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Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started with Edge Animate
Part II: Adopting Tools and Techniques
Part III: Formatting and Animating
Part IV: Putting Your Animation to Use
Part V: Creating Sample Projects
Part I: Getting Started with Adobe Edge Animate
Chapter 1: Introducing Adobe Edge Animate CC
Adobe Wants You to Create the Web
Collaborating with other publishing tools
Highlighting the Critical Features
Maintaining Browser Compatibility
Concerns with HTML5 and older browsers
What to do for Internet Explorer 8 and older versions
Compatibility with tablet and mobile browsers
Creating an Edge Animate Composition
Creating an outlined approach to your animation
Making symbols for frequently used elements
Animators, start your animating
Saving and exporting your animation
Presenting Your Project Online
Chapter 2: Discovering Awesome Features and Tools
Meeting Your Most-Used Animation Tools
Putting a spotlight on the Stage
Engaging the intuitive, accurate, and flexible Timeline
Exploiting Features That Interact and Adapt
Implementing interactivity intelligently
Using Symbols to make reusable objects
Incorporating responsive web design
Counting your multiple publishing options
Putting your best font forward
Working in your language of choice
Coding easily with the persistent code panel
Chapter 3: Working with a New Composition
Drawing and Editing Elements, Importing Images, and Writing Text
Editing the Corners of Elements
Part II: Adopting Tools and Techniques
Chapter 4: Using the Timeline for the First Time
Play, Rewind, and Fast Forward
Working with Keyframes and Animation Sequences
Copying and pasting keyframes and sequences
Finer Details of the Timeline and Stage Controls
Chapter 5: Working with Triggers, Actions, Labels, and Cursors
Associating labels with actions and triggers
Chapter 6: Embracing the Workspace
Clicking and Dragging the Panels
Moving a panel back to its original position
Manipulating the Panels and Frames
Saving a custom workspace view
The Constantly Changing Properties Panel
Specific properties for the Stage
Consistent properties for all elements
Specific properties for specific elements
Part III: Formatting and Animating
Chapter 7: Animating with the Transform Tool and Properties Panel
Transforming with the Transform Tool and Properties Panel
Turning a selected element into a transform selection
Transform elements have their own properties
Understanding the Center Transform Origin
Animating with the center point
Creating Animations with the Transform Tool
Animating the location of an element
Animating with the Transform Tool or the Properties Panel
Chapter 8: Formatting Element Visibility, Positioning, and Sizing
Setting the Visibility of Elements
Element Visibility on the Stage
Animating the visibility of elements
Adding scroll bars, hidden, visible, or auto
Configuring Positioning and Sizing
Chapter 9: Animating Background Color, Borders, Corners, Shadows, and Clipping
One, four, or eight different points
Chapter 10: Animating and Formatting Text Boxes
Chapter 11: Using the Elements Panel
Operating in the Elements Panel
Coordinating with the Timeline
Chapter 12: Using the Library Panel
Exporting and importing Symbols
Part IV: Putting Your Animation to Use
Chapter 13: Creating a Project Structure
Understanding the Files Edge Animate Creates
Creating Edge Animate Files for Use with Other Software Tools
Chapter 14: Preparing Your Animation for Publication
Guarding Against Internet Explorer 8 and Older
Choosing either the Immediate or Polite option
Using the Publishing Settings and Publish
Using the Edge Animate Deployment Package
Chapter 15: Putting Your Project on the Web
Posting Your Composition as a Standalone Page
Uploading your animation through your own hosted site
Uploading to your hosted site through FTP
Creating a new directory for your composition
Adding Your Project into an Existing Web Page
Putting Your Composition into a Joomla! Site
Part V: Creating Sample Projects
Chapter 16: Creating an Interactive Slideshow Animation
Overall Steps for Creating a Slideshow
Setting Up Images and the Stage
Chapter 17: Synchronizing Elements in an Animation
Drawing Elements onto the Stage
Synchronizing More than One Element
Chapter 18: Building an Interactive Tutorial
Animating the First Step of the Tutorial
Using clipping for the callout lines
Create segments in the Timeline for each step
Using Stage triggers to stop the tutorial from advancing
Creating the forward and back arrows
Chapter 19: Animating an Interactive Children’s Book
Creating a different text box for each element
Using shadow on text appropriately
Placing the next and back navigation
Building the table of contents
Chapter 20: Animating Navigation Menus
Creating the top-level menu items
Creating the sub-level menu items
Navigating with Mouseovers and Open URL Actions
Placing the artwork and the text
Adding the mouseover and open URL actions
Chapter 21: Building a Responsive Web Design
Using the layout defaults for responsive design
Using the layout preferences for a responsive web design
Testing Your Animation’s Responsiveness
Chapter 22: Ten Users of Edge Animate
Learning from Edge Animate Projects
Working with Edge Animate as a Professional
Using the Responsive Web Design Tools
Chapter 23: Ten Online Resources
Adobe Links to the Creative Cloud
Adobe Edge Animate CC For Dummies Online