Police World Edition 2 2013

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What ’ s this Flipping Book all about? The Communications Team has just set up a new way to view Police World on-line. In a direct response to member feedback the Team looked at possible ways of improving the on-line experience for readers. T he Team have now published the first digital magazine through the Flipping Book interface. This technology fig 1

Control Panel Guide The search window The arrow below points to the full screen icon. Click it to expand the page view. To turn the page click on the small arrowheads, highlighted by the arrow and circle below. You can also click on the very bottom corner of the page to navigate to the next page. Simply continue clicking to advance through the magazine. The same can be achieved by simply clicking the next page icon located at the bottom right of the page. At any time the reader can zoom in to a selected article by double clicking on the required article. Once activated the reader determines the text size prefered. A repeated double click exits this feature. See the example of the enlarged page below left. The zoom slider control is also highlighted with the red circle and arrow below. Please email: lee.hemmings@ipa-uk.org if you have any difficulties in using this platform or require further instruction. The control panel bar. The page turning icons The full screen button

allows the reader to view a digitally animated version of the magazine that looks and feel like the real thing; from flipping through the pages with optional page turn sounds and even realistic spine shading all adding to a highly engaging reader experience. Once converted the digital magazine is suitable for viewing on your desktop pc, laptop, mobile, tablet and e-Reader devices. The reader can view embedded videos, listen to related audio clips and also has the ability to click through to further information when internet links and email addresses are seen. Readers can use the search facility to explore the magazine finding relevant key words or phrases, they can zoom into any page – for details of this see the notes in Control Panel Guide (right). Read on for a step by step guide on using this new platform. Step 1: Firstly visit: www.ipa-uk.org/Police- World to view the back catalogue of Police World. Click on the image of the latest Edition and a page will open that looks like the one shown in fig 1. Step 2: Click the full-screen button, which is located centrally in the control panel and directly underneath the image of the magazine, the page opens up into a larger view that is both easier to read and to navigate. If you hover the mouse over the control panel icons - the purpose of each icon will be displayed with a pop up description. With the full-screen icon clicked the page will now look like this one shown in fig 2. Step 3: You are now free to browse through the magazine. Don’t worry you don’t have to read it all in one go as there is a handy bookmark facility housed in the Control Panel. Here readers will also find a handy print button. There are other icons or buttons within the control panel to further assist the reader. See the Control Panel Guide for details.

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