Publishing a document Online with flipbook effect

[lindad76907493]

Is there a way to publish a document online with a page curl or flipping book page turning effect?

[BobLevine]

If you search around you'll find most of us advising against it unless there's a very specific reason for it. If you give us more details on what you're going to do, I can offer better advice.

[lindad76907493]

Hi Bob

Do you think it is not good practice to publish online from indesign instead of using flippingbook or isssu.com?  I'm looking for a free alternative, and thought i could use indesign and add some animations (bringing images in from right or fade in) to make the publication more interesting.

[BobLevine]

I think Publish Online is brilliant but for me, I prefer to control where anything is hosted. Using in5 would let you do a lot more than even InDesign allows natively and would also create files you could host anywhere.

That out of the way, it's all about content. Do you have a website already? Is it Wordpress based? If so, there's a number of plugins that will allow you to upload a PDF and add the effect that way. 

[lindad76907493]

Hi, could explain what in5 is?  is it an app?  It would be great to upload to my website instead.  I'm not sure if my website is wordpress based, i didn't create it.  

thanks

[lindad76907493]

Sorry, another questions, do you know if you can host on adobe indefinitely?  will is stay up there or will it be removed after a time?  also, is there a limit to how many docs can be uploaded?

thanks

[BobLevine]

Find out if it's Wordpress. If not, find out what it is.

[lindad76907493]

I will have a look and see what i can find out. thank you

[lindad76907493]

My website is not Wordpress.  I see with in5 you have to purchase a subscription, I was looking for a free alternative.  

[Derek Cross]

in5:

https://ajarproductions.com/pages/products/in5/

[lindad76907493]

thank you for this link, i will investigate

[Derek Cross]

There are a  number of third-party apps such as:

http://fliphtml5.com 

https://www.paperturn.com/

[lindad76907493]

Thank you Derek, I am familiar with these apps, but I was looking for a way within Adobe.  I have published online from indesign and added some animations which may sufice.  

Thank you for your reply, i appreciate it.

[Derek Cross]

If you add a "?" to the end of your InDesign Publish Online URL it will give you a transition effect to your Publish Online documents on desk-top browsers.

Source: Diane Burns

[hammer0909]

This functionality at one time existed in InDesign but it was based on Flash. Now that Flash has been removed, that feature is no longer available.