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Needs rework (see last para comments)</comment> 31</meta> 32<body> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153188"> 34<bookmark_value>cross-fading; creating cross-fades</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>GIF images; animating</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>animated GIFs</bookmark_value> 37</bookmark> 38<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> 39</variable></paragraph> 40<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> 41<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> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150250" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="58">To create an animated GIF:</paragraph> 43<list type="ordered"> 44<listitem> 45<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> 46</listitem> 47<listitem> 48<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149601" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="60">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 49</listitem> 50</list> 51<list type="unordered"> 52<listitem> 53<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145086" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="97">Click the <emph>Apply Object</emph> button 54<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> 55</image> to add a single object or a group of objects to the current animation frame.</paragraph> 56</listitem> 57<listitem> 58<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150860" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="98">Click the <emph>Apply Objects Individually</emph> button 59<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> 60</image> to create a separate animation frame for each of the selected objects.</paragraph> 61</listitem> 62</list> 63<list type="ordered" startwith="3"> 64<listitem> 65<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> 66<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> 67</listitem> 68<listitem> 69<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> 70</listitem> 71<listitem> 72<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> 73</listitem> 74<listitem> 75<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> 76<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> 77</listitem> 78<listitem> 79<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> 80</listitem> 81<listitem> 82<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> 83</listitem> 84<listitem> 85<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="101">Click <emph>Create</emph>.</paragraph> 86</listitem> 87</list> 88<section id="relatedtopics"> 89<embed href="text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_save.xhp#animated_gif_save"/> 90</section> 91</body> 92</helpdocument> 93
