Create flip book/online catalogue

[Hvale-6883tk]

I've checked almost every possible way to do this. But not found a simple and effective way to do it. The issue is making a simple flip book of a InDesign document, which i can upload to a server. I need it to flip pages, have working links and the possibility to zoom in and out. Is this possible in InDesign or any other Adobe software. Everything I've found until now I have to know coding or buy some expensive software. I need something quick and easy

[Doc Maik]

a) Indesign's standard tools for page transition, animation and interactive PDF export should be able to do that, but that's not comfortable and probably not what you need.

b) Create your Indesign document, export it to PDF and use a flipbook template (SWF, HTML), which can load PDFs. There are a lot of creator tools for that way. One example: Top PDF To Flipbook Converter, PDF To HTML5 3D flipbook free | FlipHTML5

[Hvale-6883tk]

And the links doesn't work in swf either.

[Hvale-6883tk]

Thanks for the tips.

The links doesn't work because the urls have a red dot on it in the hyperlinks panel in InDesign. Anyone know why that happens?

[Petteri_Paananen]

The links doesn't work because the urls have a red dot on it in the hyperlinks panel in InDesign. Anyone know why that happens?

Missing http:// at the beginning of URL?

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[Hvale-6883tk]

No, there is http:// in the beginning. Everything seem to be the same as the ones with green dot. So its quite strange 😮

[divisj]

How familiar are you with the epub format? Other than the zoom-in/zoom-out, I think it could do what you need, and you can export a fixed layout epub from InDesign.

[Hvale-6883tk]

I've tried the epub format, but the links doesn't seem to work?

[Eugene Tyson]

I use FlippingBook | Original Software and it's very good - but it's flash based.

I did find another one called Digital Publishing Software, Create Online Magazines | ePaperFlip which is html5 - but it hosts on their servers and does, to host on your own servers there's a fee.

You basically use a PDF - as long as the contents are bookmarked it's picked up and linked correctly.