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Chapter 2. Adding Animation to a Presentation. Applying Animation. Animation is a great way to add life to InDesign documents by making objects: move and fade appear and disappear fly in from one side of the screen. Applying Animation. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Chapter 2
Adding Animationto a Presentation
Applying Animation
• Animation is a great way to add life to InDesign documents by making objects:– move and fade– appear and disappear– fly in from one side of the screen
Applying Animation
• Presets, which are available on the Animation panel, can be applied quickly and easily to objects in your layout.
Preset menu on the Animation panel
Applying Animation
• Use the Events menu on the Animation panel to specify when the animation should occur.
Apply Animation
• You can apply multiple events to a single animation.
• The ability to use more than one event to trigger an animation increases your options for making a more complex presentation.
Previewing Animation
• The SWF Preview panel allows you to test out the animations you are applying without exporting the file each time.
• When you press the Play button on the SWF Preview panel, the page is reloaded in the panel, just as it would be in a browser.
SWF Preview panel
The SWF Preview Panel
• Shows only the current page in the InDesign layout.
Previewing Animation
• If you click a button or hyperlink that is linked to a website, a browser window will open and take you to the destination.
• This is a great way to quickly test that the URLs you have set as destinations are live and working without having to export the file.
Using the Timing Panel to Control Animation
• To work with animation, you need to think of the exported document as being a presentation displayed in a linear timeline.
• The Timing panel is used to control when animated objects play.
Using the Timing Panel to Control Animation
• The Timing panel lists all the animations on a current spread, specifying the page event assigned to each animation.
Timing panel
Using a Button to Play Animation
• The very essence of a button is to make something happen when you click it.
• The button plays the role of the signal or sign post, telling the viewer, “Click here and something will happen.”
Using a Button to Play Animation
• To create a button trigger, choose what you want to use as the button.
• It can be a simple square, a text frame, or a placed image.
Using a Button to Play Animation
• Once you’ve created a button and formatted it to trigger an animation, you can apply an animation to the button itself.
Create button trigger button