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baba2012
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October 19, 2011
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adobe captivate command line options (publish swf on command line)

Hi,

I am new to Adobe Captivate and I'd like to know if there's a way to publish my .cp project to SWF without going through the IDE.

Is there a command line way of running Captivate so I can quickly convert or publish my .cp project to .SWF files?

Thanks,

Baba

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    baba2012Auteur
    Participant
    October 19, 2011

    What is Aggregator? will it help with automating publishing .CP (adobe captivate) projects?

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    October 19, 2011

    Hello again

    I'm puzzled why Lilybiri suggested aggregator. Hopefully she will clarify.

    Personally, I'm doubtful aggregator would be of any help here. Basically an Aggregator project allows you to point at several SWFs and present them to the end user as if they are a single project or SWF. The end user is none the wiser that they are working with a collection of SWFs. But the SWFs must already be compiled, which is why I'm confused as to the mention of Aggregator.

    Cheers... Rick

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    dmitriym15506971
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    June 20, 2019

    Everything has changed. SWF is set to go bye bye very soon. I would recommend that you stop publishing your courses in SWF and begin a transition plan towards HTML5. Presently Flash player is disabled on virtually every browser. It won't be long when the most popular web browsers will not allow Flash player to even reside in the browser. 


    Hi, thanks for the replies!

    We are indeed publishing to HTML5, but the question about automation stands.

    Our content is spread over 55 Captivate projects, each translated into 6 languages, and each published to two different formats. As the number of projects grows, publishing them via the main Captivate app becomes a bottleneck. If we decided to change our themes and needed to re-publish all our content, we'd have to go through the clicks to change settings and publish 660 (55 x 6 x 2) times.

    Any thoughts on how I might be able to achieve this more efficiently?

    Some concrete example scenarios:

    1) I want to publish the same content as HTML5 with SCORM and as HTML5 with xAPI. This would be much easier if I was able to write a script which invokes "Captivate Publish" against all my projects with the two different sets of configuration.

    2) I'd like to give my content creators the ability to commit their project (.cptx) files and assets to source control and have the publish process run nightly.

    Any help or suggestions are appreciated!

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    October 19, 2011

    Welcome to our community

    I'm unsure there is a way to accomplish that. But I would ask why in the world that would be important? I can't think of any situation where changes would occur outside of the Captivate application where such a thing would be useful. Generally, you compile the SWF as the last step and that's that. It's simply used from there forward.

    Can you describe a workflow where it would make sense to compile without opening Captivate? I'd really like to understand it.

    Cheers... Rick

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    baba2012Auteur
    Participant
    October 19, 2011

    Hi Rick,

    I am interested in a command-line version of Captivate because I have multiple CP projects but I want to add the creation of the SWF files as part of an automated nightly build and have them stored in a staging folder (rather than having version control for both the CP files and the SWF files).

    If there is no command line, is there maybe a way to publish multiple CP projects at once? I just don't want to have to manually open, publish, close, and then reopen one CP project after another as I have about 100 projects...

    Thanks

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    October 19, 2011

    Do you know the Aggregator?

    Lilybiri

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