Different Methods for Making Flash Flipbooks

Flippingbook, a sleek-looking effect, was originally an animation technique. Now the flipbook is widely used in e-publishing industry for making life-like page turning ebooks. Once reader unveiled the ebooks on PC or mobile, it can automatically turn pages with picturesque page flicking animation. Recently, the special page flipping transition is popular for enrich digital documents such as catalog, brochure, presentation and etc.

If you have finished a digital catalog or flyer, you can easily turn the static PDF document into an animate flash page flipping presentation with the PDF to flash converter for Mac application.

To search in Google with flipbook software, you will get a lot of tools for making page flipping books. Hereof, we will share 5 popular flipbook creation methods with you in this article:

1. Issuu
It is a famous online publishing and distribution center. Issuu offers a free service which is available for generating flipping books from uploaded PDF documents. To use the free service, you will need to register a free account beforehand. Then, you can upload PDF, enter name and description. When the conversion finished, you can follow the link to check your flipbook online.

2. jFlip Plugin
If you search in Google, you will get many jQuery flipbook plug-in such as imBookFlip, jPageFlip, Booklet, Turn.js and more. jFlip is a jQuery plugin which is capable of creating page flipping image gallery. Users can click flipbook page to flip gallery pages, or drag the page corner to turn to another page.

3. Adobe InDesign
It is a professional desktop digital publishing software developed by Adobe. With it, users can design layout for digital publications. Adobe InDesign can also be used to create flipbooks with self-customized layout and presets. You can follow the three steps to create a flipbook with InDesign:
A. launched Adobe InDesign and create a new document. Please do the presets in new pop-up dialog box. B. add content such as text and image. C. Export the digital document as SWF file. Afterwards, you will open the created flash flipbook with Adobe Flash Player.

4. Adobe Acrobat Professional
It is another application of Adobe Systems. It can be used to create, manipulate, print and merge files which are containing in PDF format. This Adobe application is also effective for creating page flipping book from your own PDF file. Steps are:
A. Go to File and click Open to load your PDF document. B. Click "Page Thumbnails", then right-click a page thumbnail to select "Wipe" as page transition. Click "Direction" to customize the book flipping direction. C. Use Speed menu to customize book flipping speed or choose auto flip. Afterwards, please apply the flipping page effect to all the pages. D. Now it's time to click OK button to generate flipbook from your PDF file. When conversion finished, you can preview the created flipbook.

5. Kvisoft Flipbook Maker for Mac
The Kvisoft Flipbook Maker is another PDF to flash Mac tool for making flash flipping books from PDF. It was widely used by Mac PC users for making page flipping catalogs, brochures and flyers. With the desktop flipbook application, users can create HTML, SWF, APP, EXE, ZIP flipbooks from ordinary PDF documents. Three steps for converting PDF to flash page turning ebooks:
A. Click Import button to load PDF file. B. Customize and Enrich reading interface of flipbook: table of contents, bookmark, zoom, share and etc. C. Output flipbook.

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