In this new digital publishing era, if you haven't heard of the digital page flipping effect in ebooks, then you may have already missed a lot in this area. The mobile and PC readers read ebooks online getting a realistic 3D page flipping animation that makes the reader experience refreshing and impressive. Unlike PDF ebooks, this kind of ebook never makes reader feel boring as it can bring an unprecedented reading experience with virtual physical book flipping style and multimedia content.
Is reading experience of PDF satisfactory enough?
On the current digital publishing market, Adobe PDF must be one of the most commonly-used document formats that people use for content distribution. Within a PDF viewer, you can use mouse wheel, drag the scrollbars or click bookmark to turn PDF pages vertically from top to bottom. Readers cannot get any fun during the reading process.
PDF document is presented in a printed look that readers cannot change or add anything. In some circumstances people are reading a PDF ebook of hundreds of pages, it's difficult to add own bookmarks.
When people create PDF document in Adobe InDesign, it's impossible to embed rich media files such as video, YouTube movie, animated photo gallery, audio or music into it. Maybe this is another important reason why digital publishers choose some third-party applications to facilitate the multimedia integration.
In addition to these points, some web-designer or digital book publishers may consider that PDF is not innovative enough to convey their content as it's static and lacking of interactivity.
If you are one of the ebook publishers, entrepreneurs, web-designers, trainers or teachers who want to enrich the reading experience of PDF documents, please continue to see the below content which you bring you several solutions to enrich PDF with flipping page effect.
3 Solutions to Make Interactive and Innovative Page Flipping PDF
1. Create page curling effect in Adobe InDesign
Digital publishers may don't know that Adobe InDesign CS4 also have the ability to create page curling effect for PDF files. It's called Page Transitions which will make the PDF page show in a PowerPoint-look with pages switching one by one. In Adobe InDesign CS 4, you can go to Page Transitions, then choose from the panel menu from where you can get a transition named Page Turn. However, this page turn transition is only available for SWF files.
2. Upload PDF to web-based services such as Calameo
This method would be easier comparing the above one. PDF authors only need to register a free account on website Calameo, then they can upload their PDF files, define the title and description, then they will get a link where the page flipping pdf is hosted. The process is easy and fast that nearly anyone can handle it. There are some other similar service such as Issuu which can do this for free.
3. Make PDF Turn Pages on desktop in Kvisoft Flipbook Maker
There is another way to make PDF turn pages like a realistic book with much more flexibility in customizing the reading interface and inserting rich media files(YouTube, music, audio, links...) to PDF documents. Some desktop flipbook software such as Kvisoft FlipBook Maker can do this, however, this is a shareware that users need to purchase it after 30-day free trial. A brand watermark will be added.
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