SWf files not working in Adobe PDF and PowerPoint
Feb 26, 2013
By
Ted Haas
Cheers All,
First the important stuff. Please accept the wishes of me and mine, that you and yours all have a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2013 and beyond.
Now to my issue I have Articulate studio 9 and after owning for 28 months I finally have time to play with it. I created a tabbed interaction in engage and published it to a folder. When I double click on the swf file and select flash to open it. Life is beautimous. When I either try to embed this same file into either a PowerPoint or an adobe pdf when I click on it I get the wonderful circular pulsating progress bar of technological masturbation which never ends. Is there a way I can get the swf file to be usable in either PowerPoint in Adobe Acrobat?
Regards
Ted Haas
9 Replies
Howdy Ted,
Welcome to Heroes!. Thank you. I hope the same for you as well. I apologize for how long it has taken for someone to get back to you. Please take a look at the following tutorial as I believe it has the answers you are looking for.
Always Happy to Help,
Adrian
Cheers Adrian,
thanks but the tutorial doesn't help as the swf files are not playing in the presenter output. I am more specifically trying to create an interaction in engage and then place it in a presentation from engage. That process as well yields no interaction. I am assuming it is not posting a picture of the interaction like it seems to be doing in word as well.
Regards
Ted
Howdy Ted,
How are you viewing your published output? Are you publishing to the web? LMS? Are you viewing the published output locally or via a web server/LMS? Which file in the published output are you clicking on to view the Engage Interaction? The player.html should be the one that you use.
Adrian
Cheers Adrian,
I am saving into a presentation and then trying the presentation is slide show mode. I am also trying to embed the swf file into a pdf When I use output from other software like sap presentation design (dashboard) the interactivity survives in those file formats. Maybe I need to convert the swf files output from engage into FLV files or another file. type. Your thoughts?
Howdy Ted,
PowerPoint by itself doesn't support flash which is why it isn't working. Converting it to an FLV still won't change anything and you will lose any interactivity you had by doing so.
Do you have Presenter?
Adrian
Cheers Adrian,
I think you pushed me to understanding. I was saving the presentation not publishing the whole deal. Now I see it generates the player and then if I carry the folder with me I can double click on the html and it will open up in a browser and I can click though the whole presentation. I was thinking of engage just as a swf publishing component but it does not pump out the kind of compliant swf that can play by itself.
Howdy Ted,
No problem. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Adrian
Ted,
I import my published swf files from Captivate to Articulate all the time. Check out this tutorial.
http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2008/06/11/how-to-add-a-captivate-movie-to-articulate-presenter/
The concept should be similar if not the same.
Cheers Remeka,
Thanks your blog is interesting but a bit orthogonal. Going between the applications is not my issue. My issue is I have a captive LMS where I can only post complete single swf files. So I can post folders with dependent (called ((Called in the technical sense not named)) swf components) If you know of a way I can take the output of Articulate and then bring them together to create a complete single swf that is the holy grail I am seeking. I have talked to the development staff at articulate and cannot get a sense if the option of publishing a single complete swf is on the board for studio 13. If so I don;t mind upgrading, if not I have to ultimately abandon the software as the single swf file requirement will not be going away. My research indicates this requirement will much more likely proliferate to other systems.
Regards
Ted Haas
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