by morphingstar » Thu Jul 18, 2019 7:57 pm
Thanks, I copied your sample file, then was able to edit it. I did various tests, results implicit written below.
Scrolling text in OO Impress (Text-frame Format - Text - Animation)
Observed black rectangles moving in text area while SHOW is on.
It works well in editor while rectangular text (editor) frame width does not exceed slide width, text is multi-line.
The frame must be de-focused to take desired shape. When showing all text it might be multi-line. In my case it is.
Bad behavior while in SHOW. (black rectangles, long time empty).
Reasons:
1) Too many characters in text.
2) Text size (points) too large.
TRY: Extend the frame to the editor width, hence wider than slide. Limit number of characters to 1 line.
In SHOW this frame looks good, but the time while it is empty is very long.
It is not possible to make the start of the text visible while the end of the text is still seen.
In view of all these complications and uncertainty whether the slide will work on a different computer and screen size I discard this OO solution.
I hope to create a animated *.GIF instead. There the size limit bogs me, though there may be generators around which can handle more than 500 px.
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Goal:
I want to create slides with images and text. As the text between the images has not much space, is small I wanted to run the same text scrolling at the slide's top large and easy to read for more distant audience. I found 2 ways to scroll text.
a) All in one line, first English, then Spanish. (while editing the focused frame always shows multi-line.)
b) 2 lines, with a line break (enter key) at the language change.
Both cases only work well in edit mode.
In SHOW the first version a) takes a very long time between 2 runs. The 2nd version b) shows 2 lines as intended. Long time too.
Both versions are insulted with black moving rectangles.
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OO 4.1.6 on Win10. Member since StarOffice 7. Alternative name "morphingstar2" when other fails. Use Writer, Calc (as DB + Calc), Draw. Impress mainly for Eyedropper and animating GIFs. Updated 20190716.