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Poster:	stbalbach	Date:	December 03, 2008 01:16:21pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

More information about Flip Book here

http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

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Poster:	drvon	Date:	December 03, 2008 02:47:17pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

What I'd like to know, though, is what is the name of the program that creates the flip books. And, how can I convert pdf files into flip books like yours.

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Poster:	rkumar	Date:	December 04, 2008 07:48:09pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

I updated the documentation with a "How the Book Reader Works" section that talks about the images that the new flip book uses. http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

The flipbooks aren't created from the pdfs but from a stack of cropped and deskewed images. This image stack is used to create the flipbook, the pdf, and djvu file.

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Poster:	rkumar	Date:	December 04, 2008 11:53:10pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

Also, to convert existing pdfs into a stack of images for use with the flip book, you can use ImageMagick or GhostScript.

You can use the ImageMagick 'convert' command to do this:

convert input.pdf page%03d.jpg

You can learn more about ImageMagick at http://www.imagemagick.org/

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Poster:	brewster	Date:	December 06, 2008 04:55:50pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

we would like you to upload your PDF's to the archive. We are working to expand our PDF deriver so that any pdf uploaded will be able to be a flip book (and embeddable).

Please upload!

-brewster