The original Pageflip produced by Macc and modified by Steve Plamer has been enhanced to provide facilities for an interactive book. Such a book could be used for educational/entertainment purposes.
The features added were:-
Audio tracks
The audio tracks feature enables you to load tracks to play. Tracks can :-
- auto start
- repeat
- move to another track in a round robin queue
- play when a page opens
- play when a hotspot is clicked.
- fade in/out
You could have a background track(s) to the entire book or individual pages, add speach for toddlers.
Hotspots
Designed primarily for images pages, which cannot have buttons, clicking hotspots allow you to do any or all of these :-
- Nothing
- Open a web page
- play a sound track
- goto another page.
Restricted page flipping
This allows routing through an interactive book by trapping the reader with unturnable page boundaries.
My students needed to write a book with two possible animated endings - this feature meant that once the reader chose their ending they had to follow it through, or go back to the contents page and choose again.
Set start page
You can choose which page to open the book at. For some countries they start from what the europeans know as the back cover.
Page clickzoom
Clicking on a page can create a popup. This is intended to allow a lowres book to be created and to popup the hires page on demand.
Page Zoom sliders
Zoom sliders simply enlarge the page on screen.
Magnifyng glass
A magnifying glass can be placed on screen by pressing a key. The glass then follows the movement of the mouse.
Page Numbers
Page numbers can be added to the pages and positioned in a number of places.
Page Notes
Page notes are simply popup movieclips.
Any number of notes can be defined for a page. The notes appear when the page is visible and disappear when the page is turned.
Notes can be dragged (if you wish) or fixed. They can have entrance and exit transitions.
When you click on a note it can be configured to do any or all of these:-
- Nothing
- Open a web page
- play a sound track
- goto another page.
External Page flip sounds
These can now be configured as external sounds which are loaded when pageflip starts.
Contents Page
A popup contents page enables you to scroll through thumbnails of the pages and goto a page when clicked on.
A print button will pint all the pages of the book when the contents page is on screen.
Text search
Basic but allows you to specify keywords per page then search for the pages based on keywords - a popup set of thumbnails then appears and you can select the page you ant by clicking on it.
Tooltips
Tooltips can be configured for the page navigation buttons. You can enter the text in your own language. Currently multi-language tooltips do not exist.
Spreads
Spreads are double width pages. These allow you to make something more akin to a childs book where the text and pictures spread across both open pages.
Filters and Transitions
User definable filters and transitions can be applied to popups and page notes.