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Creating auto-scrolling text

Creating auto-scrolling text - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating auto-scrolling text

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- One of the interesting effects you can create with InDesign animations is to have scrolling text come in on your page. Like many of our special effects, it's easy if you know a trick or two. Let's take a look at this example. I'm going to play it in the Preview panel. A root beer mug flies in, but look at the text scrolling up and changing opacity as it does that. Pretty cool, huh? Let me show you how it's done. I'm gonna turn to the second page of this file, which still has our Fly-In animation on the root beer mug, but the text scrolling isn't set yet. I'm gonna open the Layers panel and show you a couple of things that we have set up on this page. We have a gradient frame here that we're actually going to use to have the text pass through it. I'll turn that off for a moment. Then down here is the text, but it has a hiding rectangle over it. Now, when you first see this effect, you might think, "Well, why don't I just use Fly-In from Bottom?" Well, let me show you what that looks…

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