User Guide. axmag PDF to Flash converter. Version 2.4

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1 User Guide axmag PDF to Flash converter Version 2.4 Released September 2010

2 Introduction Designed for 3D interactive online digital magazine publication. axmag is innovative for page flipping reading online. Key Features Page flipping simulation technology 3D animated page folding effect 3D animated page-flip Page flipping sound effect Vector output technology Small converted file size High-fidelity image Stepless magnification Fast online page loading Other functions Customize company logo text Customize company logo image Multilingual options 1

3 Adjust to different reading habits Background music Background color Remove cutting borders Auto-adjust page size Print pages Add title and author information Batch processing (Pro version only) Combine PDF file into one online magazine (Pro version only) Command line (server license only) Coming soon features Page thumbnails System Requirements Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Vista or latest Windows 7. Also works with terminal server, for instance Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Citrix. CPU: PII 450 or greater, works with X86 computer systems, 32bit and 64bit CPU. RAM: 128MB or higher, upper than 512MB is recommended. HDD: software installation requires around 50 MB free spaces. 2

4 Conversion Steps After the first installation you will find a "PDF to Flash" shortcut created on your Desktop. Please double click it to run the converter. Start conversion: Step 1: Choose PDF to be converted: 3

5 Step 2: Select your PDF type: 4

6 Set cutline: 5

7 Step 3: Choose output type: 6

8 Step 4: Choose output language, logo and background: 7

9 Choose buttons on navigation toolbar: Step 5: Press the "Convert" button and wait for the conversion result. This process may take a few seconds to minutes. 8

10 Step 6: To view the conversion result, press "View it": Step 7: It will then open the converted online magazine. 9

11 Command line Command line is only available in registered version of PDF to flash server license. If you are trying the converter or you are using the standard version, you can still view the command line help but the conversion cannot be accessed. Please try the conversion in GUI and the conversion result will be the same in command line conversion. Commands 10

12 For example, convert season1.pdf into online magazine in command line: 11

13 Publish the conversion result After conversion, you can directly view the publication. There is one folder created using the same name of the converted PDF file. In the folder you'll find following files created: Offline reading To offline read or share the created publication, you need to send the whole created folder including all these files above to others. And when they receive this folder, they can simply open it and double clicking on the HTML file to read the contents. To burn the created publication into CD, please download this package: /download/burn_to_cd.zip To put the conversion result in PPT, please refer to this video: /download/axmag_into_ppt.htm It is suggested that you uploaded axmag publication on your server and link the publication in the PPT file to prevent large attachment in the presentation. Online publication Put all these files on your web server, and host them easily. You can directly add a link to the HTML page, see example here: /demo.html Or you can embed the publication in some web pages, see example here: /product.html Please refer to the source code from the corresponding HTML pages of the examples above. Full Screen Flash Player 9 does not allow keyboard input when displaying content in full-screen mode. Flash Player 10 changes this, allowing for a limited number of keys to be usable in full-screen mode. These include Tab, the Spacebar, and the (up, down, left, right) arrow keys. axmag is using Adobe Flash Player 10 as its default viewer, so you can firstly use Tab key and then use arrow keys to select buttons but other keys are disabled in full-screen mode. Settings you need to know With the index.html you can do the following: 1. Change background color: finf 'bgcolor="#888888" code in the html and change the color. 2. Add background image: please refer to the /download/bkimage.zip to change the background image. With the setting.xml you can do the following: 1. <pagedir>: change the folder where the pages of SWF files and thumbnails of JPG files are stored. 2. <logo>: only available in registered version. Enter '[null]' to remove axmag logo, enter '[logopic]' to use the current logo.jpg in converted publication. 3. <flipsound>: enter '[mute]' to disable page flipping effect. Specify *.mp3 or *.wav to change flipping sound. 4. <bgsound>: change background music. 5. <righttoleft>: value set to 1 to read form right to left if needed. Default is value 0 to flip pages from left to right. 6. <hidesew>: value set to 1 to hide middle shadow on pages. Defaule is value 0 to show the shadow. 12

14 7. <print>: value set to 0 to enable printing. Default is value 1 to disable printing. 8. <thumbnails>: value set to 0 to disable thumbnails. Default is value 0 to create thumbnails during conversion. 9. <ad_title>&<ad_author>: add publication information. To disable this information window in created publications, please refer to item <readmode>: enable or disable mouse scrolling while reading. Value set to 0 (default) to read the book in true 3D simulating mode. Value set to 1 to enable mouse scrolling and reading in pagination mode which means that you can click on the page to magnify texts and use mouse scrolling to read continuously. 11. <controlbar>: If you want to remove the toolbar, set this options value to 0. To default show the toolbar, set value to 1. By alternative, you can set value to 2 to automatically hide toolbar but when mouse hovers on the toolbar, it will appear. Please note, this setting can only be set in the setting.xml but there is not an option in the converter. 12. <sharebutton>: To disable share button, please set this value to 0, other wise, share button will show in created publications with default value <aboutbutton>: The about button will be on the toolbar with a default value 1. To remove the about button, please manually modify this option in setting.xml to 0. 13

15 Links in PDF axmag auto-detects links in PDF files and will convert the links into the publication. Internal links Internal links, such as links in Table of Contents and other links in the PDF to jump from page to page, can be detected and be created into the output publication. The links should have been created and accessible in the PDF before it is converted. External links axmag automatically preserves hyperlinks in conversion, such as 'http' and 'https' links. The hyperlinks are not activated locally but we guarantee that they'll work on a web server. Test hyperlinks locally In the latest version of axmag converter, we are using Adobe Flash Player 10 as the default viewer of the output publication. Due to Adobe Security, all the attempts to access web pages through SWF files locally are blocked. You must explicitly manually add the directory that contains index.html in Global Flash Player Trust directory and you can test the links locally. The Global Flash Player Trust directory in the following location, which requires administrator access: Windows XP, Vista and Win7: system\macromed\flash\flashplayertrust (for example, C:\windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerTrust on a default Windows XP installation) Mac: app support/macromedia/flashplayertrust (for example, /Library/Application Support/Macromedia/FlashPlayerTrust) Please open the directly, open Notepad and right download the directory that contains index.html and save the file as CFG file. For example: You've just converted an PDF into online digital magazine in your Vista, and the converted files are saved in C:\Documents and Settings\aXmag\testPDF\ Open Notepad, write down this folder 'C:\Documents and Settings\aXmag\testPDF\' and save it as testpdf.cfg in 'C:\windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerTrust' Change the file extension to '.cfg' Open the index.html file locally and now the links are accessible now. Please refer to the link below for more information: Use links (internal links and external links) locally As hyperlinks are not activated locally (please note, internal links which can jump from page to page are always active), if you need readers to click on the http hyperlinks locally and go to your webstie, you need to copy the FlashEXEShell.exe in the installtion folder of the converter and paste it together with the converted files. Then the reader can open the FlashEXEShell.exe and view the publication. At this moment, links are all activated using the viewer. As Mac users cannot use the FlashEXEShell.exe, they can open the index.html file to read the contents in the publication. 14