Editing animations
You can use the Open command to import an animated GIF file for
editing. You can edit the frames and save a new animated GIF file.
Importing an animation
1
Choose File > Open.
2
Select the animated GIF file and click Open.
3
A dialog box appears. Enter the first and last frames to import.
Click OK to import the frames into a new Animation document.
Placing animations
You can use the Animated GIF tool to insert animated GIF files into
Web pages that you design in Canvas. When you save a document as
a Web page, animations are exported and appear on the Web page.
To place an animation,
1
Select the Animated GIF tool. This tool is located in the Object
Tools palette.
2
Click in the document where you want to place an animation.
3
A directory dialog box appears. Select the animated GIF file to
place and click Open. Canvas inserts the file as an animation object.
To preview an animation, double-click the animation object. You can
select, move, cut, copy, duplicate and apply other commands, includ-
ing Rotate and Flip, to animation objects.
You cannot apply some effects, including Envelope and Extrude.
Commands such as Scale and Shadow can be applied, but they affect
only the bounding box, not the objects in an animation.
Creating Web pages from Canvas documents
Any Canvas document can be saved as a Web page. To export a doc-
ument as one or more Web pages, you can save the document in
HTML format.
Note: You should always save your documents in Canvas format
before you export Web pages. Saving in Canvas format means you
can edit the original and export again to change Web pages. Canvas
does not support opening and editing of HTML Web pages.
Tip
Whether you create animations
using Canvas or have animated
GIFs from other sources, the
procedure for placing them is
the same.