Page Flip - Megazine3 alternatives?

Have you looked at treesaver? There is a drupal module in the works (http://drupal.org/project/treesaver) but it is an open source javascript framework (http://treesaverjs.com/) that may not be exactly what you want but is a way forward for this sort of thing and is compatible across all devices. If you want to hear more about it there was recently an episode of "The Big Web Show" with a talk with the creators (http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/42).

Hope that helps,

Luke

Hey,

Did something similar recently using PageFlip - [http://pageflip.hu/pageflip3/help.html]

eg. http://ongas.co.nz/brochures/bottled-gas-supply-sept-2008

Didn't get a choice of product as it was already in use by the old WP site and they just wanted the same.
Anyways, it does degrade to show just the PDF if flash isn't available. :)

Just works off a content type which has a custom node template to display the flash content and calls back on itself to get the xml data.
eg. http://ongas.co.nz/brochures/bottled-gas-supply-sept-2008?pagedata=1

I'm sure you could do the same for other PageFlip alternatives and could sent you the node template if you're interested.

HTH

Is looking at 50 PDF pages online really something a user does? I very much doubt it.
Having a PDF for download makes sense.
Allowing it to be previewed on the site can also make sense, particularly if it's larger - then the user can make sure it's what they want before downloading the whole thing.

Beyond that, I don't believe indulging a client like that ("want to present a 50 page PDF online") makes for a good user experience, and thus should be actively discouraged. You're the experts so it's an ideal moment to advise a client on that topic.

An Alternative may be to use a module such as colorbox.
Its a gallery module

and only have the 1st Thumbnail displaying.

You would need to upload each page though.

Hello

I am much interested in your discussion about managing and displaying photos. I have a client who is a major entertainment and recreation venue where we have set up Project Paroo for the following purposes

• Client have an image library that already exceeds 900 items
• Client is planning to ramp up the voluntary photographing of groups and individual guests visiting their venue, as they enjoy the a large range of facilities located at the site
• Client's guests need to be able to download, via the corporate website, the photos of themselves enjoying their day, straight after they get home.

Paroo is part of a much bigger social media marketing project for this Client organisation. It is being scoped out now for Stage 1 to begin within weeks: using MySQL, Drupal 6 or 7, CiviCRM, appropriate 3rd party modules, and inevitably lots of PHP.

It is anticipated that the guest photo sub-module within Paroo, will contribute significantly to building a strong relationship between the venue and their day visitors, their corporate guests who come to major events conferences, dinners, etc, and customers for the major entertainment events that also happen at the same site. So the Client will consider pooling our time and $$$ investment in Paroo with other Australian organizations who have a similar general need, and relevant experience in managing and using a library of photos and graphics images, within a Drupal framework.

Please contact me if you are interested in some form of collaboration on our Project Paroo. We do not want to reinvent the wheel, but we are prepared to sharing resources to achieve the functionality we need in our larger social media marketing project.

Regards

John Young
yindi1951@gmail.com
0407 940 943

Hi Nicci,
After much struggling with Megazine - I eventually took Larolan's suggestion, and used Issuu. It was SO simple. Grab an account at Issuu.com and upload content - setup was very striaghtforward, and the presentation options are pretty flexible.
Then I just embedded the Issuu HTML code into the page content for display on the site.
Has been extremely reliable.
You can see it in action on one of my client sites here: http://blocmusictheatre.com.au/content/bloc-music-theatre-1959-2009-pict...

I would suggest the easiest option is the best option :)

Hello Mudsurfer thanks lot and Larolan's for beautiful advice
me too i lost lot of time with pageflip module :(
but anyway i lets try Issuu site :)

Another great alternative which works similar to isuu's upload-embed schema. :)

http://www.flipsnack.com/

Hi,

Thanks for quick reply. But how it integrate with drupal 7 to fliping page.

Thanks

You will find that file here:
https://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

Alternatively you could download the MegaZine3 demo package: http://www.megazine3.de/tl_files/downloads/mz3v212/mz3_tool3.zip

Unzip it into a new folder and run it. Then you'll find the complete MegaZine3 software in the folder software/MZ3, which also contains the swfobject.js file in software/MZ3/js/

Hi,
An Alternative solution,
maybe you can use Kvisoft page flip software: http://www.kvisoft.com/flipbook-maker-pro/

It can help you convert PDF to page flip magazine without any program skills. Hope this helps!