Flip pages effect

If you want the document to be viewed in full screen, but as a courtesy, you want to restore the screen preferences of the user back to the original settings. Place the following script as document JavaScript, it will be executed once and only once upon loading the document.

// Save the settings you plan to change.
var _clickAdvances = app.fs.clickAdvances;
var _defaultTransition = app.fs.defaultTransition;
var _escapeExits = app.fs.escapeExits;

// Change these settings.
app.fs.clickAdvances=true;
app.fs.defaultTransition = "UncoverLeft";
app.fs.escapeExits=true;
// Now, go into full screen.
app.fs.isFullScreen=true;

To restore the settings, place the following code in the Will Close section of the Document JavaScripts, located at Advanced > Document Processing > Set Document Actions.// Restore the full screen preferences that you changed.
app.fs.clickAdvances = _clickAdvances;
app.fs.defaultTransition = _defaultTransition;
app.fs.escapeExits = _escapeExits;


You can use JavaScript to customize how page transitions occur for any pages within a document. This is accomplished through the Doc object’s setPageTransitions and getPageTransitions methods.

The setPageTransitions method accepts three parameters:

nStart — the zero-based index of the beginning page
nEnd — the zero-based index of the last page
aTrans — a page transition array containing three values:
nDuration — the time a page is displayed before automatically changing
cTransition — the name of the transition to be applied
nTransDuration — the duration in seconds of the transition effect

On the last page you can add a button that will close the eBook.

thanks a lot

Just be aware that Acrobat/Reader's full screen does not work within a web browser, so you will not get the page flip affect if your clients are using a web browser.

Do you have an example of how this page flip appearance looks?

i.e a sample file?

I am trying to create a page flip effect similar to what you see on zmags.com

But I want it to be seen while viewing the document in the desktop browser.

Thanks,
Robert
NY

As a common user, you can visit http://www.axmag.com They make page flip effect both online and oflline. Also, it's easy to navigate from start to end and vice versa which may satisfy your need.

As a professional developer, you may need some open source for page flip. http://www.megazine3.de/doc/Category:Documentation . It's so complicated 2 me, which made me choose axmag as priority

The key thing I am looking for is the ability to create a Flash Like Flip book with realistic page turns while maintaining all my embedded web streaming videos and audio files.

I went to the axmag.com site and it says nothing about what happens to your embedded content. Ideally I would like to have it behave like an iPhone/iPad iBook that has realistic page turns and keeps the video and audio intact and interactive. Ideally all HTML5 compliant.

Any ideas?

In PDF it can't be done (rather in Acrobat and Reader it can't be done - the PDF specification would in theory accommodate something via the page transitions tag, but nobody has implemented it).

Every application that shows a visual page curl effect does it by displaying the entire document in Flash (they may [u]start[/u] with a PDF and convert it into a series of SWF/JPG files, but it's sure as heck not a PDF when you're viewing it).

What about the idea of a PDF to HTML5 compliant conversion page that has page curl effect like apple does on the iPad?

I have an indesign document which I export to PDF then add the interactive components too. I want to distribute this via the web and have it viewable via a browser. The issue is that the current pdf system does not have any realistic page turns so I am trying to find an alternative approach. Whether it be a script that can be added to the pdf or another option. Ideas?