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Issuu: Turn PDF files into online flip books
While there are plenty of services out there that let you embed a PDF file on a web page, Issuu has to be the prettiest we've seen. When you upload a PDF document, Issuu converts it into web-based document that looks more like a book than a text document. The PDF can then be embedded on pretty much any website, including Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, or Blogger pages.
We submitted the Brooklyn Area Guide from the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, because it just happened to be the first PDF we could find. We don't know what that says about us, but you can see the result above.
The text is a bit hard to read, but you can click on the file to open up a larger player in another window, complete with a full screen mode.
[via Digital Inspiration]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
sdsdfsdfsdf said 5:40PM on 2-05-2008
It would be really great if it did not have this:
"By distributing or disseminating Uploader Submissions through the Issuu Service, you hereby grant to Issuu a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, assignable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, license to host, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and otherwise exploit your Uploader Submissions, in any media forms or formats, and through any media channels, now known or hereafter devised, including without limitation, RSS feeds, embeddable functionality, and syndication arrangements in order to distribute, promote or advertise your Uploader Submissions through the Issuu Service."
My scientific articles will remain MY articles.
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cyder67 said 8:29AM on 2-06-2008
I've actually just uploaded a few articles to Issuu. I also saw the legal stuff and thought twice about the paragraph mentioned above.
The thing that convinced med however was that you cannot download from Issuu (unlike most other of these doc-sites). Furthermore you can always delete your content again. I've seen almost similar legal paragraphs on YouTube and I think it's basically just Issuu covering their back, so that some jerk doesn't want to cash inon their (potential) success. On the other hand, if they were to i.e. resell your academic articles, they probably wouldn't get far, eh?
chris said 12:03PM on 2-25-2008
where does it state that it has the right to exploit the materials you upload? I need to show this to my boss.
1 said 3:05PM on 2-06-2008
shame about that legal shit coz the website is 10/10. EXCELLENT!
perfect reg and ui and great service.
this will be big...
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gfox said 4:41PM on 2-06-2008
I like their print feature which I could use to print to a PDF (say PDF creator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ which I originally saw here). This potentially negates any "cannot download from Issuu" thoughts.
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Edu said 9:13PM on 2-08-2008
pls
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Pinot said 12:04PM on 2-28-2008
Have you tried Smartpaper? Take a look: www.smartpaper.info
More features here!
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kim.rasmussen@umates.com said 9:23AM on 3-01-2008
Have you also looked at www.unifip.com - there you can download the 3D publication at low pricing and run it locally.
Also the viewer is very nice with clear text and a lots of functions and can be customized and a lots of other stuff.
Free for private use and a license for coporates
You don´t even need a pdf but can aslo use Word, PowerPoint and/or Excel
Free for private use and free trial corporate use!
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