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Built-in reference: The Animation Encyclopedia script

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Built-in reference: The Animation Encyclopedia script

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- When you first start working with InDesign's animation features, it's such a different kind of feature. A different concept, really, from what most of us are probably used to working with in InDesign, that it can be a little hard to understand what kinds of things you can do. There are so many different options, it can be kind of hard to get your head around it. Fortunately, you have a great reference already installed in InDesign for you. It's a script called the animation encyclopedia, and it really is a kind of encylopedia, showing you simple examples of all the basic settings you can control with animations. To view the encyclopedia, simply open the scripts panel. Go to the Window menu, and under Utilities, you'll find Scripts. Let's open this application triangle, and open the samples. And, if you're on a Mac, you can choose Apple script, or Javascript, and in this list, you'll find the Animation Encyclopedia. To run the script, simply double-click it. When you run the script…

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