Customizing the Air packager output

Report · Oct 07, 2008

How can the output of the air packager be customized? I see a field named "skin" but I see no possibility to import or create custom skins. After a lot of efforts creating a nice company-specific webhelp skin, it would be dissapointing if this is lost in the air output.

While I am at it (allthough I know this may be the wrong forum), what is the point of the digital signatures in the Air packager? After all, I can create my own right in the packager anytime so there would not be any security for the end user. On the other side, the security warning that pops up each time a user installs my Air output seems rather undisireable.

Report · Oct 07, 2008

Customised in the sense that you can choose your skin from the supplied options. I would hope that more options will be added as .AIR develops, including creating/importing your own.

If you do not get a digital signature from Verisign or suchlike, then the user will get a warning the signature is not verified and then they decide whether or not they trust you.

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Report · Oct 07, 2008

Peter, thanks for the fast reply. I hope that alternative skins will be made available over time. The best would be a skin editor as we already have it in RoboHelp.

Now I also understand the signature feature. The end user only receives the warning if I generate my own signature in the Air packager. I guess we know how secure procedures work that leave the decision on whether to proceed with the end user ; )

Actually the longer I think the less I am convinced of the Air format for HTML documents. I would not want a document to install itself to my system and forcing me to deinstall just to get rid of it again. I guess it will provide mainly an option if you can install it together with the actual software.