Real3D Flipbook Lite – 3D FlipBook, PDF Viewer, PDF Embedder

Description

Real3D Flipbook Lite is the ultimate 3D Flipbook Plugin for WordPress that converts your PDFs and images into interactive, realistic 3D flipbooks. Enhance your website’s user experience with lifelike page-turning effects that work seamlessly on all devices and browsers.

Why Choose Real3D Flipbook Lite?

• Realistic 3D Page Flip Animation

  • Experience the most realistic page-flipping effect with advanced 3D animations that captivate your audience.

• Fully Responsive and Mobile-Friendly

  • Flipbooks adapt perfectly to any screen size—desktops, tablets, or smartphones—ensuring a smooth user experience.

• Easy Integration with Gutenberg and Shortcodes

  • Insert flipbooks effortlessly using Gutenberg blocks or shortcodes. No coding skills required.

• Multiple View Modes

  • Choose from Lightbox, Swipe, Scroll, and Fullscreen modes to display your flipbooks the way you want.

• Customizable Design

  • Personalize your flipbooks with various settings for toolbar, background, colors, and more to match your brand.

• SEO Optimized

  • Built with SEO best practices to help your flipbooks rank higher in search results and attract more organic traffic.

Live Demo & Documentation

• Live Demo
• Try Your PDF
• User Manual

Support

• For questions or support, open a ticket.

Key Features

1. Realistic 3D Flipbooks

• Bring your content to life with the most realistic 3D page-flipping animations available.

2. Open PDF Links as Flipbooks

• Automatically convert PDF links into interactive flipbooks that open in a lightbox. Watch Video

3. Easy Migration from Other Plugins

• Seamlessly convert shortcodes from PDF Embedder, DearFlip, 3D Flipbook, Wonder PDF Embed, and PDF.js Viewer to Real3D Flipbook.

4. Create Flipbooks in 5 Simple Steps

1. Add New Flipbook: Go to Real3D Flipbook > Add New.
2. Select PDF or Images: Upload your content.
3. Publish: Save your flipbook.
4. Copy Shortcode: Grab the generated shortcode.
5. Embed: Paste it into any post or page.

• Watch Tutorial

5. Multiple Display Modes

• Lightbox Flipbook: Open flipbooks in a fullscreen overlay triggered by buttons, links, or images.
• Embedded Flipbook: Place flipbooks directly within your posts or pages.

6. Self-Hosted for Speed and Security

• All files are stored on your server, ensuring fast load times and enhanced security.

7. Customizable Interface

• Tailor your flipbooks with customizable toolbar buttons, backgrounds, colors, and control settings.

8. Responsive and Touch-Friendly

• Optimized for touch interactions on mobile devices, providing a seamless experience for all users.

Advanced Features in PRO Version

Upgrade to Real3D FlipBook PRO to unlock:

• PDF Hyperlinks: Interactive links within your PDFs.
• Text Search and Select: Enable users to search and select text.
• Customizable Toolbar: Add or remove toolbar buttons.
• Unlimited Pages and File Sizes: Handle large PDFs with ease.
• Advanced Customization: More control over flipbook appearance and behavior.

Add-Ons

• PDF Tools Addon: Convert PDFs to images for faster loading and improved security.

Upgrade to PRO for More Features

Unlock advanced features like PDF hyperlinks, text search, custom toolbar configurations, and much more. Enhance your content presentation with Real3D FlipBook PRO.

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

• R Dfb Embed

Installation

Automatic Installation

1. Install Plugin:

   • Navigate to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress dashboard.
   • Search for Real3D Flipbook Lite.
   • Click Install Now and then Activate.

2. Create a Flipbook:

   • Go to Real3D Flipbook > Add New.
   • Upload your PDF or images.
   • Customize settings if desired.
   • Click Publish.

3. Embed Flipbook:

   • Copy the generated shortcode.
   • Paste it into any post or page where you want the flipbook to appear.

Manual Installation

1. Download Plugin:

   • Download the plugin zip file from the WordPress plugin repository.

2. Upload to WordPress:

   • Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
   • Choose the downloaded zip file and click Install Now.

3. Activate Plugin:

   • After installation, click Activate Plugin.

4. Create and Embed Flipbook:

   • Follow steps under Automatic Installation to create and embed your flipbook.

FAQ

How do I create a flipbook?

• Navigate to Real3D Flipbook > Add New, upload your PDF or images, customize settings, and click Publish.

How do I embed a flipbook in a post or page?

• Copy the shortcode from the flipbook list and paste it into your desired post or page.

Is there a limit to the number of pages or PDF file size?

• No, Real3D Flipbook Lite supports large PDFs with hundreds of pages. It uses smart loading to ensure performance isn’t affected.

How can I optimize my PDF flipbook for fast loading?

• Optimize your PDFs by:
  • Reducing image resolutions to 150 dpi.
  • Using JPEG compression.
  • Enabling web optimization settings.

How can I optimize my image flipbook for fast loading?

• Use web-optimized images with a resolution around 2000px in JPG or WebP formats.

Reviews

Good plugin but its not free version

oscarminipro November 6, 2023 2 replies

Is good plugin

Issuu? Forget it! *This* is what you need!

Gwyneth Llewelyn June 28, 2023 1 reply

Everybody knows about Issuu. It’s a way to publish PDFs and distribute them over the Internet with an astonishingly good look & feel. WordPress can directly embed the Issuu flipbook, and it’s a breeze to use. We all know that. We also know that Issuu is a paid service. When you have a 150-page catalogue taking 160 MBytes to load… forget it, you cannot afford to host it on Issuu. You have to do it by yourself. Also, Issuu may not allow all content to be displayed. They have their own reasons for flagging content as inappropriate — in some cases, to view your content, you have to demand that your viewers sign up with Issuu, too (so they can be independently validated, of course). This makes everything much cumbersome. There are many, many PDF viewers out there. In fact, these days, most people don’t even bother with PDF viewers, because most browsers already have the ability to directly view them — no plugin, no JavaScript, nothing else is required. “Ah,” you’d say — since you’re reading this review… “but that’s not the same as the cute animations that Issuu allows. It’s bare-bones PDF viewing — boring! Issuu, on the contrary, brings the user the experience of flipping through a book!” Indeed it does, but what if you have no option but to host the PDFs on your own website? Enter Real3D Flipbook! To be perfectly honest: I have the exact same PDF (aye, it’s 150 pages and 160+ MBytes in size) side by side, on Issue and on Real3D Flipbook. I like Real3D Flipbook more. The flipping animation is nicer and more realistic (and you can even get it to play a flipping sound), using advanced WebGL features such as shading and light rendering. And it’s not an embedded iFrame — rather, this plugin directly accesses the browser’s canvas, so it gets access to more powerful tools (or so I guess). And if you’re scared of serving 160 MBytes (or more!) from your own server, don’t worry — Real3D Flipbook will only render pages on demand, as they get requested by the person viewing the PDF. They will not need to retrieve all pages in advance (of course, that also means that if you flip through a big. heavy PDF very quickly, there will be some pages temporarily rendered as blank pages, until Real3D Flipbook ‘catches up’ with the content being served). Oh, by the way, all the above goodies come as standard on the free version (the one you can get from here). There is a paid version, which you can get from the Envato marketplace. It’s cheap, but it allows much more detailed configuration of all aspects of Real3D Flipbook, have different settings for different PDFs, and so forth. And there is an additional option to store your PDF on their CDN as well, if you’re really concerned about the load on your server. In other words: if you’re actually recommending to a customer a solution for showing PDFs on their website, and your customer is willing to pay for such a service, then, with Real3D Flipbook, you have basically the same service as Issuu, without their restrictions — and without Issuu’s price. And you get a much cooler flipping animation! (Note that even the free version allows more basic rendering — just using CSS, for instance — which will make your pages much lighter. But that’s your choice!) I’m aware that this plugin, while heavily recommended, is not faultless. For instance, it’s clear that it doesn’t get updated all that often. Sometimes, this is not necessarily bad — except for security issues, if the plugin already has all the functionality you need, ‘frozen’ in place, so to speak, why bother to update it, just for the sake of saying ‘hey, a new version is out?’ As an amateur plugin developer myself, that’s the path I take as well. The settings page for the plugin, as well as the online documentation, also suffer from bad spelling mistakes and some confusing organisation overall. It’s clear, from the Envato marketplace, that this plugin stated its life as merely a jQuery-based collection of scripts. Turning it into a plugin (supporting shortcodes and Gutenberg blocks!) required further development, and it’s possible that the ‘adaptation’ of a jQuery-only plugin to work fully integrated into WordPress had its rough edges. Still, one might argue that it could have been done differently, and that both the plugin would benefit from a text revision made by a professional technical writer. It would also be nice if the developer just updated the information about the version of WordPress this works with. I get all those warnings saying that the plugin has never been tested with the most current version of WordPress. The truth is that it works flawlessly (it was well-designed from the start!), it’s just that the developer didn’t bother to update the version on the plugin configuration files. Last but not least, even though this is a standalone plugin, and the same applies to the paid version as well, there are extra goodies that you can install separately, buying them directly from Envato. Some of those goodies are extremely useful, while others might not be relevant. Instead of bundling them all together, you just get the features you wish to pay for. That’s certainly a very appealing business model, and one that allows the developer to continue to add functionality to Real3D Flipbook, but with external modules, additional to the ‘core’. In fact, this is the same concept that made WordPress (and, later, WooCommerce) the most-used CMS in the world: start with a bare-bones (but fully functional!) solution first, and let users pick whatever additional functionality they want — adding these in a modular way (some of which will be paid, but the bulk will be free). Real3D Flipbook adopts the same concept (at a much smaller scale, of course). No wonder it’s so recommended on the popular reviewing sites out there. There might be quite good plugins here and there, many of which free (or at least having an entry-level free version), but none rivals Real3D Flipbook, and most don’t even come close. Not even Issuu.

Good plugin with few small quirks.

jamespond May 14, 2020

It’s a good plugin with few small issues that need polishing, one of them being the updates. Unlike all other plugins I purchased, this one requires manually downloading an archive and copying files into relevant folders on the server. I wish this process would be automatic.

left rogue database code after deletion

wasanajones September 13, 2019

crap

Best Flipbook WordPress plugin review

Transition Slider support July 28, 2019

THE BEST Flipbook plugin out there! It has realistic page flipping and it’s packed with bunch of features. Highly recommended! 5 stars for this powerful Flipbook, it has it all ??

The best PDF flipbook on www.ads-software.com

Codinga July 25, 2019

This plugin is very good, clever and fast! It has all or even more settings from those that may be needed and works great. It’s probably one of the best of www.ads-software.com. Well done to the developer!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0

• initial release

3.39

• New: more options added under General
• New: WebGL options
• Improvement: better performance
• Improvement: faster page loading time
• Improvement: optimized script loading
• Improvement: smaller script sizes
• Fix : various bug fixes

3.39.1

• Fix: updating from 1.0

3.41

• New: view mode “scroll”
• Fix: view mode “3d” performance

3.42

• New: flipbook mode “lightbox” and “fullscreen” added
• Fix: view mode “scroll” not loading first page if viewer is off screen
• Improvement: disable flipbook when it is off screen

3.50

• Fix: bug with OffscreenCanvas undefined on iOS
• Fix: disable page scroll on mobile when lightbox is active
• Fix: disable page flip if another flipbook is in fullscreen or lightbox
• Improvement: faster page loading in mode “webgl”
• Improvement: faster page loading for PDF flipbooks
• Improvement: performance optimizations

3.53

• Improvement: Added toolbar with Zoom in, Zoom out and Fullscreen options

3.53.1

• New: Help section in Edit flipbook page, with Getting Started video
• New: Open lightbox flipbook with a “lightbox CSS class” – any element with this CSS class will open the lightbox flipbook
• New: Set lightbox CSS class via shortcode parameter “class”
• New: Set PDF URL via shortcode parameter “pdf”
• New: Set lightbox thumbnail URL via shortcode parameter “thumb”

3.54

• Improvement: Updated Getting Started video
• Improvement: Changed default flipbook container size to A4 double page

3.55

• Fix: Creating flipbook from images
• Fix: Flipping pages with arrows in mode “3d” and “2d”

3.56

• New: Thumbnails option in toolbar
• New: Print option in toolbar
• Improvement: Page resolution for PDF flipbook

3.56.1

• New: Help admin page

3.56.2

• New: Toolbar button for enabling / disabling flip sound

3.57

• Fix: Prevent page flip after pinch zoom
• Fix: Prevent double click zoom during page flip

3.58

• Fix: Single page mode with odd number of pages
• Fix: Blurry pages in mode 2D
• Fix: Right to left mode when book has 1 page

3.59

• Fix: Left page not visible on iOS, when view mode is 2d or 3d
• Fix: HTML content not working for PDF flipbook

3.60

• New: Table of Contents from page titles
• New: Table of Contents builder
• New: Share on Facebook, X

3.61

• New: Option to override click on PDF links, all links will open PDF in Real3D Flipbook lightbox
• New: Option to render shortcodes [pdf-embedder url=”…pdf”], [dflip source=”…pdf”], [wonderplugin_pdf src=”…pdf”] in Real3D Flipbook

3.61.1

• New: Option to render shortcodes [3d-flip-book pdf=”…pdf”], [3d-flip-book id=”…pdf”], [dflip id=”…pdf”], [pdfjs-viewer url=”…pdf”] in Real3D Flipbook

3.61.2

• Fix: Import flipbooks from JSON

3.62

• New: Download PDF button
• New: Enable / Disable any toolbar button

3.63

• Improvement: Flipbook live preview in admin

3.65

• New: Option to show only first x number of pages
• Fix: Scrollbar on Table of Contents and Thumbnails

3.68

• Improvement: Updated links for addons

3.68.1

• Fix: Conflict with dflip plugin

3.69

• Fix: Override PDF Embedder shortcode and block

3.70

• New: Support for translation with .po .mo files
• New: Added Turkish translation

3.71

• Improvement: Navigation arrows redesign
• Improvement: Thumbnails view redesign

3.72

• Fix: Saving HTML content for flipbook pages
• New: Tooltip for toolbar

3.73

• Fix: Right to left mode in view mode “3d”, “2d”, “simple”

3.73.1

• Fix: Right to left mode in view mode “swipe”

3.74

• New: Resize flipbook container to fit double page flipbook on desktop and single page flipbook on mobile

3.75

• Improvement: Code optimization

3.76

• Improvement: Performance optimization for JPG flipbooks
• Fix: Missing “scroll” option in Mobile > View mode

3.77

• Fix: View mode “swipe” not working

3.79

• New: Tools submenu in toolbar
• Improvement: Share menu redesign
• Improvement: Better flip animation

3.80

• Fix: Flipbook thumbnail overwriting

3.81

• Fix: Flipbook quick edit post deletes flipbook settings

3.82

• New: Container ratio option
• New: Editable Flipbook permalink structure

3.83

• Improvement: Updated to more recent pdf.js
• Fix: Multiple flibpooks on the same page not working
• New: Convert PDF links – Option to convert only PDF links with CSS class
• New: Convert PDF links – Option to convert only PDF links witouts CSS class

4.0

• Improvement: Updated to PDF.js 3.11.174
• Fix: Fullscreen on iOS
• Fix: Double click zoom
• Fix: Flip pages with touch swipe
• Other bug fixes
• Performance improvements

4.1

• Fix: Fullscreen mode flipbook cut off
• Fix: Broken flipbook permalinks

4.1.1

• Improvement: Admin Help page

4.3

• Fix: Lightbox flipbook bug when flipbook is not visible
• Fix: Bulk edit flipbook posts deletes options from flipbook
• Fix: Errors caused by cached scripts
• Fix: Table of Contents from PDF outline
• Fix: PHP 8.3 warning
• Fix: iOS fullscreen shows warning
• Fix: PDF Flipbook rendering bug
• New: Option to enable / disable Current page on mobile
• New: Option to enable / disable Tools menu

4.3.8

• Fix: Bug with creating new flipbooks

4.3.9

• Fix: One page JPG flipbook not working

4.4.1

• Fix: PHP error on flipbook permalink
• Fix: Flipbook not loading in lightbox
• Fix: Single page mode can flip beyond last page

4.4.2

• Fix: JS error on Edit flipbook page

4.5

• Fix: PDF flipbook not loading when RequireJS is used on the page
• Fix: Toggle fullscreen icon does not change on iOS
• Fix: Video does not pause in view mode “scroll” when scrolled page goes outside of view

4.6

• Improvement: Flipbook thumbnail saved as webp
• Improvement: Keep page editor items after replacing PDF
• Improvement: Edit flipbook page performance

4.8

• Fix: Saving flipbooks with large number of pages
• Fix: Menu button Tools not visible in Firefox
• Fix: PDF flipbook with 2 pages
• Improvement: Table of Contents styling
• Fix: Lightbox start page in Right to left mode
• Fix: Last page PDF flipbook