CTAN Update: animate

On Fri, 9 May 2008 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the

 animate

package for creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline 
graphics.

The package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF 
animations from sets of graphics files or from inline graphics, such as LaTeX 
picture environment, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or just from 
typeset text.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Animations produced with this updated version of animate.sty can now be played 
in the current Adobe Reader 8 at a reasonable speed as well.

You might want to experiment with the graphical hardware acceleration feature 
that was introduced in Reader 8. Go to menu `Edit'-->`Preferences'-->`Page 
Display'-->`Rendering' to see whether hardware acceleration is available. A 2D 
GPU acceleration check box will be visible if a supported video card has been 
detected. (This is currently a Windows-only feature, though.)

Feedback is highly welcome, as in my case (different platform + unsupported 
video card) there is no hardware acceleration available.