Features and Examples
From MegaZine3
This is a list of features available in MegaZine3 v2.x along with useful links, examples and tutorials.
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Available Features
Core
- ✔ Self hosting
- ✔ Google Analytics
- ✔ Self-hosted statistics: Once statistics are implemented these are all available for use
File formats
- ~ Accepts PDF files: direct file cannot be embedded, must be converted to image or swf via pdf2swf
- ✔ Accepts JPG (Image) files
- ✔ Accepts SWF files and animations
- ✔ GIF animations
- ✔ PDF to SWF conversion
- ✔ Accepts video files: MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, MP3
- ✔ Accepts audio files: MP3
Customizations
- ✔ Plug-in architecture See also: Plugin development | Writing a plugin | Writing a plugin II
- ✔ Customisable interface
- ✔ White Label
- ✔ External API
- ✔ Update after publishing
- ✔ Self maintainable
- ✔ Same day publishing
- ✔ Embedded rich media
- ✔ Vector content (swf)
- ✔ Dynamic XML for page content
- ✔ Full screen photo galleries
- ✔ In-page links
- ✔ In-page link tool tips
- ✔ Customizable in-page link tool tips
- ✔ Different page sizes in single publication
Social / Subscription
- ✔ Link to page / Permalink
Downloading
E-commerce
- N/A
- ✔ Thumbnails of pages when navigating
- ✔ Zoomed in flipping
- ✔ Full screen mode
- ✔ Auto scale
- ✔ Keyboard navigation
- ✔ Extendible keyboard navigation (changing keys, adding shortcuts for all events). Possible but restrictive via JavaScript
- ✔ Auto flip / Slide show
- ✔ Multiple zoom levels
- ✔ Zoom extend (define max and min)
- ✔ Auto-zoom to fill screen size
- ✔ Auto pan with mouse
- ✔ Mouse wheel zooming
- ✔ Double-click zooming
- ✔ View in "book" mode
- ✔ Thumbnail overview of pages (table of contents), clickable
Interactivity
- ✔ Text search
- ✔ Text search highlighting
- ✔ Embedded forms
- ✔ Background music
- ✔ Interaction sounds
- ✔ Mute sounds
- ✔ Simultaneous multi-page flipping
- ✔ Vertical flipping
- ✔ 360 degree flipping
- ✔ Drawing annotation (soon: and saving on page)
- ✔ Bookmark pages: static (defined in megazine.mz3) and dynamic/interactive by user
Accessibility
- ✔ Google Search Engine Optimisation
- ✔ Text-only version
- ✔ Embedded forms
- ✔ GOOGLE Analytics support (Statistics/Event Logging, available through JavaScript API)
- ✔ JS-Fallback solution for non FLASH devices (iPad support): Can use jpg and JavaScript linked to megazine.mz3
- ✔ Print individual pages
- ✔ Off-line reading: either using the projector file (megazine.exe or megazine.app, with FLASH Player included) or AIR
Other Information
- ✔ Page caching
- ✔ "streaming": partial, configurable preload of pages
Features under consideration
- X GUI Software (for generating xml, assets etc)
- X Community repository
- X Community links
- ~ PDF to Image conversion: Can be worked around with free software (not bundled with MegaZine3)
- ~ Accepts DOC files: Can be printed to PDF and converted to swf with free software (not bundled with MegaZine3)
- ~ Accepts PPT (PowerPoint) Can be printed to PDF and converted to swf with free software (not bundled with MegaZine3)
- ~ YouTube Embedding: Can be worked around with pop up
- ~ Facebook Video embedding (swf): Can be worked around with pop up
- ~ Vimeo Video embedding: Can be worked around with pop up
- ~ Google Video embedding: Can be worked around with pop up
- ~ Polygon links/tooltips (ie more than 4 points). Good for e-commerce product tool tips, not available via XML?
- X Comments / publication: Can work around by linking comment page to permalink or internal page link
- X Comments / page: Can work around by linking comment page to permalink or internal page link
- X Comments / article: Can work around by linking comment page to permalink or internal page link
- X Reviews/Ratings: Can be implemented as embedded form or pupup html
- X Share / Send to Friend: Can work around by linking comment page to permalink or internal page link
- X Embed code: Can be worked around but not officially implemented
- X RSS: Can be worked around but not implemented
- X E-mail marketing: Can be worked around
- X Facebook Integration (plug-in not yet available)
- ~ Download publication: Can be worked around with internal page link to load pdf
- X Print by page range
- X Print entire publication
- X Selectable text (for copy/paste)
- X Save/Download individual pages
- X Copy to clipboard
- X Shopping Cart: Can be worked around with popup
- X Wish List: Can be worked around with popup
- ~ Back issues archive: Can be worked around
- ~ Internal links between pages
- X Button to zoom to fit width
- X Button to zoom to fit height
- X Button to revert to 1:1 size
- X View in "scroll" mode
- X Page notes
- X Page snapshots
- X Page tear
- ~ Protected / Subscription-based viewing: Can be worked around but not implemented
- X Speech Synthesis
