
You'll see two folders: Application and User.


You can examine each object's settings in the Animation and Timing panels and learn a lot. The script generates an InDesign document containing examples of objects using many of the animation controls. First, you have to find a script that ships with InDesign. There's a great little guide to InDesign's animation capabilities built right into the application, but you have to do a little digging to find it. Think of the fiendish possibilities! Exploring the Possibilities However, remember that a frame containing a placed SWF file can be animated, and the animation inside the frame will play while its container is doing something else (as long as something triggers the SWF to play). As you saw in Chapter 3, "Multimedia," a frame containing an FLV or FV4 video can be animated, but the video inside the frame won't play until the animated frame calms down and stops doing whatever it's doing. Here's where the real fun begins!Īny text frame, graphics frame, or empty frame (or group of frames) can be animated. But InDesign CS5 allows you to do so much more-now, page content itself can be animated.

While InDesign CS4 introduced the ability to import SWF files and to export to the SWF format, the resulting SWF was still just a container for content that had to be created elsewhere. While previous versions of InDesign allowed you to create hyperlinks and import video and sound files, the InDesign document itself was static none of the page content wiggled or barked.
