A GIF or moving image file, can help your content stand out in new eye-catching ways.
With Issuu’s Share as GIF tool, it is easy to create, customize and share your publication as an animated GIF — perfect for social media or email!
Creating GIF
1. Go to Publications from Side Navigation Menu and click the publication you would like to create a GIF
2. Click on the drop down next to Share button, click GIF
3. A GIF wizard will open. From there, you can customize your Publication by selecting pages (spreads) that you want to include in the animation and by changing background color
NOTE: You can choose a maximum of 5 spreads to Preview your GIF.
NOTE: If you want to create a GIF of a publication which is on sale, the pages that are not included in the preview will look blurred. To update preview pages (visible pages of the publication), go to Sell, reselect the preview spreads and click Publish changes.
4. Click on the drop down close to DOWNLOAD as GIF button underDownload source file. You can either download it as GIF or Video.
5. When you select Download as GIF, it will download a GIF file. When you select Download as Video, click on the three dots (...), to download GIF video.
NOTE: The GIF is 900 x 900 pixels. If you need to resize the GIF, you can use a third party site such as ezGIF.
Play and Pause functionality
It is possible to play and pause GIF playback while on the page which is a WCAG 2.1 Level A requirement. When hover over the GIF, the play and pause button will be visible.
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