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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Creating Animated GIF Images</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153188"><bookmark_value>cross-fading; creating cross-fades</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>GIF images; animating</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>animated GIFs</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><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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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149377" xml-lang="en-US">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>
<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3154657" xml-lang="en-US">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>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150250" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">To create an animated GIF:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148703" xml-lang="en-US">Select an object or group of objects that you want to include in your animation and choose<emph> Insert - Animated Image</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149601" xml-lang="en-US">Do one of the following:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145086" xml-lang="en-US">Click the <emph>Apply Object </emph>button 
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	</image> to add a single object or a group of objects to the current animation frame.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150860" xml-lang="en-US">Click the <emph>Apply Objects Individually </emph>button 
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	</image> to create a separate animation frame for each of the selected objects.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148391" xml-lang="en-US">In the <emph>Animation Group </emph>area, select <emph>Bitmap object</emph>.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154871" xml-lang="en-US">Use the animation timeline to specify the duration for displaying a frame and the number of times an animation sequence is presented (looping).</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154644" xml-lang="en-US">Enter a frame number in the <emph>Image Number</emph> box (left box).</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150756" xml-lang="en-US">Enter the number of seconds you want the frame to display in the <emph>Duration </emph>box (middle box).</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151182" xml-lang="en-US">Repeat the last two steps for each frame in your animation.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3151177" xml-lang="en-US">You can preview your animation by using the controls to the left of the <emph>Image Number </emph>box.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US">Select the number of times you want the animation sequence to repeat in the <emph>Loop count </emph>box (right box).</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145421" xml-lang="en-US">Select an alignment option for the objects in the <emph>Alignment</emph> box.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US">Click <emph>Create</emph>.</paragraph>
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