[Tex/LaTex] Why does animategraphics no longer work

animate

Several decades ago I could compile the following code snippet with pdflatex -shell-escape main.tex to produce a PDF output with animation.

% the filename is main.tex
\documentclass[preview,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{diagram.tex}

\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\foreach \x in {1,...,10}{
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](5,5)
    \pscircle(2.5,2.5){!\x\space 10 div}
\end{pspicture}}
\end{document}

\end{filecontents*}


\usepackage{pgffor}
\foreach \compiler/\ext in {latex/tex,dvips/dvi,{ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None}/ps}{\immediate\write18{\compiler\space diagram.\ext}}

\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
\animategraphics[autoplay,controls,loop,scale=1]{3}{diagram}{}{}
\end{document}

Unfortunately now it is just a PDF output with a not-working animation. What causes this problem?

Edit

I does not seem to be dependent on whether or not I use PSTricks or TikZ.

% filenanem is main.tex
% compile it with pdflatex -shell-escape main.tex

\documentclass[preview,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{diagram.tex}

\documentclass[tikz,border=12pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\foreach \x in {1,...,10}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \draw[white] (0,0) rectangle (5,5);
    \draw (2.5,2.5) circle (\x/10);
\end{tikzpicture}}
\end{document}

\end{filecontents*}


\immediate\write18{pdflatex diagram.tex}

\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
\animategraphics[autoplay,controls,loop,scale=1]{3}{diagram}{}{}
\end{document}

Edit 2

My viewer is

enter image description here

Edit 3

When using article document class instead of standalone but it does not work as well.

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Best Answer

Remove preview from the class options. It is not necessary and it causes a problem during compilation. Without, the resulting PDF with the animation is ok.

BTW, older versions of standalone used to set preview option by default. Recent versions set option crop instead.

My test file (pdflatex --shell-escape):

%\documentclass[border=12pt]{standalone} % <-- works as well
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{diagram.tex}

\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\foreach \x in {1,...,10}{
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](5,5)
    \pscircle(2.5,2.5){!\x\space 10 div}
\end{pspicture}}
\end{document}

\end{filecontents*}


\usepackage{pgffor}
\foreach \compiler/\ext in {latex/tex,dvips/dvi,{ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None}/ps}{\immediate\write18{\compiler\space diagram.\ext}}

\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
\animategraphics[autoplay,controls,loop,scale=1]{3}{diagram}{}{}
\end{document}

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