Flip PDF Pro for Mac – A Dynamic Presentation
Rating: 8 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Flip PDF Pro for Mac all the time. I work at an ad agency, and it's important that we stand out from our competition. Our clients are always wanting a new, innovative way to present material to their superiors, or their own clients. Flip PDF Pro for Mac is a great tool to make even the most drab content more interesting, interactive, and fun. You can use it in a variety of formats – from brochures, to e-books, catalogues, magazines, etc. It's pretty versatile in the sense that you can transform a PDF with any number of pages or any form of content into something attractive.
Pros
- You can customize or add certain things like your title, logo, toolbar icon appearance, background, fonts, etc. It feels a lot like a design program – which is nice, as a designer.
- The program allows you to embed almost any sort of media into your flip book – GIFs are easy to add in and work with, they add a dynamic element to your presentation (which wasn't possible before).
- You can create these things called “hot spots” – basically certain trigger areas in your document that can activate something when clicked – like take you to a e-commerce site, for example.
Cons
- My documents sometimes had a problem with import and output – sometimes it would take a substansial amount of time to export something.
- In their mulit-lingual version, our freelance linguist caught some mistakes, some words were not translated or translated into other languages – which can make us look pretty bad.
- There's a limit on audio you can output for each page in your document – it had to be "one audio for two pages".
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for presentations. It makes even the most drab presentation more interesting, and gives you the ability to add animated elements to your presentation. Everybody uses Microsoft PowerPoint, but for Mac it's a little slow and unresponsive. Flip PDF Pro for Mac kind of solves that issue – you can build your project in InDesign, export it out, then import it into Flip PDF Pro. It sounds like a bit of a process but it's actually very easy. Any designer can pick it up and run with it.