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The Controls panel: what your flipbook readers can do

Eleven switches for navigation, sharing, downloading, printing and audio

Overview

Controls is the third panel on the Customize page, and every switch on it decides something a reader may or may not do: move between pages, search the text, share the flipbook, download it, print it, take notes, or hear background audio. Eleven switches on a plain flipbook. A catalog with products in it shows more.

The Controls panel with Navigation controls, Allow fullscreen, Navigation arrows, Navigation bar, Pages overview and Share options switched on, and Search inside your flipbook, Reader notes, Download PDF, Print flipbook and Background audio switched off

Requirements

Navigation

Navigation controls is the parent switch. Turn it off and the six below it go with it, leaving readers a flipbook they can only page through by clicking the page itself.

  • Allow fullscreen lets a reader fill the screen with the flipbook. On by default.
  • Navigation arrows are the large arrows at the left and right edges of the page. On by default, and the control most readers use first.
  • Navigation bar is the strip along the bottom with the page counter, the zoom and the progress line. On by default. Turn it off and the page count goes with it.
  • Pages overview shows every page as a thumbnail so a reader can jump straight to one. On by default.
  • Search inside your flipbook finds a word across the pages and lists the pages it is on. Off by default.
  • Share options gives readers the share button for a link, an email or a social post. On by default.

What a reader can take away

  • Download PDF lets a reader save the file. Off by default. Switching it on adds two more switches: one that keeps the interactive elements in the downloaded file, one that lets the reader pick a page range. You can always download your own flipbook, whatever this is set to.
  • Print flipbook puts a print button in the player. Off by default. What comes out is as good as the images you uploaded, up to 300 DPI.
  • Reader notes lets a reader write private notes on a page. The notes stay in that reader's own browser: nobody else sees them, and your flipbook is unchanged. Off by default, and available from the Business plan.
  • Background audio plays a track while the flipbook is open. Off by default. Switching it on asks for the file and adds Loop and Autoplay. Browsers hold the sound until the reader interacts with the page.

Switches that appear only for some flipbooks

This panel is not a fixed list. Shopping list appears when the flipbook has shop content, so a catalog with product tags shows it and a magazine does not. If an article describes a switch you cannot find, check what the flipbook contains before you go looking for the setting.

Getting the change to your readers

Readers are served the published copy, so turning a control off here does not take it away from them yet. 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 sits below the panel. Switch it on and these control settings become the starting point for the flipbooks you make next. It does nothing to the flipbook you are on.

The Save options for future flipbooks card highlighted below the Controls panel, its switch off

Additional tips / FAQs

  • The whole bottom bar vanished. Navigation controls is off. Everything under it is off with it.
  • Readers can still download it. Check the published copy, not the preview: the change reaches them on Share, then Update.
  • Can I stop people copying the text? Text selection is on the Appearance panel, and it is off by default.
  • Where is the lead form? In Add-ons, not here. It opens its own screen.

Next steps

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