It Begins With A PDF File and Ends Who Knows Where

It Begins With A PDF File and Ends Who Knows Where

A quick look at the world of electronic publishing tells you something is up – something that's very gnd revolutionary. It works like this: most people know about .PDF files and their origin and the fact that they exist, but what exactly does one do with a PDF file, if one has one? Let's look at one specific example: E Magazine Maker's Page-Flipper software.

From the sound of it, it would seem to be a nice package that let's you do a few, limited, things with PDF files, but once you visit their site: Emagazine Creation software, one would think that their software is little more than a magazine maker package that let's you do flipbook creation for magazine-style pages, however, this is where the train goes off the rails for many people because it does much more than that.

Imagine having a PDF file, created on a Mac, and then using the same file to create as many as 50 or more unique Flash-bearing page layouts from just that one PDF file. Inevitably, this changes the economics of online and print magazine and catalogue marketing as it cuts costs dramatically. And, it gives you the ability to fine-tune your message.

If you do not like the message you are delivering it also allows you to almost instantly change the message you are delivering, fine-tuning it even further. As you would suspect, this would be for your online editions, while print editions would take longer to changes.

Three-step method

Perhaps the most interesting piece of this part of the puzzle is exactly how this is accomplished. It takes three steps:

-You generate the listing that is to be run through the software
-You generate the test text or page changes and insert them
-You insert the changes

It might seem like a $99 one-time investment in this software is a bit steep, but it begins to become surprising here as the software allows you to take the PDF file and then let's you create Flash files from the same file. This means that you not onlyhave the ability to generate a standard-looking magazine or catalogue page, but with the click of your mouse you can generate or change and re-generate specialized Flash files that give your online pages zing.

Zip to your display

It should come as no surprise then, that this software will work on a variety of platforms whether it is an Android-driven application for a smartphone to a full-blown, eye-popping video effect for a PC or a Mac.

It's interesting to note that because this is made by the same firm that created Photoshop, PDF and Flash files that you can create files that incorporate elements of each into a final online or print file. A quick count recently revealed that the PDF file can be the basis of up to 25 different products, as well as PDF to Flash files or albums; Office to Flash files or albums or DiVu to Flash albums.

Note, too, the investment in this flipbook creator software page gives you lifetime support.