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Keeping Multiply effect on animations - InDesign

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July 2, 2021
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Hi,

I am trying to create an animation on InDesign and one of the animated objects has the Multiply effect, however, when I add animation to it, the effect disapears. Is there a way to keep Multiply after the animation is applied?

Thank you

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L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Daniela,

keep us informed how it goes.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Dtad,

I'm stll not clear how the multiply effect should work when all moving objects come together.

Can you show the object in Illustrator selected with the panel showing how the effect is constructed?

I would do the following:

Text around circle: Do it in Adobe Illustrator, export to SVG with text as outline SVG shapes, place the SVG in InDesign.

Three circle elements: Also do individual SVG files and place them in InDesign.

Multiply effect: Do that like Diane suggested with InDesign.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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DtadAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you, I am new to this and wasn't sure how best to save the illustrator files and place them on InDesign. I will have a go together with Diane's suggestion.

Regards,

Daniela

L

Laubender

Community Expert

How and where did you do the text along that circle?

You can see that the quality of the rendering of that text is extremely bad.

Did you do this with InDesign? With Illustrator?

Note: All placed graphics, PDF pages, InDesign pages and AI files will be rendered to pixels when published online.

One exception: Placed SVG files.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Diane Burns

Inspiring

Here's an idea:

Multiply displays in Publish Online when there is no animation on it. Simple example here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/ec3a26eb-9b2d-4639-8dde-f08e0e47540d

Expanding on Uwe's idea, create a stationary version of the final appearance you want (you could even do this in InDesign) and have it fade in or appear on top once the cirlcles come together.

Diane Burns

Inspiring

Actually, you can't animate the final object or you'll lose the multiply effect.

Here's a slightly modified idea:

Have the final result on the page, no animation.

Cover with Paper-color rectangle (or circle, whatever fits in your design and hides the final result).

Do your animation with the three circles. At the end, set the animated circles and the Paper-color rectangle to Disappear or Fade Out. Have to do some finessing in the Timing panel.

Haven't tested, but may be worth a shot.

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Dtad,

can you post the link to your Publish Online document so that we can have a look?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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DtadAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hi,

Thank you for your replies.

I have created the four circles on illustrator and kept the Multiply blend mode then placed these on InDesign. I still can't get the multiply effect on the animation.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/163c2faf-03a1-42fc-b753-f1785a0c244e

BobLevine

Community Expert

Which part of the advice you've gotten do you not understand. You can't work around something that doesn't work at all. Don't use blend modes with HTML output.