Flipping book

I have not played with this in a while, but when ID CS4 came out i played with this a bit. I never could figure out how to make it so the book would be ''closed'' by default rather than open to the first spread to start.

Is there a way to do this?

Flipping book

Are you referring to the SWF export? If so, some things just need to be faked.

For instance, if you're putting something like that in a web page with a green background, you need to create a new first page and color it to match.

It's not a very elegant feature at all but it's a 1.0 thing and holds a great deal of promise.

Bob

Flipping book

Let me expand a bit on Bob's response. If you want it to look like an actual book, you have to?have a front cover and back cover, and you document must be in spreads (or faked into spreads from single pages). Then you also need to add another page before the front cover, and an extra page after the last page/back cover. As Bob suggests, make this be the same color as your web page. You might need to turn off ''allow pages to shuffle'' and ''allow spreads to shuffle'' on the pages pallet to add a page on the front cover spread itself, if you doc is setup as facing pages.

The SWF should open up to the first page i.e. the front cover then.

yeah i knew what he meant. That works great unless your trying to keep the book centered the whole time. Its not a big deal, i have softwear to create a book from PDF, but i would prefer to do it in ID if i could

If you mean something like this:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/133381/eDocContainer/index.html

I can give you small container that does the job... you can download it from

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/133381/eDocContainer.zip

Just unzip the package, you will have a folder called eDocContainer. Inside that folder, there is four files

-magazine.swf %26lt;------- replace this with SWF file from indesign, use exactly same name
-index.html %26lt;------ after that, open this to browser

-AC_RunActiveContent.js %26lt;----- don楹搕 remove, replace or rename
-container.swf %26lt;----- don楹搕 remove, replace or rename

I made little stroke around spreads in InDesign, 0,5pt, aligned inside.

I exported SWF to 700px heigth, no html-file...