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  36 <topic id="textsimpressguideanimated_gif_createxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  37 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Creating Animated GIF Images</title>
  38 <filename>/text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_create.xhp</filename>
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  40 <history>
  41 <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
  42 <lastedited date="2004-09-30T11:41:13">FPE: Cleaned. Needs rework (see last para comments)
  43 DEDR: Reviewed</lastedited>
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  47 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153188"><bookmark_value>cross-fading; creating cross-fades</bookmark_value>
  48 <bookmark_value>GIF images; animating</bookmark_value>
  49 <bookmark_value>animated GIFs</bookmark_value>
  50 </bookmark>
  51 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="55"><variable id="animated_gif_create"><link href="text/simpress/guide/animated_gif_create.xhp" name="Creating Animated GIF Images">Creating Animated GIF Images</link>
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  53 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149377" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">You can animate drawing objects, text objects, and graphic objects (images) on your slides to make your presentation more interesting. $[officename] Impress provides you with a simple animation editor where you can create animation images (frames) by assembling objects from your slide. The animation effect is achieved by rotating through the static frames that you create.</paragraph>
  54 <paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3154657" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="57">If you create a bitmap animation (animated GIF), you can assign a delay time to each frame, and specify the number of times the animation is played.</paragraph>
  55 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150250" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="58">To create an animated GIF:</paragraph>
  56 <list type="ordered">
  57 <listitem>
  58 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148703" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="59">Select an object or group of objects that you want to include in your animation and choose<emph> Insert - Animated Image</emph>.</paragraph>
  59 </listitem>
  60 <listitem>
  61 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149601" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="60">Do one of the following:</paragraph>
  62 </listitem>
  63 </list>
  64 <list type="unordered">
  65 <listitem>
  66 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145086" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="97">Click the <emph>Apply Object </emph>button
  67 <image id="img_id3148489" src="sd/res/get1obj.png" width="0.423cm" height="0.423cm"><alt id="alt_id3148489" xml-lang="en-US">Note Icon</alt>
  68         </image> to add a single object or a group of objects to the current animation frame.</paragraph>
  69 </listitem>
  70 <listitem>
  71 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150860" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="98">Click the <emph>Apply Objects Individually </emph>button
  72 <image id="img_id3149355" src="sd/res/getallob.png" width="0.423cm" height="0.423cm"><alt id="alt_id3149355" xml-lang="en-US">Tip Icon</alt>
  73         </image> to create a separate animation frame for each of the selected objects.</paragraph>
  74 </listitem>
  75 </list>
  76 <list type="ordered" startwith="3">
  77 <listitem>
  78 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148391" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="61">In the <emph>Animation Group </emph>area, select <emph>Bitmap object</emph>.</paragraph>
  79 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154871" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="99">Use the animation timeline to specify the duration for displaying a frame and the number of times an animation sequence is presented (looping).</paragraph>
  80 </listitem>
  81 <listitem>
  82 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154644" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="62">Enter a frame number in the <emph>Image Number</emph> box (left box).</paragraph>
  83 </listitem>
  84 <listitem>
  85 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150756" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="63">Enter the number of seconds you want the frame to display in the <emph>Duration </emph>box (middle box).</paragraph>
  86 </listitem>
  87 <listitem>
  88 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151182" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="64">Repeat the last two steps for each frame in your animation.</paragraph>
  89 <paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3151177" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="100">You can preview your animation by using the controls to the left of the <emph>Image Number </emph>box.</paragraph>
  90 </listitem>
  91 <listitem>
  92 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="65">Select the number of times you want the animation sequence to repeat in the <emph>Loop count </emph>box (right box).</paragraph>
  93 </listitem>
  94 <listitem>
  95 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145421" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="88">Select an alignment option for the objects in the <emph>Alignment</emph> box.</paragraph>
  96 </listitem>
  97 <listitem>
  98 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="101">Click <emph>Create</emph>.</paragraph>
  99 </listitem>
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