Publishing options confusion

Report · Sep 16, 2015

I have a ton of questions about Captivate 8 publishing options.

our setting:

captivate files will live on a website, not an LMS, so we're not using the SCORM settings

we want our captivate files to be visible on multiple devices, but did not create them using the "responsive project" setting. (we may do that going forward, depending on the answers to the following questions)

my questions:

when I publish as HTML5/SWF what does that mean? Once I click on that, I then have the options to click on one of or both SWF and HTML5 in the "output format".

if I want it to be visible on devices, should I only click "html5"?

what is "scalable HTML content"? is it the same as "responsive"? if so, why is this an option if I didn't make a "responsive" project?

Thanks for any help.

Report · Sep 16, 2015

Will try to answer partially.

For publishing a normal project use both SWF/HTML5 and launch the published file from the multiscreen.htm That means that Captivate will detect which device is used, for desktop browsers it will offer the SWF output, for mobile browsers the HTML output.

Scalable means literally that, but there will not be a different layout when you switch devices, only rescaling. A responsive project allows you to make a different layout, to use less objects for a phone breakpoint, to adapt text, buttons to smaller screens etc.

Report · Sep 16, 2015

hi, thank you for responding so quickly!

can you explain what the "multiscreen.htm" is? would it be the .htm file in the zip folder with the project name, or should there be a file called "multiscreen.htm" in the folder?

Report · Sep 16, 2015

It is in the published folder.

For this screenshot you see 3 html-files:

Dashboard.htm will launch the SWF version (you have only that one if you publish only to SWF)

index.html will launch the HTML version

multiscreen.html was the file I talked about who will launch either SWF or HTML based on the used browser

Report · Sep 16, 2015

Ok, so I should always select "publish to folder"? I had been just checking the "zip file" box and ignoring the "publish to folder". should I stop zipping the outputs?

Is there any advice I should give to the website team about the "multiscreen.htm" file?

Also, what happens if I don't click "scalable html content"? will the content just not resize on an ipad or iphone?

Report · Sep 16, 2015

Zipping means that the folder is zipped. When you publish to HTML5 you always get a folder with a lot of files. The list I showed you was one for HTML5+SWF. When you publish only to SWF you will probably have only 4 files.

Your team has to launch the multiscreen.html file, not one of the other start files.

I would never use a normal project for use on iphone, cannot answer with total confidence to your last question.