Today I made a véry basic course, some 30 slides with nothing more then a background, a picture and an shape with text. No engage, quiz or whatever. In the PPT it is 2300 kb. Published to zip it ends up at 44000 kb.
I have another file, about the same size, and that one remained small in the zip.
How do I make the zip small? I can't upload such a large file to moodle.
- no audio
- pictures are resized and lowered on quality to 75%
- no video etc
And... do I have a slow computer or does publishing take long for everyone? (10 - 15 min for 30 slides) I read somewhere about a masterslide to speed things up, but couldn't find anything on that topic.
You may want to try adjusting your publish settings to see if that reduces your file size.
And when you publish a presentation with Articulate Presenter '09, each element of a slide is included in a .SWF file. If you build a presentation that contains a common element or background image on each slide without using master slides, that same element would need to be downloaded multiple times throughout the presentation. However, if that element is included in a master slide, it will only need to be downloaded once.
For information on how to create a master slide and apply it to your presentation, please take a look at this KB article.
Thanks for the information. I checked CD-version, because I did a CD version first. But it was set to LMS. The master slide should help, I'l try that one for the course I'm working on right now.
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Hi Sin!
You may want to try adjusting your publish settings to see if that reduces your file size.
And when you publish a presentation with Articulate Presenter '09, each element of a slide is included in a .SWF file. If you build a presentation that contains a common element or background image on each slide without using master slides, that same element would need to be downloaded multiple times throughout the presentation. However, if that element is included in a master slide, it will only need to be downloaded once.
For information on how to create a master slide and apply it to your presentation, please take a look at this KB article.
I would check you are publishing to web or lms, large file sizes often come from publishing to CD
Thanks for the information. I checked CD-version, because I did a CD version first. But it was set to LMS. The master slide should help, I'l try that one for the course I'm working on right now.
The masterslide was indeed the problem. Problem solved!
Awesome, Sin! Glad to hear it
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