Two distinct “flavors” of animation are available in Presentation layouts:

• An interactive object moving along a path: For example, a logo or other design element that slides across the screen. To create this kind of animation, you need two things: An Animation object that contains the object that will move along the path, and another object to define the path the object will move along. The Animation object can be just about anything, and the Path object can be a line or box in any shape.
• An image sequence in a box: For example, a spinning wheel, a blinking character, a running hourglass. To create this kind of animation, you must create a special kind of Interactive layout called an Image Sequence layout, which is simply a layout in which each page represents a frame in an animated sequence. You can draw the frames manually on each page using QuarkXPress tools, import each frame as a picture, or use a combination of both approaches. For more about image sequences, see “Creating an image sequence.”

You can also combine the two approaches to create an image sequence in a box that moves along a path; for example, you might create an image sequence of a spinning globe, and then use a circular path to make it move across the screen.

• Configuring an Animation object
• Creating an image sequence