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Responsive, crisp clear and fast flip book

Create beautiful and interactive flipbooks, magazines or books. Magalone automatically converts your existing PDF document into an interactive and state of the art flipbook. No dependencies on other libraries like jQuery or Bootstrap, Magalone works 100% independent. Support for smartphones, tablets, touchscreens and low bandwidth situations.

JPG and PDF FLIPBOOK in one component

With Magalone you can take any PDF document and convert it into an interactive flipbook within seconds. Magalone automatically pre-loads and displays images of your pages for fast reader experience and switches to PDF rendering when your document has finished loading in background.

Responsive

Magalone is responsive and features full support for smartphones, tablets and other touchscreen devices – no programming needed! It even is conscientious of mobile data volume and only loads data that is needed instead of wasting your visitors’ precious (and expensive) bandwidth. It just works!

Automatic device detection

Magalone enables your visitors to read any of your PDF documents on your website, on any device, anywhere in the world. Using latest HTML5 technology makes reading fun like it has never been before!

Highly customizable

Magalone is fully customizable with pre defined attributes and CSS themes. You can customize the Look & Feel and the behavior and animations of Magalone to fit seamlessly into your website. We even included a few themes to get you started!

Slideshow support

Magalone creates beautiful books, magazines, slideshows or brochures out of your PDF documents that will amaze your readers!

Easy Integration

You just need to add a few files of code to your website and you are ready to go. Practically no skills required. Your PDF document will be converted automatically in a completly hands-off process.

Mobile Device Support

Support for all devices Magalone supports smartphones, tablets and other touch devices. You can use familiar gestures like swiping and pinching and Magalone is even smart enough to display your content to the best fit according to your screen size and orientation.

Automatic bandwidth detection

Readers on limited bandwidth don’t have to worry, Magalone loads only resources, which are absolutely necessary. There is no unnecessary preloading.

Interactive Multimedia Overlays

You can add overlays to your document’s pages to add interactive content for your users like:

• links
• videos
• music
• websites
• galleries
• custom HTML

Full Feature list

• page turn animations
• easy to use and customize
• no programming skills required
• lightbox mode, responsive mode, fullscreen mode
• single / double page mode ( for mobile & desktop )
• can render PDF files using the PDFs library
• supports multimedia overlays (links, videos, music, HTML, galleries) using newest HTML5 technology
• touch controls (including pinch to zoom)
• lazy loading
• doesn’t need flash
• automatic thumbnails
• 4 thumbnail locations (top, left, right, bottom)
• optimized for mobile
• customizable flip animation speed and transition type
• works in all major browsers
• page overview
• zooming
• customizable controls
• HTML5 fullscreen support, even as a module in your website
• retina display support
• two included themes, fully customizable through CSS
• over 20 page turn sounds
• slideshow mode
• zoom in and out buttons
• keyboard navigation (configurable)
• color inversion for better readability
• 29 easy to use options
• well documented

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