Movie pdf

Overview

PyMOL can save videos to formats (.mpg) that can be converted to a movie PDF (will not work with most PDF browser plugins; must be downloaded and viewed with certain viewers liked Adobe Acrobat 9.2+).

Requirements

• PyMOL
• LaTeX (pdflatex)

Get .mpg file from PyMOL

• Save a .mpg file from your video.
  

You can try this tutorial:
Biochemistry_student_intro#GUI_-_Scene_loop Scene_loop

LaTeX code

• The following LaTeX code saved as "pymol.tex":

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[3D]{movie15}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref} 
\begin{document}
\title{PyMOL 3D Objects in PDF}
\author{Troels Linnet}
\maketitle

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includemovie[
poster,
toolbar, %same as `controls'
text={\small(Click to play movie)}
]{320px}{216px}{movie.mpg}
\caption{A PyMOL movie object embedded in PDF, using mpg format.}
\label{mov:ex3d}
\end{figure}

See movie \ref{mov:ex3d}

\end{document}

• Create the PDF using LaTeX:

 pdflatex pymol.tex

More on movies in PDFs

• PDFmovie

See Also

• 3d protein image in pdf
• Example Scene_loop