Creating Animations in Adobe InDesign One Step at a Time

Chapter 10. Business Graphics

So far most of the exercises in the book have been fun and games with animated cartoon characters running, flying, dancing, throwing basketballs, or playing a crime-fighter (Kapow!). I know most of you are more business-oriented. Your boss isn’t interested in playing games with InDesign. You’re here to learn how to enhance your work, with no fun allowed!

So this chapter is dedicated to creating the type of effects that are popular for business graphics. We’ll install a special script that makes it easier to divide text into individual frames for animating characters, words, and paragraphs. We’ll look at animating charts and graphs to enhance sales reports. We’ll cover how to make ordinary maps into more interactive ...