=== 3D FlipBook - PDF Flipbook Viewer, Flipbook Image Gallery ===
Contributors: iberezansky
Donate link: http://3dflipbook.net/download-wp
Tags: flipbook, flip book, pdf viewer, pdf flipbook, pdf to flip book
Requires at least: 4.3
Tested up to: 5.9
Requires PHP: 5.3
Stable tag: 1.12.5
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
3D FlipBook is PDF Viewer, allows to browse images, PDFs or HTMLs as a flipbook. 3D FlipBook attracts user attention and makes more impression on him.
== Description ==
3D FlipBook is PDF Viewer that allows to browse images, PDFs or HTMLs as a flipbook. It can be used for demonstration magazines, books, cards, brochures, booklets and much more in natural way. 3D FlipBook helps to attract user attention and make more impression on him.
Default flipbook template option in General Settings
Default flipbook lightbox option in General Settings
CSS Layers
Languages
PDF search
3D FlipBook thumbnails
Flip sounds
Flipbook deep linking
PDF bookmarks
Printing
3D FlipBook single page mode
3D FlipBook control customization
PDF links
Mobile-Friendly
Smart pan mode
3D FlipBook templates
Realistic view
Flixible page corners
Smart pages loading
HTML, PDF, images as sources
User friendly
High perfomance
Lightbox effect
Interactive
Responsive
Easy to use
Details
Realistic view
3D FlipBook allows to create volume book, with page thickness. It is the most exact computer model of a book or a magazine from real world.
The plugin is able to simulate book opening process.
Modeled flipbook repeat the same actions as its real prototype:
while the cover is opening or closing the internal flipbook pages are deforming as it happens in real life.
The deformation can be customized. You can reduce it or switch off.
Natural behaviour
The plugin is called 3D FlipBook, for sure, it can perform page flipping animation.
But this is very common ability so all typical plugins are able to do it.
3D FlipBook allows to customize the shape of flipping pages but it is still not enough to be unique.
The main feature is using specially designed physics engine that perform all interaction with a user.
This engine is based on physics laws so all user actions with the flipbook seems realistic.
3D FlipBook allows you drag and throw pages together. The engine solve the collisions and show natural scene.
Physics engine has a lot of properties: gravity, mass, flexibility, page flipping velocities and much more.
But it is little necessary to know for using the plugin because all those properties have default presets.
Flexible page corners
The main goal of 3D FlipBook is maximum user friendly. Main key of being friendly is behave in habitual for user way.
How are we used to turn pages in books? - of course it is dragging a page while holding a corner!
3D FlipBook is one known 3D flipbook plugin that has such feature.
Skins support
Supporting skins makes 3D FlipBook customization very easy. It is necessary just to choose appropriate skin and that is all.
Now there are available skins for light and dark themes - the most universal ones.
Smart pan
3D FlipBook has smart algorithm to show the book in maximum comfortable and appropriate for user way.
Flipbook automatically chooses book scale and alignment on the screen, disallows user to drag the book out of view port.
The pan makes only smooth moves that seems very friendly for user. All these abilities help the book to look richer.
HTML, PDF, images as sources
The plugin can use PDF, images and HTMLs as pages. Supporting HTML format as texture is a new technology no one of other plugins support it.
HTML allow easily create interactive books, handle user events, manage plugin behaviour. Using HTML textures is next important step in development web animation.
Supporting PDFs allows to create PDF flipbooks and use the plugin as PDF Viewer.
Smart pages loading
3D FlipBook is not just pretty but it is smart. It has user behaviour prediction system.
Flipbook tracks user actions and try to predict next necessary pages.
In the background it loads predicted pages and renders them. When the user go to next page it is ready to be shown.
3D FlipBook uses priorities for page loading. First of all it loads visible for user pages then predicted ones.
You can customize amount of pages to preload.
User friendly
3D FlipBook is designed to be maximum user friendly. It has familiar to user page flipping control.
Flexible corners help user to understand that he can turn the page by means drag and drop technology.
Physics engine computes page transforms in similar to real world way.
Modeling book is close to natural book - it has the same volume and shape.
It is possible to use hard flat covers to create hard bending and use flexible pages, make whole book flexible or flat.
3D FlipBook has specially designed animation of page loading process.
It is created automatically for different page colors.
3D FlipBook computes animation colors as inversion of page color.
It looks nice for all colors.
3D FlipBook supports fullscreen mode. It is comfortable to watch magazines in this mode, they look like alive.
Sometimes it is useful to change lightning. 3D FlipBook gives to its users such ability.
User can change lightning to do it appropriate for him. It is important option for reading long texts.
High performance
The plugin performance does not depend on number of pages because it does not manage single pages.
3D FlipBook works with blocks of pages, it allows to keep in memory just visible for user pages.
So if the book is closed then there are 2 or 3 blocks.
The first is left cover, the second is right cover and third is internal pages.
If the book is opened there can be two blocks for left and right internal pages.
There can be more blocks just when the flipping animation is performing.
The plugin has no problem with more than 50 simultaneously flipping blocks.
When the turn is finished the turned block merges with neighbour block.
For fast rendering 3D graphics 3D FlipBook uses WebGL. WebGL is a API for creating interactive 3D graphics without using plugins.
PDF Viewer uses lightweight Mozilla PDF.js library. It allows to render PDFs very fast and in high quality.
Interactive
Supporting HTML opens wide abilities for creating interactive books.
It allows to use CSS3 and JavaScript, create navigation, use hover effects and much more.
3D FlipBook as PDF Viewer supports PDF links, highlighters and any HTMl as the second layer markup.
Responsive
3D FlipBook is designed to occupy whole container where you place it. So if the container size changes the plagin recompute its dimensions.
So keep the container responsive and plugin will be responsive too.
Easy to use and customize
3D FlipBook is well documented, has a lot of examples and getting started manual. It is easy to start.
Flipbook supports skins, so it is possible to create own skins or customize style or template files of existing.
== Installation ==
To install the plugin use the regular WordPress plugin installation wizard. For more details see the user manual.
To understand how the plugin works watch next two videos:
[youtube https://youtu.be/erwZIWCU2EE]
How to create 3D FlipBook from images
[youtube https://youtu.be/COueCeQpeB4]
How to create 3D FlipBook from PDF
More videos on the plugin official video channel.
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= How does the plugin works? =
Read the user manual.
== Screenshots ==
1. Closed book in Lightbox mode
2. PDF search, volumetric book with paddings
3. Pages flipping
4. Corners flexibility demonstration
5. Fullscreen mode, table of contents - thumbnails
6. short-white-skin
7. white-skin
8. short-black-skin
9. black-skin
== Changelog ==
1.12.5
Resolved issue with squares instead of buttons in Safari
1.12.4
Initializing plugin from plugins_loaded
1.12.3
Short links were removed
1.12.2
Fixed mouse events issue for CSS layers
1.12.1
Added nonce field to avoid CSRF attack
Removed unused code
1.12.0
Added new asymmetrical flip animation
Fixed graphic artifacts between pages
Arrow keys were binded on book pages turning
Added web page scrolling when user swipe book pages
Added web page scrolling by mouse wheel when book zoom is not available
Updated PDFJS library to 2.5.207
Fixed XSS issue
1.11.5
Logo was removed
THREEJS was updated to 104 rev for Safari 15 compatibility
1.11.3
Using react library from WordPress js includes if it is defined otherwise register react 17.0.2 from the plugin folder (actual for old WordPress)
1.11.2
Using react library from WordPress js includes
1.11.1
Share link and social buttons
1.10.27
Font loading patch for Safari (buttons disappearing fixed)
1.10.26
Supporting Unicode in filenames
1.10.25
Order for importing pages
1.10.24
The same scale for all pages
Toolbar moved below the book
1.10.23
Skins refactoring
Book option: interactive corners
1.10.22
Option in settings: where to initialize the plugin
Function FB3D_CLIENT_LOCALE.render() for manual rendering unrendered plugin instances (after Ajax)
Encoding plugin data
1.10.21
ReactJS library was updated to 17.0.2
1.10.20
Pro version auto updates
Book editor details are wrapped in iframe to avoid conflicts with other plugins
1.10.19
Added query parameter: [3d-flip-book mode="thumbnail-lightbox" query='{"orderby": "date", "order": "ASC"}' cols="3" tax=""][/3d-flip-book],
see all options: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/
For mobile devices plugin height = 0.9*screen height
Single page mode is active by default for mobile devices
1.10.16
Error messages
Hidden controls while loading
Supporting 1, 2 and 3 pages books - no blank pages
1.10.15
Auto updating permalinks after activation
1.10.14
b64 encoding for template data
Up to 5% page width difference in doubled pages PDFs
1.10.13
New pdfjsLib 2.5.207
Fixed a bug in doubled pages PDFs navigation
1.10.12
Preloading font for toolbar buttons
Control settings for disabling Print and Download in narrow view mode
1.10.11
CSS class fb3d-fix-title to fix title in thumbnail mode
1.10.10
Auto launch lightbox using a CSS class or the book name as URL hash: http://example.com/page-with-book/#book1/5, where book1 is CSS class or the book name, 5 - page number
1.10.9
Google Analytics
CSS class fb3d-auto-launch to auto launch lightbox after page loading
CSS class fb3d-activate-fullscreen to launch fullscreen instead of lightbox