Creating Custom Styles in PageTiger

When you're creating multiple documents, keeping them consistent can quickly become time-consuming. You want your branding, navigation and reader experience to remain the same, without configuring each document individually. That's where Styles come in — allowing you to define those settings once and reuse them across multiple documents.

What Is a Style?

A Style is a saved set of settings that controls how your documents look and behave for readers. Your account already includes a selection of pre-configured Styles, which you can duplicate and customise to suit your own branding and requirements — a useful shortcut when creating your own.

Creating a New Style

Navigate to Documents > Settings > Styles and click Add. Under Details, give your Style a clear, descriptive name — this makes it much easier to identify later, especially if your organisation uses several different Styles.

Document Size and View

Document Size settings determine how your document fits inside a reader's browser. For most documents, it's recommended to keep Stretch to Fit enabled and use Stretch to Width and Height, helping pages make the best use of available screen space.

Document View determines how readers move through your content:

• Double-page view is ideal for portrait documents designed to feel like a printed publication.
• Single-page view is generally better for landscape, presentation-style documents.
• Mobile Page Animation set to Scrolling can provide a more natural reading experience for mobile audiences.

Interactive content can also be highlighted with a coloured glow, including a separate Mandatory Clickable Colour to draw attention to activities readers must complete — this automatically reverts to the standard colour once the item has been visited, giving readers a clear sense of progress.

Toolbar and Pop-Ups

The Toolbar controls both appearance and functionality. You can customise where it appears, its colours, and the navigation arrows used to move between pages, as well as add your organisation's logo and choose where readers are taken when they select it. If your document contains a lot of information, enabling the Search option makes it easier for readers to find specific content, and you can also allow readers to download a PDF copy if appropriate.

Many interactive features — including More Information boxes, Assessments and Polls — use Pop-Ups. Rather than configuring each one individually, your Style lets you define a consistent appearance for buttons, borders, backgrounds, horizontal rules and any tables within them.

Background, Charts and Page Turn

The Background colour frames your document, so subtle, neutral tones usually work best for readability. Background images can add more visual branding, but should be used carefully so they never compete with your content or make text harder to read.

If your documents contain interactive charts, Chart Settings let you customise their colours, grid lines and fonts.

Page Turn settings control how your document feels to use, including page-turn speed, zoom behaviour and shadows. One particularly useful option is Remember Previous Interactions — when used alongside Reader Login or Single Sign-On, readers can return to exactly where they left off, including completed activities such as mandatory learning modules.

Applying and Reusing Your Style

Once you're happy with your settings, click Save. To apply your Style, open an existing document, select the Styles tab, and choose it from the dropdown list.

Styles are applied at document level, so every Version stored within that document automatically shares the same configuration — meaning you define your settings once and reuse them wherever you need them, rather than repeating the same setup for every document.