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A whole new way to enjoy Second Style Magazine
By Celebrity Trollop | February 23, 2008
Jaydei Benmergui told me about a brand new PDF publishing service called Issuu which converts PDF documents into embeddable flash documents. What’s so awesome about Issuu? You can now easily embed pages from Second Style in your own posts (maybe you’re an advertiser and would like to show off your ad, or maybe we featured some of your clothing in one of our photoshoots), but what I like the best is that you don’t have to download the entire 10MB magazine to start enjoying it. Right now issue #16 (the current issue) along with issues #15 and #13 are uploaded. Over the next several weeks I’ll be adding all of our backissues to the collection.
Jaime Wheeler of SexySecond Magazine also uploaded issue #2 for your browsing pleasure. You can find it here. There’s tons more fashion content on issuu, too.
Check it out, I love browsing our magazine and everything else and I think you will too.
Topics: Second Style Magazine |
WOW!! What a delight to read the magazine now! And I have to say it looks amazing. Thank you for making such a great product and taking it to the next level!
Posted by: Chance on February 24th, 2008 at 2:33 amRegs
Chance
Wow! Thats really neat!!
Posted by: Garbage Prototype on February 24th, 2008 at 10:31 amInteresting, though if a blogger/designer/advertiser just wants to “quote” a pdf it’s probably easier to use imagemagick’s convert a la convert ‘foo.pdf[pagenumber] foo.jpg Also you’re still “downloading” the content, just not “saving”.
http://www.swftools.org/ also has a downloadable (and open source) tool to convert pdf2swf.
pdf2swf foo.pdf foo.swf
now that’s not browseable but they have a simple pager wrapper that you can download:
http://www.quiss.org/swftools/SimpleViewer.swf
swfcombine -o browseable.swf SimpleViewer.swf viewport=foo.swf
In fact, they may be using those tools behind the scenes with their own pager wrapper.
Posted by: CronoCloud Creeggan on February 24th, 2008 at 10:44 amwow…thanks for letting us now and doing this…I hate reading pdfs and this now really makes reading the mag F U N and fasssssst :)
Posted by: Pompo Bombacci on February 24th, 2008 at 8:14 pmLove the new format. It’s much easier to read, and the zoom feature is much smoother. Nice improvement. Thanks!
Posted by: Jonquille on February 25th, 2008 at 12:32 pmThis is what I have been waiting for!!!
Posted by: Katlene Niven on February 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pmHi, I’ve been trying to use the SimpleViewer.swf, but everytime I run the following code:
Posted by: Kim on May 15th, 2008 at 5:34 pmswfcombine -o browseable.swf SimpleViewer.swf viewport=foo.swf
I get this error:
WARNING Didn’t find anything named viewport in file. No substitution will occur.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!