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June 6, 2011
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AIR Distribution

  • June 6, 2011
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Peter,

Something else that I forgot to tell you, I know it is not proper for this forum, it would be better suited for the Air forum actually, however this is something I would need to know about it.

We tried to use Air as we liked very much the way it looked, and how fast it was. However, our main problem was that the generated file was to be for us to be distributed as a help file contained by the setups of our applications. Therefore we do not use it.

My question would be, is it possible to have it available to view online? That is, to put it on an FTP server and have people see it?

We tried to do that with the Flash version of the help, however it proved to be way too slow to load, and therefore we do not use it anymore, instead we use pdf's.

If Air can be made smaller, then we would give it a shot. We wanted actually to replace the chm files, which are not normally viewable over a network, with something else. We thought that the Air would be a suitable candidate, however its size was not in its favour.

Thank you,

Bogdan

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    The_Real_Mike73
    The_Real_Mike73
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2011

    Have you tried the AIR Web Help?

    Peter Grainge
    Community Expert
    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 6, 2011

    our main problem was that the generated file was to be for us to be distributed as a help file contained by the setups of our applications. Therefore we do not use it.

    My first thought was a CHM has to be distributed so what's the difference. I think though you were putting the CHM on a network and a network solution is what you want, correct? If so, yes there is Browser Based AIR help but it does not have commenting, not sure if that is an issue.

    If you are distributing an application though, I'm not seeing the problem with also distributing an AIR file. It can be put in an MSI as can the runtime if you get a free licence to distribute the latter. See my site for more about that.

    If Air can be made smaller, then we would give it a shot. We wanted actually to replace the chm files, which are not normally viewable over a network, with something else. We thought that the Air would be a suitable candidate, however its size was not in its favour.

    From my reply in another thread you were posting to...

    Just looking at some outputs I created, the AIR file seems to be bigger  than a CHM with the same content by around 1.2mb. Maybe you are  referring to the AIR help after it has been installed?

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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