flipbook(1)

💖 FLIPBOOK ✨ (section 1, General Commands Manual)

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because this is flipbook — and she's a whole multi-frame icon. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

flipbook — a multi-frame editor and viewer that's derived from drawtool. periodt. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So flipbook is a program derived from idraw/drawtool, except she supports multi-frame graphic display, which is the main character energy we're here for. 🌈

The zeroth frame is always visible as the background frame, no cap. And in front of it? That's where the current frame lives — frames 1 thru n, stacked up like a lil flipbook, iykyk. 🫶

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

• Move Forward — keyboard ^F — move forward one frame
• Move Backward — keyboard ^B — move backward one frame
• Goto First Frame — no keyboard shortcut, she's just there — move to the first frame
• Goto Last Frame — also no keyboard shortcut — move to the last frame
• New Forward — keyboard F — create new frame in front of the current frame and make it the current frame
• New Backward — keyboard B — create new frame in back of the current frame and make it the current frame
• Copy Forward — keyboard X — copy current frame in front of itself
• Copy Backward — keyboard Y — copy current frame in back of itself
• Delete — keyboard D — delete current frame (the zeroth frame can never be deleted, bestie, that's the law 🚫)

By default a flipbook document is positioned on the first frame when opened (if one exists). And "Move Backward" can be used to move to the background frame when you're positioned on the first frame. Then "Move Forward" brings you right back to the first frame. Cute little round trip, honestly. 🔁

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 — she said no. 💀)

flipbook saves/restores its documents with a document format specific to flipbook (and possibly programs derived from flipbook). Idraw format drawings can be imported via the "Import Graphic" command (under the File menu). The rest of the flexibile import mechanism of drawtool 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. Super 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). it's giving cinema. 🍿

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

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 — the footer just says flipbook(1), same as the top, and honestly? iconic consistency. slay. 💅🎀