Difficulty with Presenter - there is NO HTML5 option!

Oh yeah, if I publish it once without the HTML5 option, can I go back and republish later????  I need to check ability to get off of LMS by ANY format to see if I am wasting my time or if I am on the right track.

Hi, Mary -

Presenter 2009 doesn't support HTML5 publish. You may want to look at Storyline. Storyline supports HTML5 output as well as an iPad specific player that provides a superior experience to the HTML5 output.

The next version of Articulate Presenter (2012) will support HTML5 publish as well as the iOS player support but this version has not yet been released.

Thanks for your reply Steve.  Even if it isn't what I wanted to hear...:/

SOOOOO - if I have spent hours on end putting together a few Presenter presentations, any way to switch them over to storyline.  Don't worry - I am expecting more bad news. 

I am really frustrated with the HOURS I have put into this project.  I was really thinking I would be using this for years to come, but ready now to chuck the idea...

It just that when I googled this: "how to publish an articulate presentation for ipad"

this popped up... http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/how-to-publish-your-course.aspx

I didn't stop to see that it was STORYLINE vs Presenter.  Duh.  for me.

You can import your PPT presentations into Storyline. Most animations and slides should make the trip. Unsure about the narrations since I haven't tried it myself. Quizmaker files import great.

I prefer Storyline to Presenter but they are intended for slightly different purposes. Presenter is for narrated briefs with limited interactions. Storyline is more tuned for complex assemblies and interactions (states, variables, and layers). Each has strengths.

I'm dealing with some of the same issues now, but for different reasons.  I have a website utilizing Presenter content, but I'm finding more and more visitors are on iPads and unable to view the Flash files.  Needless to say, I am eagerly awaiting Presenter '12.  I'm in the process of performing what I describe below (at least for the "preview" videos on my site).

If I were you, I would take the "easy" way out.  Download a trial of Camtasia screen recorder if you don't have it already.  Simply record a "screen capture" video (including speaker audio of course) of your completed presentations playing on your computer.  You can adjust the borders of the capture area, of course, so in the end no one will really know it's a screen capture recording of the original presentation.  Set it to record the video area, press "play" on the Articulate Presenter player, and walk away and just check back on it when it should be finished.  Camtasia has editing capabilities such that you can perform any minor edits/cuts if needed to clean it up.  Then with that video file created, you can just publish that directly to HTML5 (which I believe the latest Camtasia version allows).

The big difference of course is that doing the above will simply render it as a straight "video", and the player menu won't be available, and any "links" won't be active.  So if for any reason your content depends heavily on either, then that may not work.  But so far as loss of the "menu" features, those watching it will probably not know what they're missing.  And if you just have a few links, personally I think it would be easier to do a quick removal/edit of those links and then perform the above than it would be to completely redo the whole presentation.

So to expand on Mary's question.  When support for HTML5 comes out, will it be for all the Articulate products?  I.e. Quizmaker?

You will never get a n answer from Articulate for when a product will be released, they normal answer is when it is ready

Well...from the description of the product at http://www.articulate.com/products/studio-preview.php I would say "Yes", on the basis that the Unified Player (like Storyline), includes the Quizzing functionality.

Bruce