Copying animations and keeping the timing intact

Hey Everyone, 

I might have discovered a partial solution. I added my thoughts over on this post with Keith Gilbert.

It's not perfect but seems to be working for me.

Please note this issue is already marked "Under Review" by the Adobe engineering team! If you are reading this, and concerned with this issue, please add your vote to the bug report:

Copying animations loses timing panel settings – Adobe InDesign Feedback

Hi Folks

I documented my process, I think it has worked in the sense I can copy animations to other documents. Please note its more of a workflow process when creating animations, it doesn't magically cure your existing animations.

Copying animations in InDesign

As others have posted, the timing gets all screwed up when you copy/duplicate animations by ANY method!

Since I have had to work around this and occasionally had no choice but to copy complicated animations, I take a screen grab of the timing panel on the original page, then copy the animation, then paste the screen shot of the timing panel on the new page so I can re-order everything again.

And yes, it is unfortunate to say the least that this has not been addressed. I could not find that it has been filed as a bug, so I did so. Please vote for this bug report, the more who vote the more Adobe pays attention.

Copying animations loses timing panel settings – Adobe InDesign Feedback

Hi Phil,

no chance. This feature is broken.

Just from the start when it was introduced in CS5, I believe.

Once Keith Gilbert and I tried something by scripting, but we had not much luck.

If you want the long story read here:

Animation order scrambled after Move method

Regards,
Uwe