How to create a book?

 Hi Rob,

PageFlip doesn't allow you to convert a PDF in a ZIP File.

If you can configure on your 64bit server, your ISS Application Pool in 32bit mode you can download the 32bit version of the module and use PDF import.

If you can't, use the 64bit version. You will be able to import a book from a ZIP file (with JPG files in) created by yourself.

If you still have problems, send your email adress at support@aricie.fr, we will send you back a video demo.

Thanks for your patience,

Aricie Team

Hi, thanks for the prompt reply.

I understand that the module doesn't convert a PDF into a zip of images. I'm asking how does everyone do that? Obviously everyone using this module will need to do that at some point, so there must be a good way to do it?

Regardless of the above, my server does run the app pool in 32 bit mode so I tried using the 32 bit module again and this time I was able to make it work. Part of the problem is that is says 'Conversion du fichier PDF' and does nothing, so I clicked the link underneath after a bit and it kept reporting 'an error occured' with no clues in the logs as to what it was.  I assumed it was because my server is 64 bit.

In any case... now it works (hooray!) - I have uploaded and created a book from a PDF, so that's great. The trick is to just sit there and wait long enough and eventually it finishes. The other trick is to enable image resizing in the settings before beginning. I also un-ticked all the options on the upload page.. not sure if that mattered.

So, my next question is - The converted PDF doesn't seem to have the zoom button when displayed as book in the module. It is unreadable without being able to zoom in. If I make the player big enough to read without zooming, then it will be way to big. I'm desperately hoping you're not going to say that it doesn't zoom uploaded PDFs now that I'm so close to success?

Thanks for any further advice on this,
Rob

 

Actually... after messing around a bit more, the large files seems to have been picked up and now the zoom button has also appeared. Great stuff!

I have a few suggestions. The premise is that the module is not used by a site administrator, but is used by someone with just module-edit permissions, and so the first two suggestions are important.

1. The module operator should be able to to delete an uploaded zip after it has been extracted as a book, or the module should delete them automatically.
    
2. Create a "Book Management" screen where the module operator can re-open and also delete existing books.
    
3. Most other page flippers let the user click on the page both to zoom in and to zoom out. That would be much more convenient here too.
    
4. And a similar improvement would be to allow the page to be flipped/changed when zoomed in, either by clicking on the page edge, or at least by enabling the arrow buttons or keyboard keys.
    
5. Use an animated loading.gif in place of "Conversion du fichier PDF"
    
6. I'm not at all crazy about the way the page manager icons open dozens of little windows whenever my mouse happens to move over them.. and it's happening all the time so far. I can probably stop it doing that, but maybe it could just require clicking like is the norm for opening stuff on the web. 
   (edit: This isn't happening right now.. maybe it's different browsers behaving differently. I'll test it shortly in IE again)

I'll get back to playing with it some more now. This is looking quite good :)

Regards,
Rob