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Overlap page— this applies to multipage animations. With Overlap pages unchecked, you see
each page separately in sequence. When checked, each page pulsate out of the previous page.
Ripple options:
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This gives the effect of the text bobbing up and down character by character when in text mode.
In other design modes (such as button) the entire design moves.
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Amplitude—sets how far the characters or design go up and down.
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Direction— sets the direction in which the animation starts (most noticeable on text designs).
Fade options:
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Fade in—the heading emerges from the background color.
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Fade out—the heading merges into the background color.
Step options:
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This displays a series of static (non-rotation) headings in a multipage animation.
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Frame duration—how long to display each page in the animation.
Typewriter options:
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The text appears as sequential characters, the same effect as you would get by typing in the
characters.
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Frame duration—the delay between characters.
Pulse options:
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This enlarges or shrinks each character in turn through the text message.
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Frame duration—how long to display each character for.
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Size—the percentage size of the pulsed character. 100% is no change.
Wave options:
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An option for Rotate 2, Swing, and Pulsate animation types. Wave is particularly effective with
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Pulsate.
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Wave looks best with longer lines of text. The effect is that of a wave flowing along the text.
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%—how large to make the wave.
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Direction—the wave direction for single line headings is only horizontal. (Both buttons dimmed.)
The wave direction for multiple line headings wave is either horizontal or vertical
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