Appearance settings for your Flipsnack flipbook, one by one

Overview

Appearance is the second panel on the Customize page, and it decides how the flipbook looks and how its pages turn. Thirteen settings sit there: the page transition, the mobile transition, auto transition, flip sound, the Skin and Layout style dropdowns, and the switches for shadows, reading direction, animation, link highlights, text selection and tooltip language.

Requirements

Plan: Starter or above: check your plan or compare plans
A flipbook in your workspace: upload one

How the pages turn

Page transition is three buttons: Flip, Slide and Scroll. Flip is the default and curls the page like paper. Slide moves the page sideways, which suits presentations. Scroll runs the pages as one vertical column, which suits long reports on a phone.
Mobile page transition is a separate dropdown, so a flipbook can flip on a laptop and scroll on a phone. The phone icon in the top bar previews the result. It has no effect inside an embed.
Auto transition turns the pages on its own after a set number of seconds, and starts again from page one at the end. It is off, which leaves the pace to the reader.
Flip sound plays a paper sound on each turn. It is off, works on desktop only, and does nothing when the transition is Slide.

Skin and layout

Skin is the look of the player's own controls, Classic or Modern. Modern is the default: a control bar that stays at the bottom, with your logo in the top left. Side by side: Flipbook player skins.
Layout style is how many pages show at once. Smart is the default and decides per screen: one page on a phone, two on a monitor. Single page always shows one, and Double page always shows a two page spread.

The visual details

Page shadows draws a shadow along the spine and the page edges, which is what makes the flipbook read as paper. On by default, and it does nothing when the transition is Slide.
Animate interactions gives links and interactive elements a soft highlight animation, so a reader notices there is something to click. On by default.
Add links highlight paints a visible box over every link in the flipbook. On by default, and worth keeping on for a PDF whose links a reader would otherwise have to hunt for.
Detect unmarked links was greyed out on the flipbook we measured, so we cannot say what switches it on. Tell us through live chat if you need it and it is unavailable to you.

Reading direction and text

Right to left orientation reverses the page order and the navigation for Arabic, Hebrew and Persian. Off by default.
Text selection lets a reader select and copy the words on a page, and share a link that reopens the flipbook on that exact highlighted text. Off by default. It works on flipbooks built from scratch and on vector PDF uploads; on older PDF conversions only pop-ups are selectable.
Tooltip language sets the language of the player's own labels, not of your pages. English is the default, and 26 other languages are in the dropdown.

Getting the change to your readers

Readers are served the published copy, so a change on this panel is not yet a change they see. Click Share in the top right, then Update in the Publish your flipbook modal. On a flipbook you have never published, that button reads Publish.

Save options for future flipbooks, the card below the panel, is a separate thing: switch it on and these Appearance settings become the starting point for the flipbooks you make next.

Additional tips / FAQs

Where did the menu controls go? Into their own panel. Controls holds fullscreen, the arrows, download and the rest.
Flip sound does nothing. Check the transition. Slide has no page to flip, and the sound never plays on a phone.
Can I set a different transition for mobile? Yes, that is what Mobile page transition is for.
Double page is greyed out. The flipbook's page layout is set in the Design Studio, and Customize cannot override it.

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