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Needs rework (see last para comments) 40DEDR: Reviewed</lastedited> 41</history> 42</meta> 43<body> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153188"><bookmark_value>cross-fading; creating cross-fades</bookmark_value> 45<bookmark_value>GIF images; animating</bookmark_value> 46<bookmark_value>animated GIFs</bookmark_value> 47</bookmark> 48<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> 49</variable></paragraph> 50<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> 51<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> 52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150250" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="58">To create an animated GIF:</paragraph> 53<list type="ordered"> 54<listitem> 55<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> 56</listitem> 57<listitem> 58<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149601" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="60">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 59</listitem> 60</list> 61<list type="unordered"> 62<listitem> 63<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145086" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="97">Click the <emph>Apply Object </emph>button 64<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> 65 </image> to add a single object or a group of objects to the current animation frame.</paragraph> 66</listitem> 67<listitem> 68<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150860" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="98">Click the <emph>Apply Objects Individually </emph>button 69<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> 70 </image> to create a separate animation frame for each of the selected objects.</paragraph> 71</listitem> 72</list> 73<list type="ordered" startwith="3"> 74<listitem> 75<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> 76<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> 77</listitem> 78<listitem> 79<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> 80</listitem> 81<listitem> 82<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> 83</listitem> 84<listitem> 85<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> 86<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> 87</listitem> 88<listitem> 89<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> 90</listitem> 91<listitem> 92<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> 93</listitem> 94<listitem> 95<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="101">Click <emph>Create</emph>.</paragraph> 96</listitem> 97</list> 98<section id="relatedtopics"> 99<embed href="text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_save.xhp#animated_gif_save"/> 100</section> 101</body> 102</helpdocument> 103