Animations In LaTeX
Answer : Since the OP asks for creating an animated PDF using the animate package without the need to have the animation frames in a separate (PDF) file, the tikzpicture environment can be directly put into an animateinline environment: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{animate} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{lindenmayersystems} \pgfdeclarelindenmayersystem{A}{% \symbol{F}{\pgflsystemstep=0.6\pgflsystemstep\pgflsystemdrawforward} \rule{A->F[+A][-A]} } \begin{document} \begin{animateinline}[controls,autoplay,loop]{2} \multiframe{8}{n=1+1}{ \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=10,rotate=90] \draw (-.1,-.2) rectangle (.4,0.2); \draw [blue,opacity=0.5,line width=0.1cm,line cap=round] l-system [l-system={A,axiom=A,order=\n,angle=45,step=0.25cm}]; \end{tikzpicture} } \end{animateinline} \end{document} There are two things here, to produce a gif file (which we do here normally, in this site for uploading). to have the animation inside the pdf file. For ...