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I saw this post<\/strong><\/a> on the web. Its a bit suspicious because it talks about Free flipbooks and then promptly recommends one that is so limited in its free version that he needed to be paid to promote it, but has not declared that fact. A good article otherwise.<\/p>\n Flipbooks can be used like on-line magazines, very well finished and you leaf through the pages to find what you want.<\/p>\n They are basically a multi-page PDF compiled into one file. Some even have animation features.<\/p>\n Examples HERE<\/strong><\/a> from PUBHTML5<\/p>\n There is an issue on size. The bigger they are , the slower they are to load.<\/p>\n There is also the platform, some are Flash viewable others are not. I am steering clear of flash personally.<\/p>\n 1\/ A library of data on specific buildings, such as a set of pans\/elevations etc for a building, or possibly an Operational & Maintenance Manual. Having the flipbook embedded on a page so that it can be:<\/p>\n 2\/ After playing with them I found that instead of PDF’s I could post images with links, a bit like a photo gallery now I think about it. I thought that would be great to show the 3D PDF’s of buildings that people could download from my property site.<\/p>\n My ethos is you should have control over your information, so I am not too keen on these offerings.<\/p>\n I prefer the latter types, they are not as sophisticated in ways, but you have much more control over them.<\/p>\n I have an example site showing some of each, with roughly the same file so you can compare them, go HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n I particularly like the 3D FlipBook (apart from the sound, but I’m hoping to find some code to silence that<\/em>).<\/p>\n I also used the WP-Booklet on this site to use images to show the 3D PDF’s of buildings. This one has a lovely link that you can use to take you to the actual file. See the demonstration page HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n End Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n In some ways flipbooks are just pretty versions of WordPress Plugin PDF Embedder Free<\/strong><\/a> as demonstrated HERE<\/strong><\/a>. They do look a little more stylish though.<\/p>\n I think I need to explore the Image Gallery Links to see if that is a simpler method of showing 3D PDF file images with links. Maybe a little less overhead on the website regarding the number of plugins. I’ll wait until someone asks me to build one though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw this post on the web. Its a bit suspicious because it talks about Free flipbooks and then promptly recommends one that is so limited in its free version that he needed to be paid to promote it, but has not declared that fact. A good article otherwise. Flipbooks can be used like on-line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-pdf-data-access","category-drawings","category-visualisation","category-wordpress"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/im47.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/im47.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Max Drake","author_link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/im48-1024x632.jpg\")
<\/p>\nMy interest in them is twofold:<\/h4>\n
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Flipbooks seem to fall into 2 categories<\/h2>\n
1. Your Flipbook on their Server<\/h4>\n
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2. WORDPRESS PLUGIN<\/h4>\n
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