[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Time reversing keyframes should work. Did you copy both keyframes before time reversing them?

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Change time remap mode from speed to frame number?

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Because you’re doing two effects that need to behave differently, you need to use two separate animators.

First animator value would increase throughout (tracking) and the other would increase then decrease (opacity).

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

I would bring it to Photoshop first and “burn in” the dropshadow, or, that failing, remove the original drop shadow and create a matching but separate layer in normal blend mode filled with transparent black for the shadow. Then bring in the Photoshop file instead. Make sure it is high enough resolution for your needs (based on closest closeup).

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Doesn’t it just convert when opening?

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Slowing the audio down some might help. The reverse of “chipmunk” effect.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Doing right-to-left text in InDesign requires InDesign ME (Middle East) features activated. See here:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2318233

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Can you upload a couple of pages from the document before the issue has been fixed, and I can take a look at how I would approach it?

Might be best to send the Word doc, so I can see if there’s some way to avoid the problem coming into InDesign.

The likely solution is a rather complex search which would look for any and all of those characters in one go, that you would save somewhere in a text doc and copy&paste to the search field.

In any case, seeing the exact problem you’re dealing with would ensure I understand the problem fully.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

1) Add a layer mask and draw the gradient on it.

or

2) Use the layer below as a clipping mask.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/clipping-masks.html

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

You want to figure out which property tells you that you are close to the position where you would scale (or move) the layer. I would expect that to be a specific rotation value of the layer. Let’s say the angle when the layer is at the right position is 90 degrees. You want to figure out how close to that rotation value the layer is and scale (or move in z space, if you prefer) based on that, within a given range. Let’s assume the range within which you want the scaling to happen is plus/minus 5 degrees. Then at 85 (or below) and at 95 (or above) degrees the scaling effect would be 0 and at exactly 90 degrees it would be 100. This means you want to convert the distance from the value 90 to the effect strength. Which, per my logic, would be:
my_effect_strength = linear(Math.abs(90-current_angle), 0, 5, 100, 0)
You would use that result as the multiplier for the effect you want to do — scale or z offset, or whatever works — added to current value.
You can use ease() instead of linear() for a smoother motion, but there are a couple of more values involved. Check the expression reference.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer