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Create a horizontal scroll
1 Apply the Scroll Text behavior (from the Text Animation behavior category) to the object
to animate.
For information on applying text behaviors, see Apply a Text behavior on page 677.
2 In the Scroll Text HUD or Behaviors Inspector, select Horizontal from the Scroll Direction
pop-up menu.
Because the Start O-Screen checkbox is selected by default, the object shifts o the Canvas to
the right for the beginning of the crawl. The text is positioned in a single line and Layout Method
is set to Crawl in the Layout pane of the Text Inspector. Change the direction, position, and speed
of the scroll in the Inspector or HUD.
3 Click the Play button.
The object crawls left in the Canvas.
4 To edit the text, double-click the text in the Canvas.
The text stops scrolling, and the scroll control becomes available at the lower edge of the text. To
continue playback, deselect the text by pressing Esc or clicking in an empty area of the Layers list
or Timeline layers list. For more information on scroll controls, see Layout controls in the Layout
pane on page 653.
5 To customize the scroll, adjust the parameters in the Behaviors Inspector.
For more information on Scroll Text behavior parameters, see Scroll Text controls on page 697.
Change the speed of the scroll in the Timeline
In the Timeline, do one of the following:
m Drag the behavior bar to the left to speed up the scroll.
m Drag the behavior bar to the right to slow down the scroll.
For more information about adjusting behaviors in the Timeline, see Behavior timing
overview on page 307.
Scroll Text controls
Use the parameters in the Behaviors Inspector to adjust the direction, rate, and position of
the scroll.
Parameters in the Inspector
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Scroll Direction: Use this pop-up menu to set the direction of the text scroll to Vertical
or Horizontal.
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Speed Control: Use this pop-up menu to set the speed of the scroll or crawl. There are three options:
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Automatic: The speed of the scroll is determined by the length of the behavior in the
Timeline. In other words, the length of the behavior determines how long it takes the
object to scroll or crawl across the Canvas. By default, the duration of an applied Scroll Text
behavior is the same as the object or group to which it is applied.
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Fixed: The speed of the scroll is based on the value in the Scroll Rate parameter (pixels per
second).
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Custom: Species the start and end positions (dened as osets from the current position) of
the scrolling object.
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