Animated Gifs are very common on Internet. You can get thousands of gifs just browsing the net or buying a not expensive clipart CD.
You can work with ANIGIFS like with any other objects – grouping them, moving them in layers, etc.
Experiment with the settings!
This is not all what you can do with the anigif!
Note: Anigifs takes more CPU than static pictures. You can use Anigifs in layers - be careful - the alpha transparent bitmaps takes more time to redraw - if you overlap Anigif and some Alpha transparent bitmaps - the gif will slow down.
Don't try to put too much on one page ! The anigifs are great for highlighting something special.
Animated Gif settings dialog:
Basic options:
| • | Lanbel: |
String represents the new object. |
| • | Info: |
Frames Number of frames in the gif (gif must have more than 1 frame to be animated) Disposal There are few types of animated gifs using different optimization – the number bigger than 0 shows the gif is using one of the optimization (keeping the first frame and showing only differences, keeping the prev. frame …) |
| • | Speed: |
Frame rate The rate in ms (the time between the frames) , it is the rate of first frame – other frames can have different rate Adjust Adjust the frame rate by percent (200% 2-times slower). Note: Speeding up the animation doesn’t have to have a desired effect all the time. Example: you have Frame rate 10 ms, you adjust the speed 50% (5 ms). No effect ! The 5 ms is not enough for the computer to redraw the frame. (Even the 10 ms is not enough!) |
Advanced options:
| • | Transparency: |
Automatic - Force You can choose how to create transparency in your image. Note - this goes beyond standard gif transparency, you can turn non-transparent gifs to transparent by forcing the transparent color. |
| • | Auto Play: |
The gif will start playing as soon as it will be visible |
| • | Loop: |
The gif will play in loop |
| • | After Last Frame: |
this works only if Loop is not selected. You can choose what to do when animation will reach its last frame. It could hide the object or run a script. |
If you Show anigif in your actions - anigif start animate from the first page, if you Hide it, it disappears.
In script, you can control more with next three GIF commands.