I am trying to publish a course and it has a total of 55 slides. Articulate Presenter keeps freezing, stopping, and crashing once it reaches the slide number around 45. I published the first half of the course and the second half of the course separately (27 and 32 slides respectively) and it worked fine. Is there anything that I can do to be able to publish the course all together successfully?
Hi Kate - Do you have a lot of text on slide 45 by any chance? I've encountered this same thing when publishing text heavy slides. Another thing that hangs Articulate is Smart Art. The only way I could get around the issue of the slide with too much text was to split the content over 2 slides. For the Smart Art, I saved the art as a picture, then deleted the Smart Art form PowerPoint and imported the picture.
If you continue to have difficulty, I would suggest you send us your project files so we can take a closer look. Instructions on how to do that can be found here: http://upload.articulate.com
I tried the steps in the article, but the course still did not publish. I realized that we put page numbers on the bottom of each slide as individual buttons, which added up to a lot of objects in the entire presentation. When I took out the page numbers, the course published fine! So I am guessing that the amount of objects in the entire presentation were too many and therefore took the course too long to publish and eventually just time out? So I am guessing the best way to fix that is by saving the individual objects together as one picture on each slide.
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Hi Kate - Do you have a lot of text on slide 45 by any chance? I've encountered this same thing when publishing text heavy slides. Another thing that hangs Articulate is Smart Art. The only way I could get around the issue of the slide with too much text was to split the content over 2 slides. For the Smart Art, I saved the art as a picture, then deleted the Smart Art form PowerPoint and imported the picture.
Hi Kate and welcome to Heroes! I would take a look at this article and see if it helps:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=497
If you continue to have difficulty, I would suggest you send us your project files so we can take a closer look. Instructions on how to do that can be found here:
http://upload.articulate.com
Thank you, Nancy and Justin!
I tried the steps in the article, but the course still did not publish. I realized that we put page numbers on the bottom of each slide as individual buttons, which added up to a lot of objects in the entire presentation. When I took out the page numbers, the course published fine! So I am guessing that the amount of objects in the entire presentation were too many and therefore took the course too long to publish and eventually just time out? So I am guessing the best way to fix that is by saving the individual objects together as one picture on each slide.
Thank you for your help!
Sincerely,
Kate
Hi Kate,
That is a good way to fix it. Just be sure to save the individual objects somewhere in case you need to make edits!
Another way to solve this problem is to use slide masters.
Hope this helps,
Heidi
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