Welcome to Issuu Platform & Services
This is the place for developers, designers, companies and anyone else who wants to customize Issuu or build on top our technology.
With Platform you can:
- Customize our viewer
- Program the viewer (new)
- Use the search API (new)
Creating Custom Viewer Themes
Anyone can customize the way Issuu looks by changing the look for our standalone viewer, also called the theme or sometimes just skin. It's easy getting started: Check out the guides below. You can insert your own logo, change the colors of buttons and background and much more. If you're a hardcore developer, you can even build your own theme from scratch using Issuu Markup Language (IML).
Who can use this? Anyone who knows how to upload files to a web server and can follow a recipe can customize Issuu's viewer. It's really not that hard and almost anything is possible, so dig in!
Getting Started
Guide: All you need to get started with Issuu Markup Language
Your own Logo
Quick Guide: The quickest way to insert your own logo
Customize the viewer using Adobe Flash
Guide: Learn how to create or edit skins with Flash
Customize the viewer with a bitmap canvas
Guide: How to skin the viewer with any image editing software
Issuu Markup Language reference guide
The full documentation for the IML language
Sample themes
Use these sample themes to create your own from
Programming the Viewer
Use
our new JavaScript API to create a more seamless Issuu experience on
your site. Just embed the viewer into your web pages, and control it
from JavaScript using standard function calls and events.
Issuu Viewer JavaScript API reference
Documentation of the Issuu Viewer JavaScript API
Searching Issuu
Using Issuu Markup Language and the Search API, you can
integrate Issuu with your own online application!
You
can use Issuu's Search API to search Issuu publications, comments, and
users. Anyone can use our API to search and retrieve Issuu content. The
API is a powerful tool for our web partners and other 3rd party
developers. Simple query examples can be found in the
quick-start guide. Developers can check out demo code and find more
technical details in our API reference.
Start searching
Quick-start guide: All you need to get started with Issuu Search
Issuu Search API reference
Documentation of the Issuu Search API
Examples
More examples showing what this thing can do
Read the Platform Blog
Note that all members of the Platform mailing list will automatically receive posts by email.
Recent blog posts
How to Style the Viewer in 3 Easy Steps
Issuu Coolness
- JPG Mag created a custom viewer theme for their landing page
- FreeDarko did some awesome themes and custom Issuu widgets
- The Standerd used a lot of HTML and IML tweaking here
- Magma created a neat simplistic Issuu theme here
We want to showcase your customized Issuu! Please email us.
In the Press
We're Here to Help
We have a team of Issuu people and a superb community standing by to help you. Post your questions here and someone will help you.
