Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 537)

Animation
Animation panel
Direct Selection tool and Pen tool
Timing panel
Preview panel
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Animate a document with motion presets
Manage motion presets
Edit a motion path
Use the Timing panel to change the animation order
Animation effects let you make objects move in your exported SWF files. For example, you can apply a motion preset to an image that makes it
appear to fly in from the left side of the screen while shrinking and spinning. Use the following tools and panels to animate documents.
Click Play Button to view animation
Apply a motion preset and edit settings such as duration and speed.
Edit the path on which the animated object travels.
Determine the order in which objects on a page are animated.
View the animation in an InDesign panel.
A related type of animation you can add in InDesign is a button rollover effect. For more information, see Create buttons.
Jeff Witchel from Infiniteskills.com provides a video overview on Animating layouts .
Animate a document with motion presets
Motion presets are pre-made animations that you can apply to objects quickly. Use the Animation panel to apply motion presets and change
animation settings such as duration and speed. The Animation panel also lets you specify when an animated object plays.
These motion presets are the same as those found in Adobe Flash CS5 Professional. You can import any custom motion preset created in Flash
Professional. You can also save motion presets you create and use them in InDesign or Flash Professional.
Animation features are supported only when exporting to the Adobe Flash Player (.SWF). They are not supported when exporting to Interactive
PDF. To add animation effects to a PDF file, export a selection as a SWF file from InDesign and place that SWF file in the InDesign document.
1. Place the object you want to animate in your document.
2. In the Animation panel (Window > Interactive > Animation), choose a motion preset from the Preset menu.
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