Flash things has been removed from In design 2020

[ms16026911]

Hi.. flash things has been removed from Indesign 2020, so how can i export swf file from Indesign 2020. is there any substitute for exporting SWF. Thank you

[Test Screen Name]

Are you aware that Flash Player will be closed down by the end of 2020? You may need to find a substitute for SWF, not a way of making them. 

[Derek Cross]

Use InDesign's Publish Online, in5 or FXL ePub (all these run on HTML5, Flash is obsolete).

[Motek AS]

I am completely new to this but I am trying out animation in indesign now. But I really don't know which file type to export as when selecting publish online. And I have no idea what in5 is :S Can you help?

[Test Screen Name]

InDesign is NOT the tool for animation. Not even slightly. Even less now that you cannot use SWF files in InDesign, nor anywhere else after 3 months from now. Suggest you reconsider your plans.

Publish Online is something you export to directly. See https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/using/publish-online.html

in5 is a commercial add-on. Google will find it.

[Motek AS]

Thank you. I found IN5 and see it is quite expencive. I will check out the other parts of my adobe pack if there are options already included. It is just for simple banner ads with a little animation, so nothing advanced. That is why I thought about using indesign initially.

[Test Screen Name]

Abolutely not for InDesign. Not for banner ads, not for animation.

Since SWF is going away the only format for simple animation on a web site now is GIF.  One tool that can make animated GIF (a special kind of GIF) is Photoshop, which is often the preferred choice for web banners too.

[BobLevine]

SWF is dead. What exactly do you need and maybe we can help.

[ms16026911]

i want to make swf file from indesign with interactive buttons. than k u for reply

[Geоrge]

You can install 2019 version in parallel to 2020 and do that "dirty" things.

[Test Screen Name]

"i want to make swf file from indesign with interactive buttons. than k u for reply" That may be what you want, but you need to change your plan today. Flash Player is going away FOREVER in less than a year. SWF is really, really dead, and that is why InDesign stopped making it. (Imagine if it still made a PDF and suddenly at the end of this year all your work stopped without warning!) No, give up SWF completely.

[Derek Cross]

Those who have the Creative Cloud Suite and want to produce animations for things like social media ads etc, should have a look at Adobe Animate, After Effects and Premiere. For animations in documents try InDesign's Publish Online or (at extra cost) the InDesign plugin, in5