| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Working with the Stage | |
| Introducing Adobe Edge Animate | p. 11 |
| Creating and Saving Edge Animate Projects | p. 11 |
| A Tour of the Animate Workspace | p. 13 |
| Building Your First Animation | p. 16 |
| Creating and Animating Art | p. 25 |
| Setting the Stage | p. 25 |
| Creating Art in Animate | p. 28 |
| Aligning, Distributing, and Arranging Elements | p. 36 |
| A Rectangular Animation | p. 38 |
| Rounded Rectangles: More than Meets the Eye | p. 43 |
| Adding Drop Shadows to Graphics | p. 45 |
| Clipping the Bits That Need Trimming | p. 47 |
| Importing Art | p. 47 |
| On/Off: Another Way to Show and Hide Elements | p. 53 |
| Adding and Formatting Text | p. 55 |
| Adding Text to Your Project | p. 56 |
| Changing Text-Specific Properties | p. 57 |
| Using Web Fonts | p. 61 |
| Changing Other Text Properties | p. 65 |
| Clipping Text Around the Edges | p. 66 |
| Making That Headline Drop In | p. 66 |
| Dealing with the Template | p. 71 |
| Adding Some Bounce | p. 72 |
| Adding Links to Text | p. 75 |
| HTML Tags in Animate | p. 77 |
| Part Two: Animation with Edge Animate | |
| Learning Timeline and Transition Techniques | p. 81 |
| Introducing the Timeline | p. 81 |
| Understanding Elements' Timeline Controls | p. 86 |
| Using Timeline Keyboard Shortcuts | p. 88 |
| Creating Transitions | p. 90 |
| Animating a Filmstrip | p. 100 |
| Dealing with Timeline Claustrophobia | p. 103 |
| Triggering Actions | p. 105 |
| Elements, Triggers, and Actions | p. 106 |
| Triggering Actions in Other Elements | p. 111 |
| Triggers and Actions for the Stage and Timeline | p. 113 |
| Timeline Triggers and Tricks | p. 118 |
| Sliding Show Revisited | p. 123 |
| Non-Linear Thinking and Design | p. 126 |
| Timeline Button Controls | p. 127 |
| Triggers for iPhones and Androids | p. 130 |
| Working Smart with Symbols | p. 131 |
| About Symbols | p. 132 |
| Building with Symbols | p. 133 |
| Nesting Symbols within Symbols | p. 137 |
| Working with Symbol Timelines | p. 138 |
| Animating a Symbol on the Stage 1 | p. 142 |
| Create a Button Symbol with Rollover Action | p. 144 |
| Moving Symbols Between Projects | p. 152 |
| Building a Drop-Down Menu System | p. 153 |
| Creating Text Callouts with Rollover Action | p. 154 |
| Edge Animate with HTML5 and JavaScript | |
| Working with Basic HTML and CSS | p. 165 |
| Reading HTML Documents | p. 166 |
| Reading CSS Files | p. 168 |
| Reading the HTML Animate Creates | p. 172 |
| Opening an HTML Document in Animate | p. 173 |
| Placing Your Composition in an HTML Document | p. 176 |
| Centering an Animate Composition | p. 178 |
| Placing Two Animate Compositions on the Same Page | p. 180 |
| Controlling Your Animations with JavaScript and jQuery | p. 185 |
| A Very Brief History of JavaScript and jQuery | p. 185 |
| Sleuthing Through the JavaScript Animate Creates | p. 187 |
| JavaScript and jQuery Basics | p. 194 |
| Natural Selection the jQuery Way | p. 200 |
| "this" and "sym" Are Special Words | p. 200 |
| Helpful JavaScript Tricks | p. 203 |
| More Showing and Hiding Tricks | p. 203 |
| Swapping Images in Animate | p. 211 |
| Identifying and Changing Elements and Symbols | p. 214 |
| Identifying Elements within Symbols | p. 221 |
| Playing a Symbol's Timeline | p. 224 |
| Using Conditional Statements | p. 225 |
| Appendixes | |
| Installation and Help | p. 235 |
| Menu by Menu | p. 239 |
| File | p. 239 |
| Edit | p. 242 |
| View | p. 245 |
| Modify | p. 247 |
| Timeline | p. 249 |
| Window | p. 252 |
| Help | p. 254 |
| Index | p. 255 |
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