Creating Scrollable Frames was never easier
In digital publications like Magazine made with Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite, it has become popular let the reader scroll through sub-textes inside the layout.
In Adobe InDesign such scrollable content can easily be reproduced by pasting an Image into the layout, cropping it and apply “Pan only” in the Overlay Creator. Creating scrolling text frames was always a bit more complicated.
With the new authoring tools (v15, released Sept 1st,Win / Mac) , it is now possible to create these scrollable text frames with native InDesign functions.
This method takes advantage of InDesign’s “Paste Into” command (cmd+alt+v).
Just create an empty rectangle frame with the same width or your text frame (see below), align them that their upper left corners match (for best results), cut the text frame (cmd-x) and paste into the container frame.
Crop the container frame to any height you wish.
In the Overlay Creator, apply the “Pan and Zoom” function with a “Pan only” setting on the container frame.
et voila.
Preview your document quickly with the File > Folio Preview command.
—Johannes
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