how to save an animated x-mas card that can be opened by everybody?

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hi everyone,I made a X-mas card in indesign which is animated (text dropping from above - rotating frames, etc).I saved my file as an .swf, but that doesn't work for people who don't have Flash...I don't see other possibilities which could do this job (save as: interactive PDF or epub? (the animation doesn't work automatically) )I want to email my card so that everybody who opens my mail sees my X-mas card, on any device (PC as well).indesign has no option like 'animated gif'...how can I fix this with the limited saving possibilities in indesign....karien

amaarora · Accepted Answer

the 'screen to gif' seems to be a windows-program, right? I'm a mac-user...

OK everybody, I got the message.

indesign wasn't a good idea... which is a shame, because it went smoothly to make the card.

to ACP:

how can SWF work if my clients do not have Flash installed on their computer?

I tried ePub as wel, but to me, that doens't support moving elements, does it?

Hi,

I meant make a screen recording of the animation using SWF panel of Indesign. Or export to publish online and make a video.

On mac this can easily be done using Quicktime player which comes installed.

Once done, save this as .mp4

Using any of the online tools( I have checked and there are many) convert this .mp4 to .gif

-Aman

macpawel · Answer

If you want to use your card as a part of email - use GIF file

But it's not possible in InDesign

You can export some screen to PNG Files and merge tchem as a GIF using Animate or Photoshop

But maybe it's better idea to use Adobe Animate or Photoshop from scratch instead of InDesign

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