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This allows you to alter the animation on the border separately to the text, or you can select both to apply
the same settings to both.
Animation picker
Import from a number of pre-defined animation styles. A preview of each animation is available before
clicking open.
Style
Choose from a number of standard animation types, or import an animation using the animation picker
button (see above).
Please note: pulse and typewriter animations do not work on the board with holes
design.
Rotate options:
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Rotate 1 rotates all the text as one;
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Rotate 2 rotates each character. (Buttons have a single Rotate option.)
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Front face only—normally the animation shows only the front face of the text and not the back.
This looks better and makes the exported file smaller (because there's only half the number of
frames.)
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Rotate text/Rotate lights—select whether you want the text to rotate or the lights or both. You
cannot rotate the shadow as this would create very large files.
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Direction—selects the direction of rotation.
Swing options:
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Swing 1 swings all the text as one;
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Swing 2 swings each character. (Designs have a single Swing option.)
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Angle—how much you want the heading to swing.
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Angle check box—when selected the heading rotates through 180º. This button mainly applies to
multipage animations. With Angle selected, the animation moves to the next page after each
complete rotation (a complete left & right or up & down cycle). With Angle unselected, the
change to the next page is at the start of each swing (for example, as the heading starts to swing
left and then again as it starts to swing right). This means you can create animations with half the
number of frames as with
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Angle selected.
Pulsate options:
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Pulsate 1 pulsates all the text as one;
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Pulsate 2 pulsates each character. (Buttons have a single Pulsate option.)
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Minimum text size—how far back to pulsate the text.
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Shrink+Grow &
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Grow+Shrink—sets whether the animation begins be shrinking or growing.
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