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One of the most exciting enhancements in the latest release of InDesign CC 2014, is the ability to use InDesign’s tools to make animations for EPUBs. And one of the coolest ways to customize animations is to use any path in your document as a motion path. You can use any non-compound path to make things move.
For example, select an object and apply an animation like Fly In From Top, and then click on the motion path with the Direct Selection tool to change its shape. Use the Pen tool to add or remove anchor points and change the shapes of path segments.
That way you can make a feather gently float downaward instead of dropping like a rock.
You can also bring in a path from another application, like Adobe Illustrator (via copy and paste) and then make it into a motion path by selecting it and the object you want to animate. Then go to the Animation panel menu and choose: Convert to Motion Path.
This article was last modified on July 8, 2021
This article was first published on November 18, 2014
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