FlowPaper 3.1.1 Release Notes

18 September 2017

This release mainly contains smaller corrections and improvements. We’re getting this release out a little earlier than usual due to iOS 11 being released in the next 48h as we found some optimisations we wanted to include prior to this release. We have seen some issues in iOS 11 related to how background images are being loaded and unloaded in the Safari browser and we have made optimisations accordingly. This was mainly affecting the Zine viewer.

How to update

You don’t need to republish existing publications to update if you’re mainly interested in the adjustments for iOS 11. You can simply replace the existing “FlowPaperViewer.js” file in the js/ directory of any publication or installation you have created with the new version. You can grab the minified version of FlowPaperViewer.js here.

Changes

Cosmetically improved the 3D page turn effect (Zine)
The vertical reflow template will now scroll on devices with larger display width than 500px (Elements)
Its now possible to deep link into reflowable vertical publications using the #section hash (Elements)
Improved text quality when changing pages in Zine while rendering in 3D mode (Zine)
Improved loading speed for WebGL in Zine mode (Zine)
Improved height calculation for the bookmarks/outline panel in Zine (Zine)
Improved the reflow template so that fixed layout pages are not shown until rescaled (Elements)
Improved preview quality for sharing publications on Facebook / Twitter via opengraph (Desktop Publisher)
Improved drawing accuracy for the drawing & selection tool (edit mode) (Desktop Publisher)
Additional storage can now be purchased from the account/cloud publications page (Web)
Improved support for iOS11 (Zine)
Added support for Parallax pages (useful for pages with large backgrounds) to the vertical scrolling Reflow mode (Desktop Publisher)
Improved the Elements viewer further to avoid flickering in some cases when changing page and images were being loaded from cache (Desktop Publisher)
Fixed an issue where the last page got duplicated incorrectly when using Elements after changing some of the settings (Desktop Publisher)
Fixed an issue where some standard fonts were not having their bold/italic set properly when using the flatten/compress option in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
Fixed an issue where navigating using the hamburger menu with SEO optimizations turned on caused the viewer to freeze in Chrome (Elements)
Fixed an issue where fixed layout areas were not being centered properly in iOS (Reflow)
Fixed an issue where some standard fonts were not being used properly when using flatten/compress (Zine)
Fixed an issue where holding down left/right arrows and not releasing to navigate would cause graphical glitches (Zine)
Fixed an issue where some images were not being exported properly in the new reflow template
Fixed an issue where vertical/reflowable publications were not using Google Analytics tracking properly (Desktop Publisher)