Tutorial 5: Animations

1.      Launch PhatPad on either the desktop or your mobile device.

2.      Open a new or existing note that you want to animate.

3.      Add or create a note with multiple pages.

4.      To animate your pages, click on the Animate Icon , press the F10 hotkey, or select Animate from the View Menu. 

The animation screen appears.

5.      To start your animation, click on the Play button  or press F5.  The window will show each screen in succession.

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6.      To stop the animation, click on the Stop button  or press F10.

7.      To automatically replay the animation upon reaching the last page, click on the Continuous Play button .

8.      The three navigation buttons on the left side of the Animation Mode toolbar  allow you to go back to the first page, step forward, and step backward through each page, one page at a time.

9.      To change the animation options, click on the Options button .  The Animation Options dialog will appear.

From the dialog you can set several options:

Note:  This is not the actual frame rate; depending on the amount of data (ink) on the page and the performance of your computer it might take a noticeable amount of time for each page to load if antialiasing is enabled. The time that is required to load the page is added to the delay time specified in this box.

When done setting your options, click OK.

10.  To return to the main PhatPad window, click on the Exit button  or press ESC.

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