Adobe Community: Someone be my Hero! (Slideshow in Overlay Creator)

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1. Bob Bringhurst,

Feb 9, 2012 3:12 PM in reply to wademerr123

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The slideshow options in the Overlay Creator panel don't show up if a frame within the slideshow is selected. If you click outside the slideshow and then click it again, the dashed lines should appear. The panel options should then be available. Is that the issue?

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2. Johannes Eckert,

Feb 9, 2012 3:15 PM in reply to wademerr123

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also, the overlay creator only reacts to the selected MSO if it sits on the layout, not outside on the pasteboard.

—Johannes

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3. wademerr123,

Feb 9, 2012 3:51 PM in reply to Bob Bringhurst

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Hi Bob,

The problem is not that the slideshow options do not appear. I have created my images into object states (in the Object States panel) and can even assign buttons to them which, when pressed, bring up the next slide. And, when I select the images (object states), the Slideshow panel in the Overlay Creator does show up — that's all good. The bug is: the options in the Slideshow panel are not working. None of the boxes "check" when I click on them. I'm trying to "check" the Swipe to Change Image box but it won't check (as well as all other boxes).

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4. Johannes Eckert,

Feb 9, 2012 3:53 PM in reply to wademerr123

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do you notice a brief checking and instant un-checking? I saw that one day

on another machine. Solution was to open and close InDesign, but I am sure

you tried that, too.

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5. wademerr123,

Feb 9, 2012 4:04 PM in reply to Johannes Eckert

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Hey Johannes,

Yes, sometimes (on certain check boxes) there was a flittering moment of it being checked, then it unchecked immediately afterward. I've quit InDesign and also deleted prefs, but no good. Any other ideas. I'm running CS5 on a MacPro with the latest Lion OS. Possibly it's a CS5 update issue? Maybe CS5.5ers don't have this problem?

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6. Johannes Eckert,

Feb 9, 2012 4:10 PM in reply to wademerr123

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hmm, no, can't say how we fixed that exactly, sorry.

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7. wademerr123,

Feb 9, 2012 4:14 PM in reply to Johannes Eckert

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ok, thanks anyways.

Jason Merrill

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8. hnoddings,

Feb 9, 2012 4:24 PM in reply to wademerr123

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I've found that closing the panel window itself, then re-opening it works. I've had the same issue with the Overlay Creator, as well as the Folio Builder. Hope that helps you too!

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9. wademerr123,

Feb 9, 2012 5:06 PM in reply to hnoddings

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Tried it. Didn't work. Thanks though.

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10. Tomek Kuczborski,

Feb 9, 2012 10:28 PM in reply to wademerr123

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For me they don't work sometimes also.

I was curios to find out what's going on, and the reason was simple. The options are active only when all states are chosen in MSO panel. With any single state chosen – the slidesdhow options are grayed out. I suspect that this behavior was introduced lately, as I noticed it as something unusual.

Either this is as designed, or a bug. No idea;-)

Tomek

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11. wademerr123,

Feb 10, 2012 10:06 AM in reply to hnoddings

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Tried that - doesn't work for me.

Jason Merrill

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12. wademerr123,

Feb 10, 2012 10:13 AM in reply to Tomek Kuczborski

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Tomek,

Thanks for your input. I don't get one thing though: I don't see how you can select all of the states in the object states panel. It won't allow me to. I can only select one state at a time — trting the shift-select doesn't work.

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13. Tomek Kuczborski,

Feb 10, 2012 10:18 AM in reply to wademerr123

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On the top bar of the Objects States panel you see the bare with the name of the MSO. To the right there is an icon of two intersecting squares. Clicking it choses whole MSO and enables input into Overlay Creator. At least for me;-)

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14. wademerr123,

Feb 10, 2012 10:30 AM in reply to Tomek Kuczborski

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Thanks Tomasz, Still doesn't work though. I selected the icon you're referring to but it still won't work. Maybe the next update will handle this issue with me.

Jason Merrill

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15. less-but-better,

Feb 22, 2012 11:57 PM in reply to wademerr123

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I had this problem too until I tried deTabbing the Overlay Creator panel from the Folio Builder panel. They were together in the same panel as tabs. Putting it on its own fixed the inability to check the check boxes.

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16. avgbear,

Apr 5, 2012 9:35 AM in reply to less-but-better

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That did it! A couple of times I could restart InDesign and it would fix it, but just pulling the Overlay Creator panel out by itself worked. Thanks!

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17. Laubender,

Apr 5, 2012 12:03 PM in reply to avgbear

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@avgbear – On which version of DPS are you seeing that problem?
v18 or v19 ?

Or on a mixed-up one (FolioBuilder v19, Overlay Creator v18)?

Uwe

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