Integrating Dynamic Illustrations in Publish Pro

Dynamic images and dynamic text (infographics or "illustrations") can be created in Illustrate and then added to presentations or publications. The dynamic illustrations that were created in Illustrate can be driven by the values selected from slicers. This includes changing color, size, rotation, volume, showing or hiding, and, in the case of dynamic text, changing value.

Tip: You can use the Open in Illustrate option on the right-click context menu to open images or text fields that were created in Publish Pro, using Illustrate. Once open, you can manage their dynamic properties there and save them individually.

This topic describes how you can use dynamic output from Illustrate in publications. Other dynamic options exist that allow you to replace variables with information about your publication or pull data from matrix grids into text fields, and so on.

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Configure dynamic assets

Before you begin

This topic is about integrating pre-existing dynamic infographics and text created in Illustrate into your publication. It assumes that these Illustrate files have been created in advance and made available for you to add to your publication from the Content panel.

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Step 1: Add illustrations and slicers

From the Content panel:

1. Locate your Illustrate dynamic infographic or dynamic text item and drag it onto the canvas.



Note: The infographic used in this example was created following the method described in Example: Configure the Color Property in Build Dynamic Images. The dollar symbol changes color in response to the value of sales, changing to red where the value is below 200,000, green where it is above 400,000, and yellow otherwise.

2. Add a slicer that you want to affect your dynamic asset.

For example, if you are adding an infographic that changes color based on sales, you might want to add a slicer that filters the sales by promotion category so that you can see the effect of changing that category on the color of this graphic.

Step 2: Create interactions

The dynamic asset and slicer are not connected by an interaction automatically. You need to create the interaction to make your selection from the slicer enable a response from the dynamic asset.

From the Interaction Manager:

1. Select the checkbox at the intersection between the Slicer and the Dynamic Asset (yellow arrow below):



The dollar symbol in our dynamic image will change color in response to the sliced value of sales.

2. Click F2 to build the publication with the following options:
   • PDF.
   • Build 1: Select Accessories from the Product Category slicer.
   • Build 2: Select Bikes from the Product Category slicer.

The PDFs are built, and the dynamic Dollar symbol changes color to reflect the sliced sales value.