In MagManager, you can turn your publication into an interactive digital flipbook directly from the flat plan, by marking the pages as complete.
Once created, it can be embedded on your website or shared directly with clients and prospects, giving them easy online access to your publication.
You can customise the look and feel of your flipbook by adjusting background colours, the position of navigation arrows, link styles, and border colours.
The dimensions can also be set to suit tabloid, square, or landscape formats.
Enhance your publication further by adding interactive links to websites, email addresses, phone numbers, or other pages withing the publication and even embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo for a richer viewing experience.
Existing web and social links set up on the client record will continue to work as normal.
Click here to see an example flipbook
Note: users who create a publication using shared sections, the flipbook for the slave publication will need to be created by uploading a PDF - see How to create a digital flipbook - PDF upload
Digital flipbook settings - Initial set up
Customing the look and feel of the flipbook should be done prior to uploading a PDF (non AutoPubish users) or detecting links and creating manual links (AutoPublish users). As the link colours will be locked in. Click the link below for set up instructions:
Digital flipbook - initial set up instructions
Steps to create a digital flipbook via AutoPublish
Steps 1 - Upload the client's artwork and save it, you will see the 'Edit Links' button. This takes you to the Advert Link Editor from there you can detect links or manually add links to the advert.
Step 2 - Once the flatplan is complete, set all pages as complete, this starts the process of the page being created that forms the digital flipbook.
Both of these are covered in the steps below.
Existing flipbook users - if you already have the web & social media links set up on the details tab of the client record, they will continue to work in the normal way in addition to the new features.
When only the website is entered in the web & social fields of the client details tab, the whole advert within the flipbook will click through directly to the client's website.
When multiple web & social details are entered, clicking on the advert within the flipbook will open the box with the links to each of their web & social media pages.
In addition, when viewing the flipbook, if any links have been auto-detected or manually added to the artwork such as telephone and email links, these will highlight when you hover over the link and display the link title.
How to detect links for new artwork
NOTE: Links can only be detected in PDF files. Artwork files uploaded as JPG or PNG will need to have links manually added to the artwork.
The links detected or manually created on a piece of artwork, will apply to all issues the artwork is assigned to and will appear in the corresponding digital flipbook.
When new artwork is uploaded, the links are automatically detected. You can check the links and add more from the flatplan (or any page you access artwork).
Step 1 - From the flat plan > Click to open the artwork.
Step 2 - Either drag & drop the artwork or click Upload Artwork, locate the file and click Open > Click Save.
IMPORTANT: If the artwork is a full page ensure you have the correct 'Crop Marks & Has Bleed' settings turned on before you Edit Links or mark the page as complete. This will ensure the correct positioning of any links you add within the digital flipbook.
Step 3 - To check the links > Click to open the artwork.
Step 4 - Click Edit Links - any links found will automatically be created.
Step 5 - Manually add links if required or click Back to return to the flat plan.
How to detect links for existing artwork
Step 1 - From the flat plan (or any page you access artwork) Click to open the artwork.
Step 2 - Click Edit Links > Click Detect Links - MagManger will check for links within the PDF and create them for you.
Step 3 - Manually add links if required or click Back to return to the flat plan.
How to manually add links to artwork
Step 1 - From the flatplan (or any page you access artwork) Click to open the artwork.
Step 2 - Click Edit Links.
Step 3 - To add a link, start drawing around the website address, the email address, phone number or any where you want to add a link, if the data can be read the details will appear in the right side panel.
Step 4 - Check the details have been correctly detected or edit as necessary.
Step 5 - The follow can be edited:
The Title description - this is the description that appears when you hover over a link
The Type of Link - identifies the type of link and the Link itself
The Link Border Colour & Link Background Colour will pick up the publications defaults, or can be edited here on an individual basis
Step 6 - Click Save to update.
Step 7 - Click Back to return to the flat plan.
Steps to delete digital links
Step 1 - From the flat plan (or any page you access artwork) Click to open the artwork.
Step 2 - Click Edit Links.
Step 3 - To delete a digital link > Click on the link > The link details will appear in the right side panel > Click the red Delete button and the link is immediately removed.
Steps to mark pages as complete
Once you have detected the links or manually added links to the artwork. The next step would be to complete the flat plan layout. Once the layout is complete all pages should be marked as complete. It's the process of marking the page as complete that creates the page that forms part of the digital flipbook.
You can mark a page as complete in three ways:
Option 1 - Hover over the page number and click to bring up the page layout:
Then, towards the bottom, switch ‘Layout Complete’ on so that the toggle is green.
Option 2 - You can mark pages as complete by clicking the red cross, bottom left of each page on the flat plan. Once marked as complete the red cross will change to a green tick and the gold border will appear around the page.
Option 3 - Finally you can mark pages as complete from the Quick Layout screen, accessed via the flat plan overview > Under Layout Complete > Turn the toggle switch on - blue setting.
All pages should be marked as complete. For a quick overview, anything that has been marked as complete on your flat plan will have an gold border around it as below:
