Indesign automatic slideshow to publish online (epub)

[César0D4D]

Good morning all !

Do you know of a way in indesign cc2021 to create a slideshow that runs automatically without any button action when you export it with publish online. I tried with in5 plugin but it only works for html5 and the old DPS features (now window menu overlays) no longer work!

Thank you for your help

[Derek Cross]

InDesign's Publish Online is HTML5.

[steve5F9A]

Hi...did you find a way to do the automatic slideshow? I've got exactly the same issue...I want an automatic slideshow to publish online...

[rayek.elfin]

Create your slide show in an HTML5 project in Animate CC. Publish as an OAM file, and import this OAM file in your InDesign file. Publish online.

Voila, one auto-playing slideshow. We used to be able to use videos as an alternative (import a slideshow as a movie) but browsers no longer allow auto-playing of videos, unfortunately.

Here is a quick example and the project files are linked for you to inspect. The animation can be as complicated as you desire in Animate CC: In this case I just cut in each image.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/2c32883a-7d41-41ca-99c9-b4bbf0771fc9

Zipped files (InDesign & Animate CC project files included)

https://gofile.io/d/0b00VM

[Justin Putney]

in5 is a paid add-on to InDesign and offers multiple ways to create a self-running slideshow. Detailed here:

https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2023/08/31/how-to-create-an-html-slideshow-with-adobe-indesign/

Note: I am the creator of in5.