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IcedTea42
Inspiring
June 12, 2017
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Help! How can I show my boss my captivate project (NOW)?

  • June 12, 2017
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If I want to show my boss a PowerPoint presentation, I save it as a PDF and send the PDF.

I don't really have to store the whole Captivate folder on a server somewhere and provide a link to the index.html file on the server, do I?

 

Please tell me there's a way that this can be a simple file I can send my boss.

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IcedTea42Author
Inspiring
June 12, 2017

The answer is - create a .exe file and email it using .zip so it doesn't freak out the security sniffers.

Really, nobody could help a newbie figure that out? Hint: the problem is not "how do I post this project."

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 12, 2017

Sorry, but this is what I wrote in my first answer:

The only one-file options are publishing to exe....

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IcedTea42Author
Inspiring
June 13, 2017

The addition of "but that requires the Flash plug-in for Adobe Reader. Thanks to Apple who banished Flash..." led me to believe .exe was no longer a valid choice.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 12, 2017

It is in reality a website, and a website is never 'one file'.

The only one-file options are publishing to exe, but that means Flash output, or publishing to interactive pdf, but that requires the Flash plug-in for Adobe Reader. Thanks to Apple who banished Flash, all has become very complicated with HTML5 output (which is supported in different ways by different browsers as well).

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IcedTea42Author
Inspiring
June 12, 2017

Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the whole folder onto a shared server, then tested by double-clicking the index.html file. An HTML window opened, no video, and the audio played several times simultaneously, as if three people in an echo-y room were simultaneously dictating to a blank screen.

Is there a better way to share a Captivate project?

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 12, 2017

You have to upload to a webserver (wampp, xampp) which you can install on your own system, then send the URL to the index.html file.

First test extensively, it is not normal to have 3 audio clips playing at the same time, something must go awry in the cptx-file.

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