3.1 Overview

There are two different methods of viewing PDF documents with Polybios in Hollywood: You can either load individual PDF pages as vector brushes or you can load an entire PDF document as a Hollywood animation in which the document's pages are simply mapped to individual anim frames. Whatever way you choose, Polybios will always map PDF pages to vector objects in Hollywood so that they can be scaled, rotated, and transformed without any losses in quality.

To use Polybios from your Hollywood script, you first need to initialize the plugin at the beginning of your script by using the following line:

 
@REQUIRE "polybios"

There are also some additional arguments that you can pass to the @REQUIRE preprocessor command. The following arguments are currently available:

NoVectorAnim:
When loading PDFs as Hollywood anims, Polybios will automatically create vector animations if the Hollywood version used with Polybios supports it. If you don't want that, set this tag to True. Note that if you set this tag to True, there will be quality losses when scaling or transforming the animation that contains the PDF pages. Defaults to False. (V1.3)


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