My cover has no animation, but for instance, on the opening page with my welcome letter- I have a letter with a wax seal slide over and pop into the frame next to my text. When you turn the page- the image fades in and the text is scrollable- so that the entire article is there- you have to just drag as you read.
Other pages, I have random things pop into frame as you get through the article-- and it kinda adds to the mood. one page I have snow falling over the entire page-- another page, I have Christmas lights twinkling- another is central park with snow falling... it's kinda neat. Originally I planned on hiring actors and set up video for how-to's etc, but if it's being this wonky-- it's like, why bother.
In the fixed layout- I set it up to read landscape and when it loads, the animations where images slide into frame from the left- don't work-- they're basic animations-- nothing animated in photoshop etc, but-- its moreso images coming into focus or sliding in..
Simple stuff- but it doesn't like it.
WHen I saw the publish online-- that works.. When I publish there is works beautiful on kindle and ipad-- so I thought-- what if I disable the right click on my site (where people can get the link and share it) and at checkout there's a "button " in their account where they can goto the adobe document. On the ipad it masks the url in the browser but on my laptop-- it shows the url which can be copied and shared.
I did iframes and that was a pickle. It did the "read me" box -- didn't like wordpress.
Ultimately, I thought about making 2 -- one interactive and one without the interactivity that way if someone could't load the file, at least they could read it in standard form. Publishing without interactivity-- no problem.
I used to work in PR and I did their magazines-- but I haven't done the Interactivity and I was kinda excited to use it to tell these stories.
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