Project menu + Widget bar
— Editor
We have redesigned the Project menu and the Widget bar.
The menu now allows users to switch between pages without leaving the editor space. It provides access to page addresses, page orders and settings.
With the help of the menu you can move multiple pages at once. Use Shift to select a range or Alt/Option to pick only the pages you need.
It’s now possible to embed pages within one another, creating links like https://readymag.com/readymag/education/usecases.
Simply grab a page with your cursor in the Project menu and drop it onto another page.
The new menu also allows to publish projects directly from Preview mode.
As for the widget bar, you’ll see new icons and a lighter, more translucent look.
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Shots
— Editor — Widgets
The new Shots widget allows you to create a sequence of shots from video. Your video will only play On Scroll or On Hover, giving users manual control over playback.
We support the majority of popular formats. Size is limited to 30Mb. If your clip is too long, the widget will use the first 600 frames, or about twenty seconds of 30fps video.
Use Shots to create user-controlled video experiences and bring your interactive animations to a new level.
The widget is available with our Professional plan.
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Scale Layout in Editor
— Editor — Page
We’ve added a Scale Layout mode to the Editor, allowing users to devise scalable layouts exactly as they would look like both in preview and after publication (what you see is what you get).
The feature activates automatically when you enable Scale Layout from your project settings.
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Product updates
Zoom In/Zoom Out
— Editor — Page
You can now zoom in and out of your workspace using the Cmd + or − (Ctrl + or − for Windows) shortcuts.
Furthermore, any widget can be set with dimensions as small as 1 px width and 1 px height.
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Sizes between Widgets
— Editor — Page
When you move a widget around, we now highlight the distance between it and other snapped widgets. Just switch on both the Sizes and Snap features.
Also, it has become easier to copy any widget several times with a set distance (say, to create an image gallery).
Simply copy a widget with Option/Alt + Drag and set a distance between the widget and its first duplicate. Then copy again, as many times as necessary—the distance between copies will remain constant.
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Picture widget updated
— Editor — Picture
We have significantly updated the Picture widget.
First, all widget corners can now be rounded independently. You can also set different roundings for desktop and mobile.
Second, we have added a new Progressive images toggle to the Project Settings menu. This feature allows you to render images gradually for visitors, transforming them from blurred previews to full images.
Third, you can now crop images even more accurately—the crop scale is now almost twice as sensitive. Use 100% and 50% values instead of the old 1:1 and 1:2 buttons, which have been removed with the update.
Finally, Readymag now converts all images to the WebP format, making projects load faster. This improvement affects all Readymag projects —even those put together before the update. Note that some browsers don’t currently support WebP.
You can learn more about Picture widget in our Help section.
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Animations×4
— Editor — Animations
From now on, you can use up to four different animation types with a single widget. Loops are more flexible too, allowing users to loop only a final part of your choice for any given animation sequence.
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New shortcuts
— Editor
We have added several new shortcuts to help speed up your work process:
—Cmd+click (Ctrl+click for Windows) to select a single widget from a group, or a widget that is located below another one.
—Cmd+X (Ctrl+X for Windows) ‘cuts’ a widget (copies and removes it at the same time). The widget can then be pasted using Cmd+V (Ctrl+V) shortcut.
—Cmd+↑ (Ctrl+↑ for Windows) will make a widget smaller in a vertical dimension, while Cmd+↓ (Ctrl+↓) will make it bigger.
Cmd+→ (Ctrl+→ for Windows) will make a widget bigger in a horizontal dimension, while Cmd+← (Ctrl+←) will make it smaller.
You can also add Shift to each of these shortcuts to get a tenfold increase of a single step.
—Pressing keyboard numbers from 0 to 10 sets a degree of widget transparency (for Shape, Picture and Button widgets).
Learn more about shortcuts here.
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<Video> tag allowed with code embeds in Creator
— Editor — Embed & Code
From now on, Creator plan users can host video content on whatever platform they want (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) and embed it directly into their Readymag projects via the <video> tag. This update provides the following advantages:
—Fully customizable look. Using optional attributes, you can hide video controls, mute, loop, or autoplay. You can also add a cover poster or preload, as well as set the height and width of the video player in pixels.
—Privacy and control. If you don’t want visitors to be able to download your video, this is a better way to protect yourself.
—No ads or suggested content at the end of the video to lure potential customers away.
To integrate a video, copy its embed code and paste into our Embed & Code widget. Here's an example of how the embed code from Dropbox can look like:
<video width='100%' autoplay='true' playsinline='' loop='true'
muted='true\'>
<source src='https://www.dropbox.com/s/60b8oosh5aq0naz/
outstanding white.mp4?raw=1' type='video/mp4'> </video>
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