The Best Way to Create an HTML Flipbook
There’s a flurry of online flipbook making tools. Nearly all use an uploaded PDF to generate HTML output. Sometimes the tools let you download those new files, but most often they have to be hosted on the service’s website.?
Let's talk about why you're better off creating a flipbook directly from InDesign using a tool called in5.?
PDF is a great end point, but a limited starting point
PDF is inherently an output format, optimized for distribution, so in many ways it is flattened and contains less information than your InDesign file. Thus, online flipbook creators are starting with limited information when creating your HTML5 flipbook.
PDF doesn't support InDesign's native animation, Object States, embedded HTML, audio, or video.?
Many flipbook builders have extra tools that let you add interactivity on top of the flattened PDF content. This limits your interactivity to the static items that exist in the PDF layout, and things that you can place on top of that layout using the PDF flipbook builder software.
Native InDesign interactivity, animation, and responsiveness
By contrast, in5 can export a flipbook directly from InDesign, letting you take advantage of
Not only that, but in5 exports the files to your local machine, so you have full control over your content (rather than it being locked up on a 3rd-party site). You can take the output and host it on your own server or distribute it however you like.
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In addition to InDesign’s native tools, in5 adds additional interactive options, such as
In5 adds all of these extra features, while still creating all of the flipbook features you’d expect: an animated, draggable page peel effect; a 3-D transition as pages flip; and page shadows.
Updates to your content—in5 takes out the middlemen
In5 is an add-on that lives directly inside of InDesign, which makes updating your content simpler too. Instead of editing your InDesign file, re-exporting to PDF, re-uploading to the PDF builder site, and re-adding your tacked-on interactivity...in5 lets you simply make the changes in InDesign and re-export. And since you own your output files, you can always crack open the HTML and edit it directly (but only if you like that sort of thing).
More than just a flipbook tool
In addition to creating flipbooks with in5, you can also use it to create
In5 puts these options in your hands, without having to code, so you won’t have to rely on a developer to keep your designs intact.
To find out more, check out How to Make An HTML5 Flipbook with Interactivity from InDesign.