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Needs rework (see last para comments)</comment> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 3382a98929Smseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153188"> 3482a98929Smseidel<bookmark_value>cross-fading; creating cross-fades</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>GIF images; animating</bookmark_value> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>animated GIFs</bookmark_value> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 38*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><variable id="animated_gif_create"><link href="text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_create.xhp" name="Creating Animated GIF Images">Creating Animated GIF Images</link> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 40*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149377" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 41*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3154657" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 42*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150250" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U">To create an animated GIF:</paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered"> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 45*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148703" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Select an object or group of objects that you want to include in your animation and choose <emph>Insert - Animated Image</emph>.</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 48*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149601" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 53*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145086" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Click the <emph>Apply Object</emph> button 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</image> to add a single object or a group of objects to the current animation frame.</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 58*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150860" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Click the <emph>Apply Objects Individually</emph> button 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir</image> to create a separate animation frame for each of the selected objects.</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="ordered" startwith="3"> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 65*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148391" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">In the <emph>Animation Group</emph> area, select <emph>Bitmap object</emph>.</paragraph> 66*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154871" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Use the animation timeline to specify the duration for displaying a frame and the number of times an animation sequence is presented (looping).</paragraph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 69*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154644" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Enter a frame number in the <emph>Image Number</emph> box (left box).</paragraph> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 72*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150756" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Enter the number of seconds you want the frame to display in the <emph>Duration</emph> box (middle box).</paragraph> 73cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 74cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 75*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151182" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Repeat the last two steps for each frame in your animation.</paragraph> 76*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3151177" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">You can preview your animation by using the controls to the left of the <emph>Image Number</emph> box.</paragraph> 77cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 78cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 79*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Select the number of times you want the animation sequence to repeat in the <emph>Loop count</emph> box (right box).</paragraph> 80cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 81cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 82*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145421" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Select an alignment option for the objects in the <emph>Alignment</emph> box.</paragraph> 83cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 84cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 85*964501fbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Click <emph>Create</emph>.</paragraph> 86cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 87cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 88cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 89cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_save.xhp#animated_gif_save"/> 90cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 91cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 92cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 93
