page flipping effect

Question

There are commercial software that create the look of an analog page flipping effect from a PDF document. Is there a similar animation in TeX? (Not to be confused with flippdf package which gives a mirror image for printing machines.)

Answer 1

I recommend using Impressive: It's a presentation software written in Python and running on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Amongst other transition effects, it supports two page flipping effects, PagePeel and PageTurn. The transitions can be configured in a text file.

Example

If you have a presentation mytalk.pdf, create a text file called mytalk.pdf.info. In order to use e. g. the PageTurn effect between slide 1 and 2 and to use no transitions in the rest of the presentation, the contents of this file would look like this:

DocumentTitle = "My talk"
PageProps = {
  1: {
       'transition': PageTurn
     }
}
AvailableTransitions = [None]

More information on how to configure the appearance of your presentations can be found in the Impressive manual.