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David5C20
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March 12, 2021
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Exporting/Publishing a project Locally

  • March 12, 2021
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Hi,

I work within a UK Police service - building presentations of evidence for use at trial. We currently build the presentations using InDesign before exporting as a html microsite using the In5 plugin (we used to export to interactive PDFs before Flash became unsupported).

 

Another part of our role is to capture 360 imagery of crime scenes. We are looking at using Captivate's (360 slide template) to build virtual tours of crime scenes with hotspots and embedded media etc.

 

I have two questions:

1) Is it possible to export a captivate project for use in a 'standalone/local/offline' capacity.

2) Is it possible to hyperlink from my In5-created html microsite presentation to the captivate product - again, keeping everything local and offline?

 

Thanks Adobe Community

 

 

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Have rather bad news. The collaboration between InDesign and Captivate (which I used a lot in the past) is completely gone. ID tries now to add interactive features, but to me, they are rather cumbersome compared with the interactivity possible in Captivate (which is also Adobe).

    Standalone was possible before with the EXE output, but death of Flash Player killed that as well. The possibility to create an app (with PhoneGap) is gone as well. Only standalone output now is (passive) video, MP4.

     

    HTML output in Captivate is like a website. It may be possible to run it from localhost but in many instances you'll lose functionality even if it works. It is meant to be deployed from a webserver. It should be possible to have a private server with limited access. That is certainly the case for 360 slides, you need a webserver.  That answers also your last question: if the Captivate output is on a webserver, you can link to its URL. Not offline.

     

    Offline: there are still applications around which allow to play SWF files.  With exception for the 360 slides, which are not supported for SWF output, that could be a temporary workaround. Google for SWF File player.

     

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    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    March 12, 2021

    Have rather bad news. The collaboration between InDesign and Captivate (which I used a lot in the past) is completely gone. ID tries now to add interactive features, but to me, they are rather cumbersome compared with the interactivity possible in Captivate (which is also Adobe).

    Standalone was possible before with the EXE output, but death of Flash Player killed that as well. The possibility to create an app (with PhoneGap) is gone as well. Only standalone output now is (passive) video, MP4.

     

    HTML output in Captivate is like a website. It may be possible to run it from localhost but in many instances you'll lose functionality even if it works. It is meant to be deployed from a webserver. It should be possible to have a private server with limited access. That is certainly the case for 360 slides, you need a webserver.  That answers also your last question: if the Captivate output is on a webserver, you can link to its URL. Not offline.

     

    Offline: there are still applications around which allow to play SWF files.  With exception for the 360 slides, which are not supported for SWF output, that could be a temporary workaround. Google for SWF File player.

     

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    David5C20Author
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    March 12, 2021

    Many thanks LilyBiri,

     

    InDesign (with In5) actually works quite well for us; but that is only because the presentations we are putting together feature minimal interactivity or animated features. Essentially, as long as we can easily hyperlink to pages and play video and audio files - we are happy! I can see though that if more interactivity or animation were required then InDesign would have to make way for something like Xd (if it eventually becomes able to embed video and be exported offline). 

     

    As for Captivate, that's disappointing! We will have to stick (for now) with our current product which is something called Webshare2Go (FARO). Its not terrible but is quite disjointed and doesnt flow - its more functional than stunning! We essentially need something that can enable us to create 360 virtual tours of scenes - embedding images and media where required - but again - all offline.

     

    I appreciate your input on this. Thank you. 

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    March 12, 2021

    You're welcome. You miss a lot if you don't use Captivate however. But it may not be the application you need at this moment.

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