[Tex/LaTex] embed a page from a website into a LaTeX document

embedding

I am familiar with how to embed images into a LaTeX document, and have read some about embedding audio and video using the multimedia package, but what I want to do is a bit more complicated. The closest thing to what I want to do, that I could find documentation for, is a package that allows one to embed an interactive Google map into a LaTeX document, but that package seems specific to Google maps.

In particular, I'm using the site www.desmos.com to create some graphs with slideable parameters. I'm writing some notes to share with my collaborators and I was wondering if, rather than just linking to the website, I can put a frame of the image along with all the slidable parameters, right into my document.

The site makes available HTML code for en embedding using the iframe tag. Is there a package that allows me to use this? Is there some other way to do it?

I realize I could also settle for putting a link into the document and taking screenshot, but would like to know if the interactive content can be included directly.

Best Answer

latex normally generates pdf, you can't put a general html/javascript page in a pdf file. So LaTeX isn't really an issue unless you are not using tex but one of the convertors to html eg tex4ht in which case it would be simple just to add the generated iframe to any html generated from the latex, but that isn't really a latex question.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Is it possible to embed a YouTube video using LaTeX

Notice of obsolescence:

YouTube have dropped its Flash-based video player in Sept 2017. For the lack of HTML5 support in the PDF specification (and thus by PDF viewers), YT playback is not possible anymore in an embedded fashion.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{media9}             %pdflatex, latex+dvips+ps2pdf, xelatex
%\usepackage[dvipdfmx]{media9}  %latex+dvipdfmx

\begin{document}
\includemedia[
  width=0.6\linewidth,height=0.45\linewidth,
  activate=pageopen,
  flashvars={
    modestbranding=1 % no YT logo in control bar
   &autohide=1       % controlbar autohide
   &showinfo=0       % no title and other info before start
  }
]{}{http://www.youtube.com/v/<video id>?rel=0}   % Flash file
\end{document}

<video id> to be replaced by the video ID, i. e., something like Mdc3o7wOwNA. More FlashVars for configuring the youtube video player are documented here. Some FlashVars, such as rel=0, seem to have effect only if appended to the URL.

[Tex/LaTex] Embedding a PDF file with clickable external links into a LaTeX document

Quoting the pdfpages manual (page 2):

[...] all kinds of links¹ will get lost during inclusion. (Using \includepdf, \includegraphics, or other low-level commands.)

However, there's a gleam of hope. Some links may be extracted and later reinserted by a package called pax which can be downloaded from CTAN [3]. Have a look at it!

The pax package mentioned is actually a Java program which reads the PDF file, extracts the links and writes their positions to a .pax file. This information can be processed by an extended version of \includegraphics which reinserts the links at the correct position. However, the package is considered experimental and only works with pdfLaTeX.

This is how to use pax:

Download and install the package from CTAN.
Run pdfannotextractor.pl --install. This downloads and installs PDFBox, a Java library necessary for using pax.
Now you can run pdfannotextractor.pl <filename.pdf> in order to read the links from any given PDF file and write them to filename.pax.
In your LaTeX document, invoke \usepackage{pax}. This extends \includegraphics in order to read and process the auxiliary .pax file.

Regarding the cropping of the PDF file with Ghostscript: In my experiments, this seemed to confuse pax, resulting in wrong positions of the hyperlinks. So it's probably best to call wkhtmltopdf with

wkhtmltopdf -B 0mm -L 0mm -R 0mm -T 0mm

in order to not create any margin from the start.

This is my working test case (using the site https://tex.stackexchange.com/about):

Creation of the PDF and the annotation file:

wkhtmltopdf -B 0mm -L 0mm -R 0mm -T 0mm https://tex.stackexchange.com/about screenshot.pdf
pdfannotextractor.pl screenshot.pdf

LaTeX source code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=0mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{pax}

% Visible squares for demonstration purposes, can be removed without harm
% (change \iftrue to \iffalse or remove the following lines altogether)
\iftrue
  \usepackage{hyperref}
  \hypersetup{
    filebordercolor={1 1 0},
  }
\fi

\begin{document}
    \includegraphics[scale=0.9]{screenshot}
\end{document}

Result:

output result, with visible squares denoting hyperlinks

_{(The cyan boxes are there to prove that hyperlinks work, and can be removed without consequences.)}