Captivate 5 compatible between MAC and PC?

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August 10, 2010
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I have tried searching this forum with no luck.

I have two questions:

1. If I purchase Captivate 5 for MAC, can I create output files that will be compatible and usable on Windows computers? (XP or 7) Meaning, I (the trainer) have to create the training files, I have a MAC; but all the trainees that will be using the training files have Windows computers.

2. If there are files that were created on Captivate 4 for Windows, will I be able to open and use them in Captivate 5 for MAC?

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kristenbyuAuthor

Participant

Thanks for the responses.

Update:

In MAC OSX 10.6.4, I've been testing a trial version of Captivate 5. In Captivate 5, the .cp files from Captivate 4 (created on windows), open and work fine so far. However, I have tried re-saving them as .cptx in Cap 5, then doing different output formats to test on windows computers. This is where I still have a bit of a problem. Outputting to SWF seems to work okay when opened on Windows if I don't zip the files. The HTML file seems to pull up okay in a browser. But outputting to .exe brings up the error (when opened on either a windows xp or 7 computer, or on my windows in vmware fusion on my mac)... "Application failed to start because the side-by-side configuration is incorrect..". I can't figure this out. Outputting to SWF should work okay for me, but I would still like to be able to output to .exe and have it work when opened on a windows computer. I have no idea what would be causing this error. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Allen_Partridge-1MiBZx

Participating Frequently

How are you transferring the file?

Are you unzipping the zip file first?

Allen

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kristenbyuAuthor

Participant

I tried both ways, zipping the .exe, and not zipping. I then saved the files to a USB flash drive on the mac. Then took the USB drive to the Windows computer and tried opening the files.....then got that error message.

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rsharma_champ_81

Inspiring

Hi,

About your second question "If there are files that were created on Captivate 4 for Windows, will I be able to open and use them in Captivate 5 for MAC?"

Yes that also works fine.

Regards

Rahul

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Sikandar_Pradhan

Participating Frequently

Hi,

Even the .cptx files are compatible between MAC and PC. But since you have asked about the output files which is "SWF", it works across both Operating Systems.

Thanks,

Sikandar

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi there

If you are talking about the Captivate Source files (.CPTX files) I'm not sure. This may require an answer from either Adobe or a geeky shapeshifter that walks with a foot in both the Mac and PC worlds.

But if you are referring to the output files, I'm thinking that's the beauty of Flash files. That it really doesn't matter what factory the machine came from. They should play and work.

Cheers... Rick