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February 22, 2005
Interactive Flash Brochure - www.etihadholidays.com
www.etihadholidays.com - Click on Brochures
The flash brochure is an MphasiS Product.
The flash brochure's concept, architecture, design & development is done by me.
The following tools were made in the flash.

Description:
The flash brochure is XML based and each page are made manually in Flash. The soft copy of the brochure are recieved from the print agency. Any of the Adobe Acrobat(PDF), Quark Xpress or EPS format are useful enough to generate the brochure. The shell of the flash brochure is customisable through XML.
Details:
1. Page Navigation

Back/Next buttons as well as roll over on page edges
2. Zoom/Text Selection Mode

Clicking on the zoom button would open up a tool bar which would have the Zoom In, Zoom Out, Pan and Text Select Functionality.
3. Quick Navigation

Clicking on Quick Navigation would open up a panel with page thumbnails of important pages. e.g. The front cover page, The table of contents page etc.
4. Save Brochure

Clicking on Save button would save all the pages of the brochure in the browser cache. Details of instructions are desplayed while saving the brochure. The progress bar displays the pages saved in the cache.
Once the pages are saved, it auto adds the pages into the browser favorites section.
5. Print Page

Clicking on Print on a two page layout view would ask you to select the page to print. Only one page can be printed at a time. On a single page view the print button would directly print the page.
6. Double Page/Single Page Layout
You can toggle between single page or double page layout.
7. Page Navigation through input
You can jump to any particular page using the page input field and clicking on the "GO" button.
8. Table of Contents

The table of contents is populated using XML. This is used to navigate to respective categories. The table of contents also acts as an header for the page. If you navigate to any page using other navigation tools, its respective category title will be auto displayed on the table of contents page.
Brochure Production Time (100 Pages*):
Required:
Softcopy of the brochure either in PDF, Quark Xpress or EPS format.
Table of Contents list (or the table of contents from the brochure will be used)
Development:
Generating the pages and customising the shell for the brochure
Estimated time to upload the brochure live (100 Pages*):
5 weeks*
Posted by Varun Shetty at February 22, 2005 07:50 PM
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