Show HN: Go Fold It – A Tool for Creating Interactive 3D Brochure Demos

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Here are also some of the things my users have created: http://gofoldit.com/gallery

It turns out that print design is quite behind technologically in a few areas, and providing clients with an interactive demo of what a folded brochure was gonna look like is one of them. I was told that the current state-of-the-art in this area was to print out a Black-and-White version of the PDF, to fold it, and then record a video of it being unfolded and emailing it to the client.

Nice job. I wish there were a couple of *.PDF file templates somewhere to use this. The demo is great but the actual files are necessary in my opinion. Great work though.

That is something I'd love to do. Create a gallery of examples where each one also had a blank template with the different panels laid out and labeled, then people would be able to download the template and know that when they upload their modified version, that it'll be folded perfectly.

What I really need is someone that knows the design side of this to help me make that a reality.

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