Flip PDF Pro for Mac – A Dynamic Presentation
Rating: 8 out of 10
November 30, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
We use Flip PDF Pro for Mac all the time. I work at an ad agency, and it's important that we stand out from our competition. Our clients are always wanting a new, innovative way to present material to their superiors, or their own clients. Flip PDF Pro for Mac is a great tool to make even the most drab content more interesting, interactive, and fun. You can use it in a variety of formats – from brochures, to e-books, catalogues, magazines, etc. It's pretty versatile in the sense that you can transform a PDF with any number of pages or any form of content into something attractive.
- You can customize or add certain things like your title, logo, toolbar icon appearance, background, fonts, etc. It feels a lot like a design program – which is nice, as a designer.
- The program allows you to embed almost any sort of media into your flip book – GIFs are easy to add in and work with, they add a dynamic element to your presentation (which wasn't possible before).
- You can create these things called “hot spots” – basically certain trigger areas in your document that can activate something when clicked – like take you to a e-commerce site, for example.
Cons
- My documents sometimes had a problem with import and output – sometimes it would take a substansial amount of time to export something.
- In their mulit-lingual version, our freelance linguist caught some mistakes, some words were not translated or translated into other languages – which can make us look pretty bad.
- There's a limit on audio you can output for each page in your document – it had to be "one audio for two pages".
- It makes our presentations more interesting and dynamic.
- It allows us to go around using Microsoft PowerPoint (which is a little slow and unresponsive on Mac).
- Using its animation and hotlink elements, we're able to broaden our services with this program. It really helps out a lot.
There are several PDF conversion programs out there, but really Flip PDF Pro for Mac is probably the best one that I've encountered. The amount of versatility in the program really sells it to me. It works just like a design program, but as a customizable PDF, and it's easy-to-use interface really helps speed things up with our workflow and process. There's a lot of competitors out there, but none of them really stack up.