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Animating infographics: Line graphs

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Animating infographics: Line graphs

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- One of the most common types of charts and graphs are line graphs, or line charts, which can easily be created in Excel, or even Adobe Illustrator. But only InDesign can make them move and engage, with movement from animations. There are a couple of different techniques you can use, both of which, of course, involve drawing lines. Let's take a look at the first technique. I'll show you this animation in the Preview panel. Each data point comes in, along with its legend, and it plots out the line graph for social media usage. Let me show you how this was done. I'm gonna hide a couple of these lines, and just focus on the one on the bottom. I'll select it, and I'll remove the animation and then show you how it was done. Notice that this line doesn't have any rotation applied to it. That's because I drew it at an angle, like this. When we draw diagonal lines that way, as I discussed in another video, if we try to use our little line-drawing scaling trick, which is to set the width to…

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