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Notes on documents that stay right
Practical guides on flipbooks, PDFs, menus, catalogs and handbooks, and how we think about readers. Subscribe by RSS.
PDF or flipbook? When each one wins
A PDF is not always the wrong answer. Here is an honest look at when to send a PDF, when a flipbook is better, and how to offer both.
How to turn a PDF into a flipbook in about a minute
A step-by-step guide to making a page-turning flipbook from a PDF in your browser, with no software to install and no Word or PowerPoint needed.
A restaurant menu you can update without reprinting
Put a QR code on the table and keep the menu current. How to make a menu flipbook, fix a price in a minute, and keep the printed codes working.
Put a QR code on every page of your printed catalog
Print a unique QR code for each page so a printed catalog links to the live page, with current prices and details. How Print Bridge works.
Why your flipbook should not track your readers
Most flipbook tools watch every reader. We chose not to. Here is what FlipbookIQ counts, what it refuses to, and why that is better for you.
How to keep a record of who read the new policy
Handbooks and policies need more than a link. How read-and-acknowledge records who confirmed which version, and what it can and cannot prove.
How to read a flipbook with no internet
On a plane, on a shop floor, in a basement: how readers save a flipbook for offline use, and how the saved copy differs from the PDF.
Nine things to check before you send any document
Placeholder text, expired dates, prices that disagree, dead links: a practical checklist for any document, and how to run it automatically.