

With it, designers can drop images or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) elements onto a canvas that's connected to an animation timeline. The tool gives a graphical user interface to Web design to automate programming that otherwise would require more technical knowledge of HTML5, the next-generation version of Hypertext Markup Language now under development, and CSS, the Cascading Style Sheets standard for formatting and now some animated transitions. Look for more blogs in the future on this subject.In a new phase of its attempt to grow beyond Flash, Adobe Systems has begun showing off a design tool called Edge that lets designers animate Web page elements using standard Web technology. The level of success with this test encourages me to look into more complex animation involving code. This test project was purposely designed to test basic capability of using an OAM produced in Adobe Animate CC 2017 in Adobe InDesign. Only the animation nested in the symbol was consistent (arms moving and eyes blinking). However, the primary animation was not as anticipated.

The file did wait to appear until the page was clicked. Here I set the OAM file to appear only when the page was clicked. The next test was to see if animation settings in InDesign would override the OAM settings. The cover page transitioned to my animated page. The minute I clicked OK, the ePub appeared in my iBooks Store. The following settings were used for ePub output. Project published exactly as it previewed.

Published the spread using Publish Online
#ADOBE ANIMATE FADE IN CODE#
Historically, I have been doing whatever animation I needed for InDesign mainly using code (ExtendScript and AppleScript). Of course, my main concern was to evaluate how well the animation would work for ePub and Publish Online projects. Always looking for better (or more efficient) ways to get applications to do my bidding, I was curious as to how well Animate CC would play with InDesign. I recently took a little detour to get caught up with Adobe Animate CC 2017.
