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Need help with scrolling text panel in Indesign

Apr 6, 2012 3:16 PM

Tags: #help #text #indesign #scroll #please #scrollable #pan_zoom #text_frame

I am trying to create a scroling text panel in Indesign CS5.5. I have follwed the tutorial to the T but when I go to open my Overlay Creator panel the Pan and Zoom option is grayed out so I cannot click it and create the scrollable text. I have my text pasted into a rectangle and I just want to know how to make it scrollable. Thoughts?

1448 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: Bob Levine, Apr 6, 2012 7:02 PM
 
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  • Bob Bringhurst
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    1. Bob Bringhurst,
    Apr 6, 2012 3:57 PM   in reply to sprtman190
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    Did you use "Paste Into" to paste the text frame into the rectangle frame? Did you select the rectangle frame and then click the Pan and Zoom (v18 and earlier) or Scrollable Frame (v19)?

     
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    Apr 6, 2012 4:14 PM   in reply to Bob Bringhurst
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    Yeah I have used "Paste Into" to put my text frame in the rectangle frame. Then I select the rectangle frame and open the "Overlay Creator" window and it shows "360 Viewer", "Panorama", and "Web View" as the only options I can click. From my understanding you need to click "Pan and Zoom" to make it scrollable and that is option is grayed out.

     
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    3. Bob Bringhurst,
    Apr 6, 2012 5:29 PM   in reply to sprtman190
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    If you're seeing "360 Viewer," you're using an old, old version of the prerelease tools in which scrollable frames don't work.

     
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    Apr 6, 2012 6:39 PM   in reply to Bob Bringhurst
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    Thank you so much! I am officially up to date and all good. Now my only problem is that when I preview it directly from the overlay creator tab it works great, but when I try and preview it online, in a PDF, or in the normal preview window it does not scroll. Any thoughts?

     
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    5. Bob Levine,
    Apr 6, 2012 7:02 PM   in reply to sprtman190
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    It's a DPS feature only. Doesn't work with PDF or SWF.

     

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