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trillium68
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October 20, 2016
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Swf Compilation Failed Error in Captivate 9

  • October 20, 2016
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I have just recorded 141 slides for a new project, which at this point contains no audio, video, quiz, action script, user variables. The only thing I added were some images (pngs) that I superimposed on some slides. I deleted all those images and still keep receiving the error message below when I try to play the project or view in the browser.   

Swf compilation failed. Note: Please verify if any of the actionscript keywords is used as user variable name.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated, because like most of us developers, I have a project deadline hanging over my head!

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    marya31391609
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2018

    I'm having this issue when trying to publish a course as a video and cannot seem to resolve it with any of the steps. I've tried to implement the .ini file fix, but I get a "not authorized" error and cannot save changes to that file. I've tried running Captivate as administrator, I've tried hiding slides to see what slide/element might be causing the issue, and even with all hidden but a single blank slide at the beginning, it won't publish as video.

    This is a course I need 2 versions of--one to run on AdobeConnect that has super-light interactivity (a couple of pauses), and one that needs to just run as a video on a public website. It publishes fine as an html5 course, but fails to publish every time as a video.

    HELP! Is the only fix the Captivate 6 one? I'm running Captivate 2017 on Windows 7 Pro.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    September 18, 2018

    Are you on 10.0.1.285?

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    marya31391609
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2018

    Yes.

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    Adobe Employee
    Ashish.K
    Adobe Employee
    October 21, 2016

    Hi Linda,

     

    Please try the steps given here: https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/kb/swf-compilation-error.html

     

    Regards

    Ashish

      BDuckWorks
      BDuckWorks
      Inspiring
      October 21, 2016

      Does this imply that work is underway to update the Captivate Help into a new knowledge-base, or is this a new interface to the same help files that have been around before Cp8?

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
      Legend
      October 21, 2016

      KB documents have been around since many years, they are just more difficult to find but a google search can help.

      RodWard
      Community Expert
      RodWardCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 20, 2016

      You can usually find where things are fouling up by hiding groups of slides and attempting to publish again.  Hide one half then the other half of the project.  If one of these allows you to publish, work on hiding sections of the half that DIDN'T publish to narrow it down.

      Eventually you should find the slide or slides where the issue is located.  Once you are down to a slide, start dragging objects on that slide out into the scrap area and republish again.  It may turn out that there is an object that you have named with a keyword, or it could be that text in a given text caption contains some punctuation characters that Captivate is tripping over. 

      The issue might also be in Closed Captioning text (but you say there is no audio so that shouldn't be the case). 

      Also make sure that your filename or publish name contains no punctuation.

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      trillium68Author
      Known Participant
      October 22, 2016

      Rod, I followed your advice and narrowed the problem down to five slides. When I removed the images I had superimposed on these slides, I was able to view the project in the browser with no swf compilation errors. Can you advise what could be the problem with the images? One thing you mentioned was naming objects with keyword...is there a list somewhere of the keywords? I need to superimpose the images on these slides to represent the workflow. Thanks so much for your time and expertise!

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