Hikari Flipbook

A free flipbook for Joomla and WordPress: it shows a PDF, an EPUB, a Kindle book, a FictionBook, a comic archive, a folder of images or a folder of HTML pages as a book with turning pages. The document is rendered in the visitor's browser, so nothing is uploaded anywhere and no service is called.

• Installing it
• Placing a book on a page
• Every setting
• Hotspots: clickable regions on a page
• Translating it
• When something is wrong

In a hurry

1. Install the package (Joomla) or the plugin (WordPress).
2. Put your PDF somewhere public: images/catalogue.pdf on Joomla, wp-content/uploads/catalogue.pdf on WordPress.
3. Place it:
   • Joomla, in an article: {flipbook path="images/catalogue.pdf"}
   • WordPress, in a post or page: [hikari_flipbook path="wp-content/uploads/catalogue.pdf"]

That is a working book. Everything else is a setting with a sensible default.

What it does

• Real page turns, on a phone as well as a desktop, with an optional page-turn sound.
• Zoom, fullscreen, a link to the current page, and an optional download button.
• Search inside the document, its own table of contents, and thumbnails of every page.
• Hotspots, if you want them: regions drawn on a page that link somewhere.
• The document's text in the page for search engines, and a text layer a reader can select from.
• Reduced motion is honoured; every control is reachable by keyboard and named for a screen reader.

What it does not do

• It does not upload, convert, or send your document anywhere.
• It does not add to the cart. A hotspot bound to a product links to that product's page, because a cart button that ignored options, stock or variants would be worse than a link.
• It does not need a licence key, an account, or a connection to us.