04:53

Animation not running in presentation made using beamer class

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