For a client (and for my pleasure ;-) I created a very small animation – kind of a background screen-animation as part of a trade fair stand. The tricky part was to build a looping swf. As far as I know, InDesign only can loop grouped objects in the animation time-pane. But what to do if you don't want to / or can't group every object?
After the export you get an swf which only runs once. And I didn’t find any standalone player which has an option for looping.
Here’s my workaround:
I exported the animations as swf. Then I imported the whole swf back to InDesign. Now I got a two pages file – page one: the solo animation and page two: the imported swf. After this I exported page two as an interactive PDF. The swf plays – as expected – within the PDF BUT only once. And now comes the trick. Just duplicate respectively create a PDF with two of this swf-pages and go to the page transitions. Set the time for the automatic change to the time of the animation and set this for all pages. Now you have go to the Acrobat presets under “Fullscreen” and check the “loop” (I hope it’s called ‘loop’ I’ve the German version ;-). If you now save the file and reopen it – it should play the swf of page one, switch to the second page, play the swf and then start over again.
I admit this is definitively not an elegant way to work with InDesign as an animation tool. But I don’t want to get into flash and action script. I’m an InDesign addict.
If you want to check out the file: https://www.synp.net/fileadmin/…..011_V2.zip
Remember, you need Acrobat 9 and higher, don't forget the preset – and no mac preview.
If anyone out there got a smarter solution I really would appreciate it.
Jeldrik
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