Back

If your email is not recognized and you believe it should be, please contact us.

  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.Login

Anyone Have Information on Fix for Animations in CS5?

Return to Member Forum

  • Author
    Posts
    • December 21, 2010 at 2:02 am #58167
      MelindaKay Hull
      Member

      I would just like to ask if anyone has any “inside” information regarding a patch for the animation problem in InDesign CS5. I have a lot of animations that I want to do in a project. I can work in both Flash and InDesign, and was real excited to be able to do the simple animations to work using InDesign with the help of James Fritz's lynda.com course (thank you!!!!). However, I was disheartened by the bug. Since I can work directly in Flash, it seems easier to just do everything in Flash rather than use the work around which has been devised. However, I was wondering if anyone has any idea if there is any hope that InDesign will fix the problem.

      Thanks!

      Melinda Hull

    • December 27, 2010 at 3:16 pm #58218
      Bob Levine
      Participant

      First of all, anyone with “inside information” would be violating an NDA by posting it publicly. Secondly, perhaps you'd get a bit more in the wasy of help if you actually explained what bug you were referring to.

    • December 31, 2010 at 3:36 am #58252
      MelindaKay Hull
      Member

      Thanks Bob for pointing out my faux pas. It was not my intention to ask anyone to do anything unethical and I apologize if anyone took that to be my objective.

      The “bug” is basically that while animations appear all pretty and nice in the preview window, they cannot be exported to PDF without converting them manually page by page to a SWF file or using a wonderful script provided by Martinho da Gloria. Also there are problems with the background appearing white. The whole issue can also be avoided by doing the designs in Flash.

      James Fritz described the work around in great depth in his lynda.com title on Interactive PDFs (which I highly recommend to anyone interested in interactive InDesign documents/projects).

      Since no one has commented, I will assume that the status quo shall remain the status quo.

      Melinda

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 2 reply threads
  • The forum ‘General InDesign Topics (CLOSED)’ is closed to new topics and replies.
Forum Ads