Create flip book/online catalogue

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August 18, 2014
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I've checked almost every possible way to do this. But not found a simple and effective way to do it. The issue is making a simple flip book of a InDesign document, which i can upload to a server. I need it to flip pages, have working links and the possibility to zoom in and out. Is this possible in InDesign or any other Adobe software. Everything I've found until now I have to know coding or buy some expensive software. I need something quick and easy

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

I use FlippingBook | Original Software and it's very good - but it's flash based.

I did find another one called Digital Publishing Software, Create Online Magazines | ePaperFlip which is html5 - but it hosts on their servers and does, to host on your own servers there's a fee.

You basically use a PDF - as long as the contents are bookmarked it's picked up and linked correctly.

Blissful_Songbird15D5

Participant

How familiar are you with the epub format? Other than the zoom-in/zoom-out, I think it could do what you need, and you can export a fixed layout epub from InDesign.

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Hvale-6883tkAuthor

Participant

I've tried the epub format, but the links doesn't seem to work?

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Doc Maik

Legend

a) Indesign's standard tools for page transition, animation and interactive PDF export should be able to do that, but that's not comfortable and probably not what you need.

b) Create your Indesign document, export it to PDF and use a flipbook template (SWF, HTML), which can load PDFs. There are a lot of creator tools for that way. One example: Top PDF To Flipbook Converter, PDF To HTML5 3D flipbook free | FlipHTML5