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Needs rework (see last para comments) 36DEDR: Reviewed</lastedited> 37</history> 38</meta> 39<body> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153188"><bookmark_value>cross-fading; creating cross-fades</bookmark_value> 41<bookmark_value>GIF images; animating</bookmark_value> 42<bookmark_value>animated GIFs</bookmark_value> 43</bookmark> 44<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="55"><variable id="animated_gif_create"><link href="text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_create.xhp" name="Creating Animated GIF Images">Creating Animated GIF Images</link> 45</variable></paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149377" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">You can animate drawing objects, text objects, and graphic objects (images) on your slides to make your presentation more interesting. $[officename] Impress provides you with a simple animation editor where you can create animation images (frames) by assembling objects from your slide. The animation effect is achieved by rotating through the static frames that you create.</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3154657" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="57">If you create a bitmap animation (animated GIF), you can assign a delay time to each frame, and specify the number of times the animation is played.</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150250" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="58">To create an animated GIF:</paragraph> 49<list type="ordered"> 50<listitem> 51<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148703" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="59">Select an object or group of objects that you want to include in your animation and choose<emph> Insert - Animated Image</emph>.</paragraph> 52</listitem> 53<listitem> 54<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149601" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="60">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 55</listitem> 56</list> 57<list type="unordered"> 58<listitem> 59<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145086" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="97">Click the <emph>Apply Object </emph>button 60<image id="img_id3148489" src="sd/res/get1obj.png" width="0.423cm" height="0.423cm"><alt id="alt_id3148489" xml-lang="en-US">Note Icon</alt> 61 </image> to add a single object or a group of objects to the current animation frame.</paragraph> 62</listitem> 63<listitem> 64<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150860" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="98">Click the <emph>Apply Objects Individually </emph>button 65<image id="img_id3149355" src="sd/res/getallob.png" width="0.423cm" height="0.423cm"><alt id="alt_id3149355" xml-lang="en-US">Tip Icon</alt> 66 </image> to create a separate animation frame for each of the selected objects.</paragraph> 67</listitem> 68</list> 69<list type="ordered" startwith="3"> 70<listitem> 71<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148391" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="61">In the <emph>Animation Group </emph>area, select <emph>Bitmap object</emph>.</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154871" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="99">Use the animation timeline to specify the duration for displaying a frame and the number of times an animation sequence is presented (looping).</paragraph> 73</listitem> 74<listitem> 75<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154644" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="62">Enter a frame number in the <emph>Image Number</emph> box (left box).</paragraph> 76</listitem> 77<listitem> 78<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150756" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="63">Enter the number of seconds you want the frame to display in the <emph>Duration </emph>box (middle box).</paragraph> 79</listitem> 80<listitem> 81<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151182" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="64">Repeat the last two steps for each frame in your animation.</paragraph> 82<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3151177" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="100">You can preview your animation by using the controls to the left of the <emph>Image Number </emph>box.</paragraph> 83</listitem> 84<listitem> 85<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="65">Select the number of times you want the animation sequence to repeat in the <emph>Loop count </emph>box (right box).</paragraph> 86</listitem> 87<listitem> 88<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145421" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="88">Select an alignment option for the objects in the <emph>Alignment</emph> box.</paragraph> 89</listitem> 90<listitem> 91<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="101">Click <emph>Create</emph>.</paragraph> 92</listitem> 93</list> 94<section id="relatedtopics"> 95<embed href="text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_save.xhp#animated_gif_save"/> 96</section> 97</body> 98</helpdocument> 99