This bug is up-upstream as I explained. Furthermore, due to missing acroread there is not even a chance for me to test it. I am closing this report, further bug reports should be sent to the *original* author of animate. Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13