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ArthurTLee
ArthurTLee
Inspiring
May 26, 2016
Question

Captivate 7 files publishing three times their size

  • May 26, 2016
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We have some pretty large captivate files that we publish. Typically our courses cptx files range from 100 - 200 MB and they publish right in that range. This has never been a problem until recently. I published one course a couple of days ago and it was right about 200 MB. But then today I tried publishing it again and it now publishes at 650 MB! The cptx file is 230 MB. I don't have any unused items in the library. And I get that saving as swf vs both swf and html5 can make it smaller, but we need both.

All that aside, is there any particular reason you are aware of regarding why our 230 mb file zips up during publishing and is three times its original size?

Thanks in advance,

Arthur Lee

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    May 26, 2016

    Do you publish to both HTML and SWF?

    ArthurTLee
    ArthurTLeeAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 26, 2016

    Yes. I know that increases the size significantly, but as a business I am not sure how to get around it. We have customers with employees who take the courses on ipads.

    ArthurTLee
    ArthurTLeeAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 26, 2016

    I guess I don't know enough about these two: I know SWF is flash-based, so I assumed I needed to publish to both (SWF for PCs and HTML5 for iphones, ipads, etc.). Is that not correct? Can I publish to HTML5 and it will play for both?


    What's strange is that we have two cptx files that are roughly the same size (265 MB to 227 MB). The settings, though, are the exact same. The 265 publishes at 417 MB while the smaller 227 MB file publishes at 650 MB.

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