Answers.Body: <p>We can integrate the gif format in epub3 packages say as a background to div container or another option would be convert gif to mp4 format.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Sorry to just now see this answer. Could you elaborate, Leon? Yes, the GIFs can be converted to MP4 (they started as MP4, actually).
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Body: <p>I run a technical blog and publish articles regularly that have GIF animations. Examples: <a href="http://www.practicalnetworking.net/series/packet-traveling/host-to-host-through-a-switch/#switch-operation" rel="noreferrer">one</a> <a href="http://www.practicalnetworking.net/series/packet-traveling/osi-model/#encap-decap" rel="noreferrer">two</a> <a href="http://www.practicalnetworking.net/stand-alone/vlans/#extending-vlans" rel="noreferrer">three</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I plan to aggregate a bunch of these articles into an eBook of sorts. I know I could break out the animations into individual, still images, but I think the fact that they are animated make them much more conducive to learning and involving for the reader.</p>
  
  <p>As far as I know, a typical PDF does not allow for a GIF animation. If not for a PDF, what options do I have for a published eBook that also allow for these animations?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Do they have to stay as animated GIFs? Or could you convert them to a different format that is more easily included in a popular eBook format?
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Comments.Text: @BrandonHaugen What other format would allow an animation / video in a PDF?
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Comments.Text: PDF supports a variety of video formats, depending on what the intended audience is going to view the files with these may be an option. Adobe provides a list of what is supported by Acrobat : https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/playing-video-audio-multimedia-formats.html
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Comments.Text: EPUB 3.0 supports a variety of video formats as well that might suit your needs. I am not sure if EPUB reading applications are better or worse at supporting video than PDF viewing applications : http://epubzone.org/news/multimedia-support-in-epub-3
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Comments.Text: @BrandonHaugen Interesting, didn't know about video support in PDFs. Thanks for the link.  Regarding EPUB, how portable is that?  I would hate to have to troubleshoot case by case when customers purchase EPUB, versus the general ubiquitous support for PDF files.
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Comments.Text: The nice thing about the EPUB ecosystem is that they manage a site that tests conformance to the spec wth various EPUB reading applications where you can see the results (http://www.epubtest.org/testsuite/epub3/). I don't think anything like this exists for PDF viewing applications, I could be wrong though.
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Title: Creating an eBook with GIF animations
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ThreadText: # Creating an eBook with GIF animations
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-25)
  
  I run a technical blog and publish articles regularly that have GIF animations. Examples: [one](http://www.practicalnetworking.net/series/packet-traveling/host-to-host-through-a-switch/#switch-operation) [two](http://www.practicalnetworking.net/series/packet-traveling/osi-model/#encap-decap) [three](http://www.practicalnetworking.net/stand-alone/vlans/#extending-vlans).
  
  I plan to aggregate a bunch of these articles into an eBook of sorts. I know I could break out the animations into individual, still images, but I think the fact that they are animated make them much more conducive to learning and involving for the reader.
  
  As far as I know, a typical PDF does not allow for a GIF animation. If not for a PDF, what options do I have for a published eBook that also allow for these animations?
  
  **Tags:** pdf, publishing, file-format
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Do they have to stay as animated GIFs? Or could you convert them to a different format that is more easily included in a popular eBook format?  
  > **username_0**: @BrandonHaugen What other format would allow an animation / video in a PDF?  
  > **username_1**: PDF supports a variety of video formats, depending on what the intended audience is going to view the files with these may be an option. Adobe provides a list of what is supported by Acrobat : https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/playing-video-audio-multimedia-formats.html  
  > **username_1**: EPUB 3.0 supports a variety of video formats as well that might suit your needs. I am not sure if EPUB reading applications are better or worse at supporting video than PDF viewing applications : http://epubzone.org/news/multimedia-support-in-epub-3  
  > **username_0**: @BrandonHaugen Interesting, didn't know about video support in PDFs. Thanks for the link.  Regarding EPUB, how portable is that?  I would hate to have to troubleshoot case by case when customers purchase EPUB, versus the general ubiquitous support for PDF files.  
  > **username_1**: The nice thing about the EPUB ecosystem is that they manage a site that tests conformance to the spec wth various EPUB reading applications where you can see the results (http://www.epubtest.org/testsuite/epub3/). I don't think anything like this exists for PDF viewing applications, I could be wrong though.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-02-15. Score: 2
  
  We can integrate the gif format in epub3 packages say as a background to div container or another option would be convert gif to mp4 format.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Sorry to just now see this answer. Could you elaborate, Leon? Yes, the GIFs can be converted to MP4 (they started as MP4, actually).  
  
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