Once you have created a Flipbook from a PDF, it might look nice, but it's also a bit flat.

Luckily, Enrichments are a powerful tool for the enhancement of your Flipbooks. With them, you can make your publication come alive with links, images, videos, and animations that will help you showcase your content in a new and exciting way.

To start creating Enrichments in your Flipbook, you'll need to open in it the Enrichment Editor. Doing so is easy:

You have several options available to you when creating Enrichments in the Enrichment Editor. You can:

In the Enrichment Editor, you can select the format you'd like from the icons in the top bar:

These four options form the basis of all the engaging Enrichments you can create in your Flipbook. To each of these, you can apply different actions, which we'll talk about more, below.

To draw a link, simply select Draw enrichment, then define the area you'd like to become your Enrichment, by clicking and dragging on your Flipbook.

You'll be able to see the area you have defined, in your Flipbook:

To create an Enrichment with text, select Draw text, then click on the position you wish to have your text, on your Flipbook's page. Don't worry if it's not perfect: you can always move the text box by clicking on it and dragging it into the perfect position. 👍

You also have the option to customize your text link by defining the:

Another way of creating an Enrichment in your Flipbook is with a video. To do so, select Insert video, and you'll be presented with a drop-down menu, from which you can select how you want to include your video.
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Videos can be located in:

If you select to import a video from your Media Library, you'll be presented with the option to select your desired video from it, in a popup box:

Once you've selected your video, it will appear in your Flipbook, in its original size and dimensions. You can then resize it to fit the desired area in your Flipbook, as well as drag the video box to the correct position in your Flipbook.

Inserting a video into your Flipbook from an externally hosted source works similarly, regardless if the video is hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or another external source.

Click on the option you wish, and you will be presented with a popup in which you can enter the source URL of your externally hosted video:

Next, click Insert. Your video will appear in your Flipbook in its original size and dimensions. You can then resize it to fit the desired area in your Flipbook, as well as drag the video box to the correct position in your Flipbook.

Finally, you can also create an Enrichment in your Flipbook by using an image from your Media Library. To do so, select Insert image from Media Library.

At this point, you will be presented with two options:

To insert a single image, select the image from your Media Library, that is presented in a popup, and it will be inserted into your Flipbook in its original size and dimensions. You can then resize it to fit the desired area in your Flipbook, as well as drag it to the correct position in your Flipbook.

Inserting an image slideshow allows you to insert all the images from any single folder in your Media Library.

You can resize the image slideshow box to fit the desired area in your Flipbook, but be aware that images will always be resized to fit within the box, and will always be centered within it.

The result is a slideshow in your Flipbook that automatically rotates through the available images within your selected folder.

Give your Enrichments additional purpose by assigning a link action to them! A link action is essentially a command for the Enrichment to complete a specific action, when interacted with, by a Flipbook visitor. This can be everything from opening an external, or internal link, to opening a form, or media gallery.

To add functionality to the Link you've just drawn:

Want to draw more attention to your links? Add a link style! A link style refers to the way a drawn link appears in the iPaper publication.

When you select a link you've drawn inside the Enrichment Editor, a new button will appear in the top bar:

With this, you can create a link style appropriate for your content, and matches your brand: 

Here, you can select from any existing preset link styles you've already created, or create a new one. Once created, simply choose your link to add it to, and select the new link style. 

You can define the default Color, Border size, and Opacity of your link styles as they appear when loaded in your digital catalog.

However, you can also define the appearance of how these elements appear when hovered over by a cursor. This is called the Hover style.
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To apply a hover style to your links, check the Hover style box:

You will then be presented with the option to set the Color, Border size, and Opacity parameters of the Hover style:

The Highlight effect makes any links with a hover effect briefly 'flash' their hover effect when the page in the Flipbook they are on is loaded.

This allows your Flipbook visitors to identify clickable links in your Flipbook, at a glance.

You can easily apply, or remove, a Highlight style from a link style, by checking the Hightlight style checkbox:

Do you have the need for the same link multiple places? Simply use the Copy/Paste commands from your OS while your Enrichment is selected:

Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V

Command+C/Command+V.

Finding the perfect position for an Enrichment in your Flipbook can take some work. Luckily, you can easily move Enrichments around the spread, by:

Not happy with your enrichment? Simply select it and press Delete.