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Originally Posted by Quoth
Save animation as a video or gif in the phone app, or even just on the Internet. The QR code + link will work on all platforms.
As you know, animation only works on phones, tablets, PCs, MACs, and never on paper or eink, though Harry Potter style semi-animated eink has occasionally been glued onto a magazine as an expensive marketing gimmick.
Most eReading apps on phones and tablets don't support animation, if they display even a gif (most won't), you'll get only the first frame.
Hitch knows all this.
I found even on the Forum here, that while I managed to have a link on a centred image in my signature, I could only get the the link to work on a caption for an image in the post. It was offering to Zoom / Enlarge image rather that load link. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I'd concluded that in ebooks a while ago, that not all ereading software would easily allow a link on an image to work.
Also a few really old readers don't support ANY kind of link!
Also a link outside of a book doesn't work on all ereaders, and a link to a video or animation will only work on a phone, tablet, PC etc.
So while I dislike QR codes, if you have a separate phone (or tablet) to what you are reading on, they do work on ANY platform that can display a small mono static image. Paper, eink, OLED, LCD, anything.
So the only ereading app I have where the QR doesn't display is the Palm Z22 PDA (any ereader on it, though maybe the PDF viewer works, but as screen is 160 x 160 pixels I didn't install Adobe's PDF reader for Palm PDA. Maybe I should for a laugh?)
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You have the heart and soul of a Tesla; you're always experimenting. I admire it enormously. I drive my crew nuts, saying things like "hey, kids, let's try this and see if we can make it work," and mostly, they ignore me. lol. I guess I'm just not channeling my inner Cruella DeVille clearly enough, (sigh).
Hitch