Indesign animation timing reversed when duplicating

[Russ W]

When a page or artwork containing animation is duplicated or copy and pasted the timing panel ends up reversed and unlinked.

This is becoming quite an issue for us as it effects workflow, having to reorder animation timings and relink.

Seems like a bug that shouldnt need to happen.

[Laubender]

Hi Russ,

this is an old bug. Reported years ago. No solution or fix yet.

I once tried to write a script to work around the issue, but I failed.

FWIW: Scripting the timing features is very difficult or sometimes impossible because of bugs in the feature.

Copying animations and keeping the timing intact
Phil_Saldai, Apr 07, 2019
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/copying-animations-and-keeping-the-timing-intact...

Animation order scrambled after Move method
Keith_Gilbert, Mar 20, 2018
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/animation-order-scrambled-after-move-method/td-p...

Diane Burns did a bug report on UserVoice about the issues with moving, duplicating, copying animations and the problems that arise with the timeline.

Please vote for fixing the issues; everyone who is affected:

Copying animations loses timing panel settings
Diane Burns, Apr 9, 2019
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/37324315-copying-animat...

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

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