flipbook(1)						      General Commands Manual						       flipbook(1)

NAME

       flipbook - multi-frame editor and viewer derived from drawtool

SYNOPSIS

       flipbook [-bookgeom] [-slideshow sec] ['X-params'] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       flipbook  is  a	program  derived from idraw/drawtool that supports multi-frame graphic display.  The zeroth frame is always visible as the
       background frame, and in front of it is displayed the current frame (1 thru n).

       The Frame menu controls the frame display mechanism.  The operations are:

       Menu Item       Keyboard        Description
       -------------- --------	-----------
       Move Forward   ^F	      move forward one frame
       Move Backward  ^B	      move backward one frame
       Goto First Frame 	       move to the first frame
       Goto Last Frame		       move to the last frame
       New Forward	F	       create new frame in front of the current
				       frame and make it the current frame
       New Backward	B	       create new frame in back of the current
				       frame and make it the current frame
       Copy Forward	X	       copy current frame in front of itself
       Copy Backward	Y	       copy current frame in back of itself
       Delete		D	       delete current frame (the zeroth frame
				       can never be deleted)

       By default a flipbook document is positioned on the first frame when opened (if one exists).  "Move Backward" can be used to  move  to  the
       background frame when positioned on the first frame.  "Move Forward" then returns to the first frame.

       The  New  command  creates a document with only a background frame.  The "New After" command can then be used to initialize the first frame
       ("New Before" does not work when the current frame is the background frame).

       flipbook save/restores its documents with a document format specific to flipbook (and possibly programs derived from flipbook).	Idraw for-
       mat  drawings  can be imported via the "Import Graphic" command (under the File menu).  The rest of the flexibile import mechanism of draw-
       tool is supported as well.  "Export Graphic" exports currently selected graphics in idraw or drawtool format.  The Print command (under the
       File menu) generates a multi-page Postscript document, one page per frame except for the zeroth frame which is always the background.

OPTIONS

       "-bookgeom"  brings up the flipbook in landscape mode, with a 906 by 700 pixel page size.  Useful for viewing illustrated books prepared in
       this mode.

       "-slideshow sec" continuously plays the contents of a flipbook file with "sec" delay between frames (currently only  available  when  built
       with ACE).

       Also see "-help" for more options, and the comdraw, drawtool, and idraw man pages.

SEE ALSO

	    drawtool, idraw

WEB PAGE

	    http://www.ivtools.org/ivtools/flipbook.html

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