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• • March 27, 2018 at 10:46 am #102645
    Dirk Gevers

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    Hi guys,

    I am struggling with making an animation from 15 pdf’s. The animation is really simple. pdf 1 appears, on top of pdf 1 appears pdf 2, on top of pdf 3 appears pdf 4. etc. Each during 0,5 sec. The result is a gif-like animation.
    i tried everything but i just cant make a loop out of it. Does anyone know how to do this? thank you!!

    grt dirk

  • March 27, 2018 at 10:47 am #102646
    Dirk Gevers

    Member

    Hi guys,

    I am struggling with making an animation from 15 pdf’s. The animation is really simple. pdf 1 appears, on top of pdf 1 appears pdf 2, on top of pdf 3 appears pdf 4. etc. Each during 0,5 sec. The result is a gif-like animation.
    i tried everything but i just cant make a loop out of it. Does anyone know how to do this? thank you!!

    grt dirk

  • March 27, 2018 at 10:51 am #102647
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I don’t think there is any way to do this in InDesign. The only looping animations I’ve seen are GIFs:
    https://creativepro.com/animated-gifs-indesign.php
    and
    https://creativepro.com/combining-animated-gifs-with-indesign-animations.php

    • March 27, 2018 at 11:00 am #102648
      Dirk Gevers

      Member

      Thanks for your respons!

      Im basically having the same question as this person. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2055661
      One person responded with a method (which i tried but didnt work…). Thats why i believe there might be a way…

      Since the looping option exists, id say it must be possible to loop such an easy animation?

  • March 27, 2018 at 11:14 am #102649
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Interesting! Yes, maybe there is a way to do it with the Loop feature in Timing… seems tricky to do because you probably want each object to appear and then disappear. I still think I’d rather convert the PDFs to an animated GIF and run that. :-)

  • March 27, 2018 at 11:21 am #102650
    Dirk Gevers

    Member

    The pdf’s dont have to disappear because they are made in a way so that they can overlap.. they can basically be stacked. But still cant seem to figure out how to loop it…

    Making the gif in photoshop was also an option i worked on, however, indesign only seems to work with swf files and photoshop is no longer able to export to swf files. Converting my photoshop gif to an swf file externally, causes a lot of quality loss..

    Another option i tried is making the animation in illustrator, that is able to export as an swf file. However, when placing this into indesign and while running that, the animation shows heavy problems, all kinds of crazy lines and shapes distorting the animation..

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