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Frame by frame animation

1) Create the image you intend to animate using the drawing tools.

2) Select the image and click the Apply Object button. This

copies the object (or objects) into the upper part of the Animation

dialog box.

3) Apply some transformation to the object; for example, rotate it,

change the color, if you are animating a text add or subtract a

letter and so on.

4) When you are ready, create the second frame of the animation

and click the Apply Object button again.

5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have created all the desired frames

of the animation.

6) Select Bitmap object in the

Animation group

section of the

Animator dialog box. This allows you to customize the timing of

each of the frames and the number of repetitions for the

animation (set the value to

Max

to obtain an infinite loop).

7) Click Create to place the animated image on the slide.

Note

If the image to be copied in the Animator consists of several

objects, you can choose to treat each object as a separate frame.

In this case click the Apply objects individually button .

Remember that each object will be centered in the animation.

Animated image in one step

For some simple animations it is possible to create all the animation

frames in advance, and place them on the slide. This method works

well for a rotating line, a shape gradually changing color, shapes

increasing or decreasing size. In most of these occasions it is

convenient to use the Edit > Duplicate command.

When all the frames are already prepared, use the Apply objects

individually to create one frame for each of the objects.

It is easy to obtain for example a rotating segment:

1) Draw a segment, say, horizontal and make it fairly thick (use

Format > Line or the Line and Filling toolbar to do that).

2) Open the Duplicate dialog box by selecting Edit > Duplicate and

set the number of copies to 5, the X and Y axis to 0.1, the angle to

30, the enlargement width and height to 0, and press the OK

button.

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