Creating Animations in Adobe InDesign One Step at a Time

Introduction

When InDesign CS5.5 was introduced, the big excitement (at least to me) was the ability to create animated SWF files. I remember Adobe demonstrated creating a brochure where the items on the pages moved, faded when clicked, and otherwise animated.

Sadly, not everyone was pumped up over the new feature. Print designers had no interest or need to animate their layouts. Then came Apple’s decision not to allow Flash on iOS phones or tablets. That was the death knell for SWF and InDesign animations.

So after the initial launch of CS 5.5, animations were rarely shown by Adobe employees, and I rarely taught them.

Introduction of CC 2014

And then InDesign CC 2014 was launched. Quietly, the InDesign team had added support for exporting animations ...