The SIGGRAPH 96 Conference Proceedings CD-ROM offers links between Adobe
Acrobat PDF files and QuickTime animations supplied by the paper authors
as supplemental electronic documentation.

In order to successfully view these QuickTime animations from within
Adobe Acrobat Reader on UNIX platforms, additions must be made to two 
files, ".mime.types" and ".mailcap", which associate specific file 
types with applications which can open them. If these files exist in 
your account, they are likely to be found in your home directory.
If these files do not exist, they should be created.

The following steps outline the configuration needed to view QuickTime
animations from within Adobe Acrobat Reader on UNIX platforms:

  1.  Install the "xanim" application found on the CD-ROM.

  2a. If you have a ".mailcap" file, add the following line to it, 
      starting in column 1:

        video/quicktime; xanim +Ae +f %s

  2b. If you do not have a ".mailcap" file, create it in your home
      directory and place the following line in it, starting in column 1:

        video/quicktime; xanim +Ae +f %s

  3a. If you have a ".mime.types" file, add the following line to it,
      starting in column 1:

        video/quicktime<TAB>mov

      (press the Tab key once where "<TAB>" is written above)

  3b. If you do not have a ".mime.types" file, create it in your home
      directory and add the following line to it, starting in column 1:

        video/quicktime<TAB>mov

      (press the Tab key once where "<TAB>" is written above)

  4.  Define the following environment variables:

        $EXTENSIONCAPS=$HOME/.mime.types
        $MAILCAPS=$HOME/.mailcap

      If your ".mime.types" and ".mailcap" files are located somewhere
      other than your home directory, the value of these environment 
      variables will be different, to reflect the true location of the
      files. The examples above reflect the files being located in your
      home directory.

  5.  Launch Adobe Acrobat Reader.

More information on mapping file types can be found in the "MapTypes.pdf"
Adobe Acrobat file located in the "Help" directory installed during the
installation of the Adobe Acrobat Reader application. A likely path to
this file is: "/usr/adobe/AcroRead_2.1/Help/MapTypes.pdf".