I did a demo of flipping pages like this a while back, but it worked
on flat GIF images, didn’t have the cool-o curved page thing or
anything else like that.
To do something like this, and have it searchable, would be a major
piece of work. There’s no question that they are earning their money
for this piece of software.
You could approximate this in the following way: Open your PDF in
something which can convert it to static images (Photoshop does this,
and can process a multi-page PDF into numbered files.)
Download the example file here:
http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/flip/
…and figure out how to adapt it to your document. That last part
will be a sheer cliff of JavaScript, but it can be done.
Now that will get you the flipping pages. To search those pages and
find the correct one to show would be another thing altogether. I
wrote a JavaScript search engine last year for the Portable Library of
Liberty, and while it’s not that hard to do, the only downside is that
you have to get all of the search data into the browser. The PLL is
distributed on DVD, and the home page with all of the JavaScript in it
is a couple of megabytes. But that gets you a lightning-fast search
engine that does a live update of search results as you type – once
the whole thing loads into your browser.
http://files.libertyfund.org/pll/pages/search.html
Walter
On Jun 22, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Robert Bovasso wrote:
I found this over the weekend in a web mag and thought it was pretty
cool and we might have a use for it.
http://www.emagcreator.com/
Then I looked them up on the web and found it to be prohibitively
expensive!
Is there a way that might be possible for on the of the FW geniuses
to come up with an Action that might do something similar?
I know there was something a while back, but the PDF to web
functionality would be nice.
Bob
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