FlexPaper Version 2.1.1 release notes incl Zine (flip book) and annotations

1 April 2013

• HTML5 rendering routine updated (0.7.250)

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• HTML5 rendering routine compressed another 400 kb to 865 kb

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• Improved stability in turning pages quickly for Zine HTML/HTML5 modes

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• Split mode now fully supported in Zine HTML5 mode to reduce bandwidth consumption. Publications are typically split with a tool like pdftk:

  </span>pdftk.exe Paper.pdf burst output Paper_%02d.pdf compress</p>

  </span>The HTML5 rendering mode will use split mode if the following syntax is used when supplying the PDFFile parameter: [*,padding] where padding is the minimum number of digits in the number with zeros’s (0) used to fill. For example a document split into</p>

  </span>Paper_01.pdf, Paper_02.pdf .. Paper_99.pdf, will use the following syntax:
  PDFFile : ‘Paper_[*,2].pdf’,</p>

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• PHP and ASP.NET sample updated to support HTML5 split mode with support for PDFtk as suggested utility for this

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• Performance improvements for Zine (flip book reader) in HTML5 mode

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• Zine in HTML5 mode now uses image thumbnails if they are supplied, to avoid excessive rendering

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• Issue corrected for Safari in Zine (in flip book reader) where the cursor would position itself incorrectly when Zooming in

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• Issue corrected for Zine (in flip book reader) in HTML/HTML5 mode affecting search where the first hit would not always be found
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• Corrected an issue related to text fragments being used from the pdf rather from json file in HTML5 split mode

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• Left and right panels in HTML/HTML5 mode for zine (in flip book reader) now clickable as in flash version

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• Improved performance in rescaling Zine (in flip book reader) in HTML/HTML5 mode using the slider

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• jQuery upgraded to 1.9.1 for FlexPaper Classic and FlexPaper Zine

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• Corrected an issue related to left and right panels in HTML/HTML5 (in flip book reader) mode where they would not show in certain sizes

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• Fixed an issue in Zine/HTML/HTML5 portrait mode where the next button would not work in some scenarios

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• Search abstracts expanding to the left of the flip book viewer now available in the HTML/HTML5 reader

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• Various corrections for FlexPaper annotations BookView mode (InitViewMode : ‘BookView’)

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• Corrections for viewing annotations in full screen where the toolbar wouldn’t show in some cases

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• The HTML mode for the Zine flip book now supports rendering high resolution images when zoomed in with support for sliced pages to optimize download speed and quality

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• Correction for the PHP setup package which causes errors in some file names with spaces in them

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• Zine web server package now includes a java backend example

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• Correction for customizable UI in flash mode where the slider was not reacting when sliding quickly to the low end of the slider

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• Correction for annotations where annotations would disappear when switching back and forth between two page and portrait

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• Reading more improved for iPhone in Zine flip HTML/HTML5 view

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• Fix applied for Zine (flash version) to better manage differently sized pages

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• FlexPaper Publisher now available to Mac users! Make sure the following tools are installed prior to installing FlexPaper Publisher

  </span>if you want to be able to use the full range of formats:</p>

  </span>1) Install MacPorts http://www.macports.org/</p>

  </span>2) From the command line, install the following ports:</p>

  </span>swftools, pdf2json, pdftk, mupdf (you can use the following command to do this: sudo port install swftools pdfjson pdftk mupdf)</li> </ul>