animations at digital publishing

[panosr56519810]

Hello , i am working a digital magazine for my university and i uses some animations like spin and fade in.. nobody of them can work at the fianl preview! can somebody expalin me how to make them work? thank you

[Derek Cross]

Which version of InDesign and OS do you have and which format is the final output to be?

[panosr56519810]

i use indisigne cs6 in windows 10 and the output is digitalpublishing for ipad

[Derek Cross]

Which digital format are you exporting to?

[panosr56519810]

DPS

[BobLevine]

You cannot use native animations in DPS without first converting them HTML.

[panosr56519810]

thank you very much , but im a new user so i dont undertand how i could do that! could you explain me please?

[BobLevine]

What are you hoping to accomplish with DPS? You may well be wasting your time.

[panosr56519810]

I have to create an interactive tablet magazine and present it to my school

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Recent versions of InDesign allow you to produce formats like Publsh Online, which can include animations. You can't do this with InDesign CS6. In any case, the animations you describe might be described as overrated and become irritating to the reader. I suggest you produce your magazine as a PDF - it can be read on any device that has the Acrobat reader, is it easy to produce, if you know InDesign, and it can include hyperlinks to other parts of the magazine and to external websites, even some transitions, which may work on some platforms!

[panosr56519810]

Thank you!

[michelad19794771]

You can create beautiful interactive presentation with video, audio, animations and hyperlinks to read on computer and mobile (tablet and smartphone) using InDesign CC2015 and above. The format is .ePub fixed layout. 🙂

[BobLevine]

Were you told to use DPS?

[panosr56519810]

my teacher

[BobLevine]

It saddens me to hear that.

There is virtually zero reason to be teaching this today.

[panosr56519810]

what do you think would be better for my result?

[BobLevine]

It really depends on the goal but if it’s to work with InDesign interactive features than Fixed Layout EPUB, but that will require an upgrade to Creative Cloud.

[Derek Cross]

You should tell your teacher that DPS has been dropped by Adobe and has now become DEM (Digital Experience Manager) and it's only affordable by huge, wealthy corporations and publishers.

As mentioned, encourage your teacher to upgrade to InDesign CC2015/2017, where you have access to digital formats such as Reflowable Text ePub, FXL ePub and Publish Online.

[Alexandre Becquet]

Yes, if you can upgrade to creative cloud with Publish Online. I Think it's the first good Way to put animated docs online after with more skills, the EPub Will be yours

It saddens me to hear that.

There is virtually zero reason to be teaching this today.

I'm French and completely agree with you !