How to make object movement (Interactive PDF)

[Aelus Heng]

Greetings,

I have a question regarding how to make object move in adobe indesign, I search in google and youtube, I only found some tutorials that teach how to make page and button interactive. Is it unable to make object movement like this (the image I attached) in Indesign CS6, or require others Adobe suites to make it.

Thank you and really appreciate.

[manal shanableh]

Hi,

you can draw a line ( the path for the movement), select them all ( in my example is a circle i want it to move along with the path, right mouse click> Interactive> Convert to Motion Path.

the line will be disappear and will be converted to a motion path.

now from animation panel fill the event: on page load, on page  click....

duration and play times and speed.

[manal shanableh]

to preview your animation:

Window> Interactive> SWF Preview

[manal shanableh]

the animation must be exported as Flash Player (SWF).

then insert the SWF file into your indesign again to export it to ADOBE PDF (INTERACTIVE).

if you exposed it direct to PDF interactive will not work.

[Derek Cross]

I'm not sure that would play on many devices.

[Aelus Heng]

Thank you very much manal shanableh, I will try it and see whether I did it correcty. Thank again manal

[vinny38]

Hi

I am definitely not an interactive PDF expert, but I intend to believe that Animations features like motion path would not work in a PDF.

If I had to do it, I would create an animated GIF, and export it in Photoshop as a video File (.mp4 or .mov), then use the InDesign Window > Interactive > Media to import the video. (see Add movie and sound files to InDesign documents)

Of course, as usual, the PDF should be viewed with Acrobat (reader or pro)...

Now, let's wait for experts advises... ^^

[Aelus Heng]

Thank you very much vinny38, that was the 1st thing came in my mind. Now I'm going to try it

[@mj]

1. Use After Effects for this
2. Export an mp4 file from After Effects
3. Place the mp4 file into InDesign
4. Export to Interactive PDF

Attempting to do it in ID is akin to asking a logger to play Beethoven's fifth  imho.

HTH

[Aelus Heng]

hahaha, nice Beethoven. Thank you master mo, but sadly my company doesn't have Aftereffect, so what I can do is like vinny38 said, insert gif file,

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

Unless you want to make yourself completely crazy disregard all of the posts you've seen here (with the exception of Vinny's wait for an expert advice).

Interactive PDF does not support animations and all you've gotten are kludges that won't work on mobile devices or many desktop browsers. SWF is a dead end and using a video is a flat out crapshoot.

Later versions of InDesign can create Fixed Layout EPUB or publish to Publish Online which support animation.

[Derek Cross]

I did say: "I'm not sure that would play on many devices".

[BobLevine]

Be sure. It won't!

[Steve Werner]

I'll support Bob:

1. Animations have never been supported in interactive PDF.

2. Interactive PDF has increasingly become problematic because most people are now viewing PDFs files in web browsers and mobile devices which can only display the simplest of interactivity (if that).

3. Forget SWF, forget interactive PDF except for the simpest cases, and use Fixed Layout EPUB and Publish Online.

[Derek Cross]

Absolutely, but the OP will need to upgrade from InDesign CS6 to InDesign CC2017/2018 to be able to access FXL ePub and Publish Online.

[Steve Werner]

Unless original poster chooses to upgrade to InDesign CC, they're basically shut out from doing animations in InDesign in any practical way.

[Aelus Heng]

Thanks for your advice BobLevine, I'm already insane while I got the brief to do e detailing aids by using LIMITED CS6 software. Let me try what I can do with vinny and manal's way and see what my manager say. Thanks again Bob