by Oliver Caldwell | Brochure Maker
A couple months ago I wrote a blog post about how difficult it is to find a free brochure generator that actually works past the point of design flaws and a major headache! I got responses from dozens of people recommending an endless number of online apps they’d found and I tried every single one to no avail.
by Oliver Caldwell | Brochure Maker
I’ve tried so many different ways to make brochures – computer programs, online apps – but nothing really *worked* for me. Either the interface was way too complicated, or it cost way more than I wanted to spend on a software I’d only occasionally use. I had resigned myself to just making sad little PDFs that I could e-mail around. But after some research, I found an easy and free solution for my problems – Yumpu Publishing! For some reason, I’ve always hated making brochures. But I wanted a real solution. Yesterday morning, I was catching up with my friend Shelley, who is an amazing photographer by the way. She had seen my previous blog posts on my seemingly endless search for a brochure maker and she mentioned that one of her clients has been using a free online brochure maker to put together brochures for their local dental clinic. What is a Brochure Maker? It’s a free online app that runs in your browser (I tested it with Chrome and with a new browser, Vivaldi). You visit their website, Yumpu Publishing, and upload one or more PDFs. Like magic, the site outputs a beautiful interactive brochure that’s viewable by anyone with internet access. Once I created a free account, I was off and running. I was able to take the PDFs I had created (one for each page of the brochure), and upload them in a simple, painless process. The magic elves who live in the code then converted my PDFs into an amazing, beautifully formatted brochure! And once the conversion process was done I was able to...
by Oliver Caldwell | Brochure Maker
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that there is no short supply of free software online specifically targeting the brochure development market. What there is a shortage of, is software that actually does the things that people need and expect it to do in order to deliver on their promises!