Pageflip5
The existing self-hosted experience, retained here as the visual benchmark.
- Familiar page-turning presentation
- No current third-party hosting dependency
- Old, unsupported conversion workflow
- Not recommended for new publications
Digital brochure review
Four ways to present the same publication
These examples use the 2025 corporate gifting brochure so that layout, readability, mobile behaviour and navigation can be compared like for like.
Simple PDF viewer
The original PDF is displayed in a lightweight, locally hosted viewer without converting it into page images.
- No conversion or publishing subscription
- Consistent appearance across supported browsers
- The original PDF remains available to download
- No page-turn animation
Open-source page turn
A Chatsworth-controlled page-turning viewer using an MIT-licensed library and locally hosted assets.
- No per-publication licence or external hosting fee
- Branding, controls and URLs remain under our control
- Can be developed into an Umbraco PDF workflow
- Requires initial development and ongoing maintenance
FlipHTML5
A commercial converter that can host the publication or export a package for the Chatsworth website.
- Quickest authoring workflow and vendor support
- Interactive editing and link detection
- Paid plan required for self-hosted HTML export
- This demo is hosted on the free plan and includes FlipHTML5 branding