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- clearThoughts
Any ideas on what's the best way to deliver an image heavy book as a digital download?
This would be to give away, so protecting it or encoding it is not an issue.I was thinking either Adobe Air or even a Flash Executable could possibly work.
- adev0
Just make it simple and easy for everyone and do a PDF? Then they can print it, if it's not going to be protected anyways
- akrokdesign0
.PDF
- clearThoughts0
a PDF isn't particularly glamorous - I was thinking of doing a transition between the pages, or something like that.
- digdre0
qbn book?
oh, what a disappointment
- clearThoughts0
A PDF will make it look like a ripped of copy of it, rather than something special.
Want to make something special, and also be able to style the interface - which will be almost non existent anyways.
- clearThoughts0
mmm... good point.
- clearThoughts0
Adobe Air then?
- airey0
make the pdf open fullscreen and you can have transitions. although you seem unclear on whether you're offering a book or a fucking website.
if you want whistles and bells then offer the content up as a website - ie: flipbook or some other online cliché and also off a pdf download for people that might like to view it that way.
- no need to swear, I'm just asking for people's opinions here.clearThoughts
- airey0
air could be interesting. i'd still offer a book though as people might not want to install air. unless your audience are all computer jockey's like us.
- clearThoughts0
I was basically thinking about making it a bit more special.
I know I could just stick it on a Flipbook online or just let the people have a PDF.
But that would make it feel more like a leaked version of the book rather than a copy of it.I was looking at the possibilities to make this feel more special. I also thought somebody out there might have some experience doing something like this.
- print one on some really lush stock and mail it to me???? That'd be pretty special.Amicus
- airey0
"no need to swear, I'm just asking for people's opinions here." - clearThoughts.
i always swear. it covers my basic lack of intelligence and it's genetic as i'm a kiwi living in australia. it's not a personal attack you fucking soft shite. you'll see that that was a personal attack, being directed.
in the words of malcolm tucker "Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off."
- what he fuckin saidversion3
- yeah - it does cover your lack of intelligence pretty well. I also noticed that kind of behavior in other ratards out there.clearThoughts
- this retard at least knows it isn't spelt ratard.Amicus
- BattleAxe0
I don't think many people find anything special about page transitions , just make the source material good and it will be special enough
- ismith0
Make the book special, not the file extension.
- clearThoughts0
Fine- might as well stick it on Google Books then.
Dump all the pages in there with all the other junk.I totally get the point - that's the way to go.
I think that if that a little download that you could play and it goes full screen could be interesting. It would just make you stop and look at the book with more attention.
I don't care if people move it to the trash after that, at least they get the whole impression.When I look at design books in Google Books they all feel like junk.
- Milan0
make it a flash flip page book, then embed it in a powerpoint presentation, then embed that in a pdf
- airey0
surely the design is what will make it special? go look at a magazine rack in any newsagent, most all of the mags are the same size, shape, 4 colour print on bleached white paper. yet for some reason some are $4 and some are $30. it's called content and design. and bullshit and brand awareness (read: bullshite again), but that's another thing. series of things.
the delivery mechanism should be what' on show, it should be the content. if you have to invent some cutting edge delivery for what you've already stated is a 'book' then the question has to be asked, is the content and design any good?
- clearThoughts0
Cool - I guess that's about it.
There aren't basically any other ways to deliver it out there. That was my initial question.Maybe the Apple Tablet will change the game after all.
- airey0
and the term 'retards' isn't really pc. i'd prefer to be called 'intellectually challenged' as i don't actually have any physical disability, just a aggressive need to be woefully ignorant.
- handicapped and retarded are two different thingsversion3
- you can have metal retardation that doesn't inhibit physical development and vice versaversion3
- yes, the point i was making you fucking fucker.airey
- and another thing>airey
- i was agreeing with you :/version3
- i know, i thought we could fight as he seems to have given up. and your more fun.airey