File formats/3D PDF

PDF documents with integrated 3D interactive models

(This is a draft)

Installations

LaTeX to PDF

There are several pdfLatex software, like teTex, MiKTeX...

• Installation of MiKTeX (Windows)

1. Download and install Miktex "basic" from http://miktex.org/
2. Do an update [Start...Programs...MikTex...Maintenance]
3. Open the download manager and download the movie15 package [Start...Programs...MikTex...Maintenance]

IDTF to U3D

(See also descriptions and comments for IDTF and U3D formats regarding Jmol.)

• Installation of IDTFConverter (Windows)

1. Download and unzip http://www.iaas.msu.ru/tmp/u3d/u3dIntelWin.zip into, perhaps, c:\idtf
2. Create a simple command file u3d.bat and place it in a folder where it is easily accesible (e.g. the Windows directory or a folder included in the system's path). This u3d.bat file must contain this text:

c:\idtf\idtfconverter.exe -input %1.idtf -output %1.u3d

Creating the document

1. Within Jmol:

write c:/temp/xxx.idtf

That will create two files: {{file|xxx.idtf} and xxx.idtf.tex

2. Within Windows, call the u3d.bat file to convert the .idtf to .u3d format:

u3d c:\temp\xxx

3. Run the MikTeX program TeXworks and open your xxx.idtf.tex

4. Click menu item Typeset

You will see a blank document, because MikTex can't display the model, but doc.pdf should have been created.

5. Open doc.pdf using Adobe Reader v. 7 or later.

Contributors

AngelHerraez, Vdlee