My client wants to have his bi-monthly magazine on his web site. We have placed
all the pages of the magazine into .pdf format with a file size of 19MB. There
are 62 pages to the magazine not counting front and back cover. Undoubedly this
is too large. I've been reading about some page turn extensions and wonder if
that would be an answer or solution to optimizing the magazine size. Or would
it be better to turn all pages into single .jpg files and then work with the
page turn software extension.

Any ideas regarding this would be appreciated - be it extension suggestions,
or just plain other suggestions to optimize the size of the magazine for web
purposes.

Mary Ann Walsh

I'd recommend this:
http://page-flip.com/
Been using it for a year and, with a bit of Flash knowledge, it does the
trick. The hard part is preparing the pages - scan, go into Photoshop, re-size
etc.
Like this.http://www.sheffield-central.com/menus.htm

Thanks,
One more question. My client has two sites and wants this page flip
functionality on both sites. Additionally, he wants his past magazine issues to
have page flip on them for his archive.

Can I purchase the 25 Euro version for these wants/needs? Or what version do I
need to purchase?

Mary Ann

Yup, the 25 Euro flip component will do that. Your back issues are also no
problem. As I say, the main task is preparing your pages (black text on white
is not as easy as it appear - you will probably have to mess with the
Brightness/conrast settings in Photoshop). Save as .jpg only, re-size
according to the page layout (remember that you will have an 'open' publication
so allow for page width x 2).
Getting it onto your page in Dreamweaver can be a bit tricky - Flash will
produce around 5 files including an HTML file. you need to prepare your new
page in DW, go to code view, open the HTML file and copy all the code between
<object> and </object> and paste it into the DW page code.
I didn't touch the page-flipper prog. for a few months and forgot most of the
process so I did myself a walk-through in Word which I can send you if you mail
me?tw747@lycos.com