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Working with animations and Flash

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Working with animations and Flash

- [Instructor] InDesign has a wide variety of interactive features such as slide shows that you can make with multi-state objects and animations and more. But as I said in an early chapter, a lot of those features don't currently work in pdf. But there is kind of a crazy work around that will let you do animations and stuff like that in pdf. And the problem is it relies on Flash. And as we all know Flash is dying. But it's not totally dead yet and just like playing video and audio, Acrobat uses Flash for some interactive features. So if you know that your audience does have Flash installed on their computer, you could take advantage of that and make your pdf files even more interactive and cool looking. So I want to put an animation here at the top of this page. I want this log to fly in from the top. Now the thing is you can't add the animation in this document itself, instead you need to do it in a different document. So I'm going to first, cut this to the clipboard with a command…

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