Photo to FlashBook
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About Photo to FlashBook
Do you want to publish your photo collections as digital publications, like magazines, brochures and
catalogues on web sites? Or if you want to impress your friends or family members with a stunning photo
gallery look, FlashBook could be a good choice.
Photo to FlashBook provides page Sliding effect which is getting more and more popular among
professional photographers, designers as well as photography amateurs who present their photo works
online. With using Photo to FlashBook, you can create stunning online photo albums from your photo
collections, and then enjoy the fresh and amazing view of a realistic photo album to share with your friends.
Besides, Photo to FlashBook can help to display relevant pages in animated flash. You can always show the
before or the next photo page with current one in the flash booklet, so that the eBook visitors can compare
and contrast the page content more easily and clearly. A-PDF to FlashBook also enables you to design your
own style digital eBook. You can add proper or your favorite background image and sound, you can also
auto play the flash booklet, read the eBook from right to left.
You can publish you r photo collections as any type of publications, magazines, brochures and catalogues to
web sites, email and even CD-ROM. Your new flash catalogs eBook is royalty-free. You do not need to pay
any more to us no matter what your intended commercial use or personal use.
Note: This product is distributed on a ‘try-before-you-buy’ basis. All features described in this
documentation are enabled. The unregistered version outputs flash files with adding watermarks.
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Detail features include:
Convert a collection of Images to side-by-side flash booklets.
Output in 4 different formats: HTML, EXE, Zip and burn to CD.
HTML allows you to upload to a website to be viewed online.
EXE and Zip allow you to send to your user by email to be viewed on their computer.
Burn to CD allows you to burn to disk so you can send your user physical media for viewing on their computer.
Import Images from computer or digital cameras directly.
Import almost all formats of Images: JPEG/JPG/JPE, BMP/Bitmap, PNG, TIF/TIFF, PSD, PCX, JPEG2k/JP2 and more.
Arrange page layout for images.
Set widget Frame and Text for pages.
Define Paper Size, Output Quality, Margin, Frame Width, Opacity, etc.
Provide multiple templates with previewing effects instantly.
Define your language for flash.
Add encryption to protect created page‐flipping eBooks.
Add and edit bookmark.
Set eBook title and margin manually.
Define flash window and page background color.
Insert background music, always play or define times.
Set background color, image or flash.
Show thumbnails at the very beginning with defining background color.
Enable full screen and zoom in.
Allow view from right to left.
Auto and loop play slides from the very beginning.
Insert background music either for continuous play (loop) or for a set duration.
Export and save settings for future uses.
Photo to FlashBook
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Using Photo to FlashBook
Photo to FlashBook can be started either by launching the application via the desktop short cut , or
directly from Windows Explorer.
Start the program, you will see the below initial window:
You can follow the below instructions to customize your style side-by-side booklets with ease.
I. Edit Pages with Images
1. Add Images from computer or digital camera
Click this icon to choose Images from your computer or camera;
Click this icon to enter into images setting interface.
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2. Drag Images to their destined places
3. Page Settings
(1) Page Layout
You can click icon "Layout" to choose from below types:
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(2) Page Widget
(3) Settings
Click "Settings" icon to define Paper Size, Output Quality, Photo margin, Frame Size, Frame
Opacity, etc.:
At last, click "Publish" icon to enter into template setting interface.
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II. Design Setting
The design setting interface contains below main parts: Choose Template; Tutorial Settings; Thumbnails;
Sound; Bookmark; Flash Language and Flash Security Settings.
1. Choose Template
Click "Float" icon to select templates from below interface:
Click this icon is to save current settings as a TXT file for later uses;
Click this icon is to import stored setting file at once.
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2. Tutorial Panel
(1) Tutorial Title
Customize tutorial title for showing on the top of your presentation.
(2) Hide Page Frame Bar
If don’t want to show the frame bar on the left or the right side of the pages, choose “Yes” in this option.
(3) Top/ Bottom/ Left/ Right Margin:
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(4) Flash Window Color
This color will be applied on all flash windows, such as the "Help" window, booklet window and so on.
(5) Page Background Color
When the page hasn't been loaded completely, it will show with the "Page Background Color" on the page.
(6) Background Config
A. Background Color
Define Outer or Inner background for your flipbook with gradient color or pure color (the same color for
"Gradient Color A" and "Gradient Color B"). Gradient Angle is the angle between the two colors.
B. Background Image
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The template enables you to add two background images: Outer Image and Inner Image. You can make
Inner background image to show special information, such as advertisement or company logo, etc. There
are also 11 kinds of "Image Position" for you to choose: Scale to fit, Fill, Top Left, Top Center, Top Right,
Middle Left, Middle Center, Middle Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Center and Bottom Right.
(7) Right to Left
If you want to show your presentations from right to left (such as Arabic language file), then choose "Yes" in
"Right to Left" option:
(8) Time Settings
Set PageMoveTime and PageRiseOrFall Time in seconds according to your needs. (Recommended second
values are 1 and 0.5).
(9) Auto and Loop Play
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To auto play your slides, you can set "Yes" in "AutoPlay" option; then define the Slide Interval (seconds of
staying on each page); you can also set "LoopPlay->Yes" to play the slides repeatedly (after clicking the Auto
Flip button , the flipbooks will be flipped by staying 3 seconds per page).
3. Thumbnails
You will enable to show page thumbnails in output flash eBook too, and set panel color in "Thumbnails-
>Thumbnails Background Color". You can also show the thumbnails at the very beginning of opening your
flash eBook, just set "Initial Show->Thumbnails".
4. Sound Panel
If you want to add background sound to your flipbook, such as a song or other audio file, just choose
"Sound File" from your computer, then set "Sound Loops", "-1" stands for playing the sound file all the time
while viewing flipbook, other value (N>0) stands for the times of playing the sound file.
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