Interactive guide - In the palm of your hand

[Marcus447]

Good afternoon,

I created an interactive menu for guests to access information easily, quickly, and offline (great for those traveling by plane). By clicking on the selected image, the menu directs you to the page related to the subject you are looking for; there are also numerous links redirecting to Google Maps (this part requires internet).

Feel free to share any suggestions, ideas, or feedback.

MenuAba menu

[Elisa]

Hi @Marcus447 😊, 

Thank you for sharing this here, it’s really beautiful.

Are you also planning to print this and leave it for your guests in your listing?

I’m tagging a few hosts in case they would like to give you more advice on this: @Dave-and-Deb0, @Oksana127, @Till-and-Jutta0, @Shelley159 and @Marie8425.

Thank you in advance, everyone!

[Marcus447]

@Elisa 

This is an interactive .pdf file with buttons that allow you to navigate between menus.

I will send to you the web site for you understand the ideia.

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[Elisa]

Hi @Marcus447 😊, 

thank you so much for letting me know!

Looking forward to that.

[Marie8425]

@Marcus447 

It looks very cool.  Curious, if offline how does it work?  Do you email to the Guest a file?  Is it a big file?  I am not understanding, because clicking on a picture and there is a lot of pictures brings another page my technology side is just wondering about the receivers computer capabilities and storage limits?

[Marie8425]

@Marcus447 

I was just thinking maybe an online presence that allows downloads of the certain pages a Guest wants.  Then the receiver could decide rather than a big file and maybe they only care about rental cars no interest in maybe public transportation?

[Marcus447]

@Marie8425 

Yes, this project is fully customizable for each location, host, and individual character designers.

[Marcus447]

@Marie8425 

It's a .pdf file, yes it works offline for reading on the plane, the file is small, about 20MB.

I'll send you the website so you can understand better.

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[Marie8425]

@Marcus447 

You might want to review.  This is the answer from Chatgpt I asked because that would be intrusine to my files sise wise..  

is a pdf file 20 mb a big file or small file

ChatGPT said:

A 20 MB PDF is considered large for most purposes.

Here’s a simple way to understand it:

✅ Small PDFs

• Under 1 MB — very small

• 1–5 MB — normal size

• 5–10 MB — moderately large

✅ Large PDFs

• 10–20 MB — large

• 20 MB and above — very large, depending on the context

Why 20 MB Is Usually “Large”

• Many email systems reject attachments over 10–15 MB.

• Government, legal, and medical upload portals often limit files to 5–10 MB.

• Some ADA mailing or document-processing services also prefer under 10 MB.

Why It Might Be That Big

A PDF becomes 20 MB when it includes:

• High-resolution images

• Scanned pages

• Embedded fonts

• Multiple graphics

If you want, I can compress, reformat, or rebuild a PDF to get it down to around 1–5 MB without losing readability. Just upload it or tell me the name of the file.

[Marcus447]

@Marie8425 

This version is in 3 languages ​​with an interactive menu. If I only put it in one language, it will be 3 times smaller, but I send it via WhatsApp. If you find it too large, you can make it available on Dropbox or Google Drive.

The real size in the full version is 19.948.060 bytes (20 MB disk)

[Marcus447]

@Marie8425  

The chatgpt considers it large if sent by email, which is not my case, but if I set one language and reduce it to 10 pages, it would be about 5 MB.

This the same size that:

A 10-20 second video in Full HD (1080p), compressed in MP4.

A 5-7 second video in 4K, well compressed.

Smartphones today have at least 128 GB of storage.

20 MB is 6,400 times smaller than 128 GB.

Best regards

[Marie8425]

@Marcus447 

I understand my technology's capability.  What I am saying I use my phone storage and my laptop computer storage for business and pictures of pets and family.  That big a file would slow my system and because business file I have to scan all files cybersecurity that is big.  For me I would not accept that big a file for my week vacation.  

[Marcus447]

@Marie8425  20MB isn't 20GB hehehe is not big file 

[Marie8425]

@Marcus447 

Thank you that is why I suggested like me you use an AI tool to review size.  I am using my hardware for my own needs in my case, one of my businesses deals with a lot of graphics.  So for you personally 20MB may be a small file, for me personally just an average day my other business will transmit about 300 graphics to my computer.  So file management and size is critical to me.  Your intrusion of a large file could cause someone else like me, to have issues.  What if the Guest is an artist or interior designer?  Both types I would think have large graphic libraries on their phone and laptop.

[Karen114]

@Marcus447  This looks awesome.  I use a digital guest guide that barely get's used.  I only know this because I get peppered with questions  about all the info that is in the guide. 

I am wondering if the guests would be more likely to use as there are images/symbols vs the written word. 🤔