Stand Alone on Mac

[jay fresno]

If a Captivate project is published as a Stand Alone Zip, can the zip file be opened by a Mac user?

[stoopkid]

Most Mac users have StuffItExpander, which is a utility that opens pretty much every type of file extension.

Your users shouldn't have a problem, just as long as there is no EXE file within the ZIP.

Hope this helps.

[jay fresno]

Since it is a Stand Alone project it would be an EXE file. Sounds like that means that the EXE would NOT be openable on a Mac?

[stoopkid]

Correct jay fresno. Macs do not recognize EXE files.

In earlier versions of Captivate they had the option for a hzx (I think that was the name) file, which was "like" an exe, but today, there is no option.

[jay fresno]

Michael,
Thanks for confirming. Too bad Captivate dropped the HXZ format for Mac.

[Captiv8r]

Hi all

While I'm nowhere even neophyte status when it comes to Macs, the output was actually .HQX for Mac.
(I just looked to see from a Captivate 1 and 2 output for Mac)

Cheers all... Rick