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Understanding multi-state objects

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Understanding multi-state objects

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- [Instructor] One of the most popular elements in interactive documents is a slideshow. Slideshows can engage users with simple, highly visual content. And they solve a fundamental design problem of how to fit a bunch of large images into one space. When otherwise, you'd have to reduce the size of the images, or spread them out over several pages. In many cases, the tool of choice for creating slideshows, is a multi-state object. So, let's see how they work. In the exercise file for this movie, we have some pieces from an artist's portfolio. Images of paintings, and the captions that go along with them. And, there are four in total. They're stacked on top of one another in this layout. And, I'm going to include this portfolio in a project that I might publish as either a fixed layout EPUB, or with Publish Online. Multi-state objects are not supported in reflowable EPUB, or interactive PDF. On this page, I'd like to create a slideshow of the paintings, so the user can navigate through…

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