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Has anyone ever done an online magazine similar to this alneurope.texterity.com/alneurope/20080102/
I was just wondering what software would be easiest and best to do this, preferably for the client to do themselves from a pdf if possible.
Cheers,
Suzy

Well this is the online one I could find texterity.com/services/magazines/ other than doing it as a PDF.

I while back I did a bunch of work for RealView developing a Flash alternative to the DjVu player due to the fact that they didn't want to support the DjVu plugin.

I wrote a custom magazine solution in Flash using Flip Book, my own index/thumbnail implementation and Flash to PDF for pdf output. SWFTools offer a PDF to flash converter though I didn't need it as we were pulling from the DjVu source.

RealWorld ended up writing a custom JavaScript solution but have since gone back to Flash. They may be able to offer a solution but it would likely be an expensive one.

I don't know of any specific oen source magazine viewers and would imagine that, if one existed, would take a similar amount of effort to building a custom solution.