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Animating type: Typewriter effect

Animating type: Typewriter effect - InDesign Tutorial

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Animating type: Typewriter effect

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- A very traditional kind of effect you'll see with type animations is that of an old typewriter. Making type type. Let's take a look at our example here. I'm going to open it in the EPUB Interactivity Preview Panel. Type type type, type type type, Made From Scratch. There it is. Each of these letters, in order to make it type, was initially set to Appear but notice it says Custom here so I made some changes. I lowered the default Duration, I removed the Opacity and I set it until Hide Until Animated. If I set back the Appear preset, you can see that the settings change. Let's take a look at how the whole thing was setup. I'm going to turn to the second page of this file where I don't have any animation and show you how it was done. First, I'm going to select all of these letters. They happen to be in the correct order so when I animate them, they should animate in the order that I want. I'm going to choose the preset Appear. And first let's check them in the Timing panel. Made From…

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