Turn your PDFs into interactive flipbooks with Calaméo

In PRODUCT
31 October 2024
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In the digital age, it’s crucial to stand out from the crowd and capture your audience’s attention. Transforming your static PDFs into interactive flipbooks is a great way to do just that. Calaméo, our digital publishing platform, offers you a simple and effective solution for creating dynamic and engaging flipbooks. In our case study, we explore how Calaméo can enrich the user experience, optimize your digital publications and provide you with detailed analytics to maximize the impact of your content by transforming your PDFs into flipbooks.

Enrich the user experience

With Calaméo, your PDF documents are transformed into interactive publications that captivate your readers. Flipbooks offer a fluid, intuitive reading experience, mimicking the sensation of turning the pages of a real book. What’s more, Calaméo lets you add interactive elements such as videos, hyperlinks, animations and sounds. These features considerably enrich content and increase reader engagement. Thanks to this interactivity, your publications become not only more attractive, but also more informative and entertaining.

READ MORE: Boost your Calaméo publications with exclusive integrations

Take advantage of digital publishing

Digital publishing offers many advantages over traditional publishing. It’s greener, more economical and offers instant worldwide distribution. Calaméo makes it easy to convert your documents into attractive digital formats, enabling you to reach a wider audience without the constraints of physical printing. What’s more, you can update your content in real time, ensuring that your readers always have the most up-to-date information. Digital publishing with Calaméo allows you to modernize your communications and strengthen your online presence in an efficient and professional way.

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Track the performance of your content

Calaméo not only transforms your PDFs into interactive flipbooks, it also lets you track the performance of your publications. Thanks to integrated analysis tools, you can obtain precise data on the number of views, time spent on each page, user interactions and much more. These insights are essential for understanding what’s working and what can be improved. With access to these detailed statistics, you can adjust your content strategies to better meet your audience’s expectations and maximize the effectiveness of your communication campaigns.

READ MORE: Analytics made easy: Track your publications on Calaméo

Conclusion

Calaméo is a powerful solution for transforming your PDFs into interactive flipbooks, offering an enriched user experience, the benefits of digital publishing and detailed analytics tools. By leveraging these features, you can not only attract and engage your audience, but also optimize your content for maximum results. Don’t let your PDFs remain static and boring; take the leap to dynamic digital publishing with Calaméo.

Discover our case study: Convert a PDF into a Flipbook

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For many businesses, showcasing digital publications on their own website is a great business solution. Clients can enjoy the convenient presentation and interactive features of catalogs, magazines and more all while browsing the brand’s site.

To help you take advantage of this powerful tool, we’ve created a complete guide to embedding your publications!

In part three of this series, we will explain how to track the statistics of your embedded publications and tips for mobile responsiveness.

Measuring Performance

Once your publications are available on your site, looking exactly as intended, they’re ready for visitors to read, click and explore. It’s also time to start measuring the performance of your embedded publications.

Understanding the sources of your audience is easy with Calaméo’s advanced statistics. All users have access to Source data in the Statistics tab of their accounts, which shows the percentage of your publications’ views that take place on Calaméo, in embeds and from a Library Widget.

Our PREMIUM and PLATINUM plans allow you to break down Source data across a range of other stats. For example, you may wish to see what percentage of readers are clicking links in your embedded publications or whether embedded publications are read for longer.

Mobile Responsiveness

Your Calaméo account statistics will also help you to understand how readers prefer to view your embedded publications: on their desktops, smartphones or tablets. If you notice a high percentage of viewers using mobile devices, you should consider ensuring that your embed is fully responsive.

While our viewer is always responsive on mobile, it’s important that your site is set up for a responsive embed using the Calaméo embed code. Each website is different and has its own specific needs, but here are the basics:

  • Define the width attribute in the iFrame tag of your publication’s embed code as 100%
  • Check that the container for your Calaméo embed code is correctly configured for responsive display

It may also be a good idea to test the display of your publication’s links, videos and other interactive elements on mobile so that they are comfortably sized for readers to enjoy on smaller screens.

That brings us to the end of our Complete Guide to Embeds series! You should now have all the information you need to make the most out of your embedded publications.

Missed the previous entries? No problem: catch up with parts One and Two to learn embed basics and how to customize your embeds. Or download our Complete Guide to Embeds for the fully illustrated tutorial.

Have you embedded a Calaméo publication on your blog or website? We’d love to see your best work! Tag us @calameo on Facebook and Twitter or on Instagram @calameo_publishing.

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Explore the new viewer theme on Calaméo

In PRODUCT
18 January 2021

There’s a big change happening on Calaméo in 2021. That’s right—our new and improved “2021” viewer theme has launched. Find out everything you need to know about the “2021” theme!

What is the “2021” theme?

The “2021” theme is a new viewer interface for your publications on Calaméo. It should look familiar: we’ve based “2021” on the classic “Default” option. But the new theme offers you lots of improvements. First and foremost, our tech team has rebuilt the viewer for maximum comfort, usability and efficiency. You’ll notice that browsing is smoother, close reading is easier and—of course—that your publications look great.

What’s new?

Here are just a few of the updates you’ll enjoy in the “2021” theme:

  • More space for your documents in the viewer
  • Publisher’s choice of Book, Slide or Scroll mode
  • Improved navigation tools
  • Helpful Index mode to access thumbnails at a glance
  • Larger, streamlined buttons and icons
  • Intuitive zoom controls
  • New “Made with Calaméo” viewer watermark
  • Cohesive mobile experience

We think you’ll find “2021” simple to use, with the great features you’re used to like in-text search, custom logos and direct downloads. Check out an example below to see the new theme in action!

Can I still use the classic Calaméo themes?

If you are a PREMIUM or PLATINUM user, you can continue to use the classic Calaméo themes with your publications. To select a theme, go to the Design tab of your publication’s properties. Next, choose the theme you wish to use from the drop-down menu. Finally, click the green “PUBLISH” button to save your selection.

BASIC users do not have access to the classic Calaméo themes. However, BASIC users are free to define Book, Slide or Scroll mode for their publications in the “2021” theme. 

What about changing the background?

Changing the viewer background is a feature exclusive to our PREMIUM and PLATINUM plans. As a result, BASIC users may not modify the background color or image in the “2021” theme.

💡 TIP: Learn how to change the viewer background.

Will my customization elements be affected?

PREMIUM and PLATINUM users should see no disruption to their existing publications and customization elements. You can make use of your custom logos, backgrounds and viewer themes as usual! For those planning to choose “2021” for upcoming publications, it’s important to be aware that your logo will be automatically resized in this theme. Therefore, we recommend using a horizontal version of your logo, in .PNG format with a transparent background.

💡 TIP: Learn more about adding your own logo to the viewer.

Please note that BASIC users will no longer be able to display custom backgrounds for their publications.

What else do I need to know?

We’re delighted to be bringing the “2021” theme to all of our users and we hope that you find it modern, practical and fun. While you’re getting to know the new theme, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns! You can write to us at contact@calameo.com or visit our Help Center to submit a request. Plus, stay tuned for details about more changes coming to viewer themes right here on Calaméo.

Happy publishing!