Page Flip Help
This page is for people with technical questions about the PageFlip effect code which I wrote back in 2002. I probably won’t be answering questions very frequently but I encourage everyone to use the Comments area to help each other out.
Download PixelWit’s Free PageFlip: If you don’t have the free version yet, you can click here to download PixelWit’s Free PageFlip Flash file.
Improved PageFlip Now Available: Improved version of the PageFlip implements the most commonly requested features.
Adding Pages: If you want to know how to add more pages or why you get an error saying, “a ‘with’ action failed…”, you can read the tutorial explaining how to add pages.
Resizing Pages: If you want to know how to change the size of the book you can read the tutorial explaining how to resize the pages.
Resizing the Stage and Moving the Book: If you’d like to change the size of the stage and move the book you can read this tutorial explaining how to resize the stage and reposition the PageFlip book.
Transforming the Book: If you want to know how to scale or rotate the book you can read this tutorial explaining how to transform the PageFlip.
Publishing to Newer SWF Versions: If you would like to publish the PageFlip SWF for the version 7.0 Player (or higher) you will need to make a few minor corrections to the file. You can read the tutorial explaining how to publish the PageFlip file to newer versions of the SWF Player.
Changing the Background: If you’re having trouble changing the background color of the PageFlip file, then this brief PageFlip Background Color Tutorial will help you out.
Changing Page Color: If you’d like to change the color of the PageFlip “pages” or “paper”, then this PageFlip Page Color Tutorial will get you headed in the right direction.
Changing the Shadow Gradient: If you’d like to change the shadows that help give the pages a “3D” look, then this PageFlip Shadow Gradient Tutorial should help you tweak the settings.
Multiple PageFlips: If you’d like to place more than one book in a Flash file, then this Multiple PageFlips Tutorial will show you the way.
Start PageFLip Book in Open Position: If you’d like the PageFlip book to start in an open position with 2 pages showing, this tutorial will explain how to Open the PageFlip to Other Pages.
Convert to Read from Right to Left: If you’d like the Page Flipping book to read from right to left, this simple tutorial will explain how to Convert the Page Flip to Read Right to Left.
Why It’s Free: If you want to know why I gave this code away, you can read Something About Sluggy.
Flip History: If you want to know more about various Flash page flip effects you can read the PageFlip page.
Personalized Service: If you need immediate support you can contract my services for a fee. Please Contact Me with specific details regarding your request as well as your budgetary limitations and I’ll be sure to consider your offer.
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OMG! Although I was able to combat the challenge in downloading Adobd CS4 and paying and installing Improved PageFlip, I thought it would be more user friendly. Yes, I am truly an amateur.
Is there anyone out there willing to mentor me through the process, starting with the basics. I’m thinking that each page I wish to use has to be in a jpg opposed to pdf?
I don’t think I need to get fancy just want to download some sample pages and put on my website. I’m willing to pay a few bucks for simple step by step directions. The improved pageflip program is very reasonable. Thank you.
April
Hello,
I’m an amateur but a quick learner and currently developing my website. Page turning is one of the last designs I would like to include.
This is probably a dumb question.. but how do I open the free page flip flash file. When I download it, it cannot identify a program on my computer to install.
I downloaded free trial version of Adobe C4 & adobe flash player 10. No luck. Actually I keep receiving an error message from the Adobe trial version.
But before I decide to purchase the Improved Flip page I would like to try the free version. Please help! Thank you.
a
Hi April, you need a copy of Adobe Flash to open the Free Flash Page Flip. You can download a free 30 day trial version of Flash CS4 from Adobe.
Thank you so much! Yes I did download CS4 but received error messages during installation. Said for me to contact Adobe.. ugh. Thanks again I’m quite excited about using this product. As an amateur I will impress all of my friends and family. SMILE.
April
dear pixelwit,
i just want to ask you how to add jumper button
to the book?
Did anybody ever work out how to load external content into a page without getting the flicker when the page is turned?
I want to dynamically load an image for the cover of the book but I can’t work out how to have it load only once without it reloading each time.
@PixelWit Fantastic piece of work, and you’re amazing for providing so much free support!!
Hi,
I just wanted to share somthing I figured out..
I f you are planning on putting text on your page as well as a background image then rasterize the text on top of the background and save as a jpeg, and use that instead of putting them on the page seperatly. It will cut down the loading time, plus get rid of that annoying lag when u turn the page.
Hi, solved the picture loading in the flip book that i was puzzled on but would still like to know how to use a single flip code with several different picture galleries. A tutorial on that would be great. Again many thanks for making this code public.
JustJim (aka The Electric Penguin)
Hi,
Thank you so much for this script. I am very new to Flash and Action script and haven’t yet figured out how this works. Stupid question really but am i putting my pictures into the print clips in the body of the FLA? Is there a way to load different pictures from different galleries? I have 5 galleries but only want to use the flip book script once. Depending on what gallery the viewer wanted to view, the flip book would load those pictures. On completion return to the galleries to view another and that then load into the flip book. Any help would be most welcome.Again many thanks for this.
Kind Regards
JustJim (aka The Electric Penguin)
Is there a way to have some animation in the pages and not have the movie reload? When rolling over the corners or clicking to go a page you’ll see it reload the page that has animation on it.
Cameron
Dear Pixelwit, (or whomever may be bright enough to assist me)
First of all I would like to thank you for turning out this amazing piece of work.
I only have one slight problem; How would I go about putting different backgrounds in for each page? (So that when you turn the page a new background would appear and not be part of the page itself?)
Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to edit page sizes seperatly? It is important that certain pages are different sizes than others in my book, and I cant seem to figure out how to change one pages size without changing all the others.
If it is possible, how would I go about doing this?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
There has got to be a way to launch a page specific scrollpane from some or all of the pages in a flipbook. My attempts result in a pane half covered by the following page. Is anyone out there gifted enough to help me please?
ok my apology, I asked before I searched, anyway I got the method to flip the book from right to left. here is the link to tutorial:
http://www.pixelwit.com/blog/2009/03/pageflip-right-to-left/
Hi,
Very very best work done, it looks like a real book, but one thing I want to turn the page from right to left, please help.
Oh and a few other questions I had;
how would you set up a book so that when you turned the pages you would see more pages on the left side and less on the right(just like a real book)
Also, I want my book to have a hard cover, is it possible to just have the cover turning like a hard cover and not like the rest of the pages??
and if so how would one go about doing this?
thanks again.
Hi,
Does anyone know if its possible to set up a bookmark so people could be directed to the page they left off reading? Maybe through a cookie??
thanks in advance!