Flip Books for PDFs

[Lisa Brennecke]

Has anyone used any Flipbooks which makes a pdf into a animated book with sound? Which software is best? Any isues with this? Thanks!

[Lane Joplin]

i've only tested this one, but it appears to work well http://issuu.com/

[Lisa Brennecke]

Has anyone else tried http://issuu.com/?

[Alison Smyth]

We've just started using issuu. Seems to be a really good service. Gets the big thumbs up from our users. And it's very easy to upload content for our PR people.

[Erik Hagen]

We've used Issuu for a few things, notably the university magazine, and I really like it. We're considering using it for other publications. The only thing I wonder about is if the novelty of the interface will wear off quickly and become less efficient than Acrobat. We have had some issues uploading PDFs to Issuu - things improperly formatted and images missing. It required us to do some workarounds in InDesign specifically for Issuu.

[Jeanette I. Johnson]

My College has reviewed Issuu and our concern is the text is not crisp and clear unless you zoom in. And the color of the text within the publication makes a big difference. The lighter the text the harder to read, the darker the text the easier to read.

I am presently reviewing Uniflip at http://www.uniflip.com/ and the text and images seem to be clearer and crisper with this product. I have not done the cost comparsion between the two products/subscriptions, yet.

[Steve McConnell]

Do Issuu or Uniflip or any other similar tools produce publications that are accessible to disabled users (limited visibility and/or limited motor control)?

[Alexa Smith]

How is searching handled for these services? We have looked at a few similar products and are still trying to find one where the content is search-friendly. It's one thing to search from the site, but we want the content within to be found within a Google search.

[Michael Plyler]

We've used FlippingBook: http://page-flip.com/
One-time cost, fairly easy to edit. Works very similar to an issuu site.

[David White]

We are currently using Issuu and it's great. However, we are using it only as a "fluffy" option for two reasons:

1. People are familiar with standard PDF's and let's face it everyone is comfortable with something they are familiar with.

2. We tested an Issuu publication with a couple of different blind browsers and the results were not favorable. Blind browsers, for blind users of our website, handle PDF's generally without problems.

What we do is offer a link to the fluffy Issuu publication along with the a link to a standard PDF.

Here's some examples:

http://www.actx.edu/ce
The image of the schedule catalog is a link to the Issuu publication, the link at the bottom of the image is a link to the PDF.

http://www.actx.edu/collegerelations/pluggedin



David White
Amarillo College
Web and Communications Specialist
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[Naveen A]

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