I would like some suggestions from the community from people who have experience with distributing content via CD - what are some of the menu and navigation options you have used to create a better user experience with content published on CD?
(Meaning an alternative to the user having to navigate through the default output folder that Articulate gives you for a CD publish)
When you publish for CD, Presenter does create an autorun.inf file. Provided you place the contents of your published output at the root level of your CD, the presentation should launch automatically when the CD is inserted.
If you wish to publish a presentation for CD in Articulate Presenter '09, feel free to check out this help documentation.
1) From the Articulate menu, select Publish -> CD. 2) Complete the publish wizard as you would normally do. 3) Open your output folder and drag the entire contents into your CD-R software.
The final point is the key one here: You’ll want to make sure that you don’t simply drag the folder to burn, and that your CD-R software doesn’t create a folder on the CD. You need to have the contents of the output directory at the root level of the CD in order for autorun to work correctly.
When the CD has finished burning, eject it from your computer and reinsert to test. If the above has been done correctly, your presentation should now run automatically.
I followed the steps for publishing to CD and for dragging the contents of the output folder to my CD-R software (Roxio Creator Basic), however the course does not run automatically. Any suggestions?
For autorun to work, the published output needs to be at the root level of the cd, not in a folder. So if your CD-ROM is the D: drive the path should be D:\autorun.inf, not D:\my_presentation\autorun.inf.
If the directory structure of your CD is correct and autorun is still not working please refer to the Microsoft Support site KB article:
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When you publish for CD, Presenter does create an autorun.inf file. Provided you place the contents of your published output at the root level of your CD, the presentation should launch automatically when the CD is inserted.
Does this mean you put the publish output folder on the CD, or the contents of the output folder?
Hey David!
If you wish to publish a presentation for CD in Articulate Presenter '09, feel free to check out this help documentation.
1) From the Articulate menu, select Publish -> CD.
2) Complete the publish wizard as you would normally do.
3) Open your output folder and drag the entire contents into your CD-R software.
The final point is the key one here: You’ll want to make sure that you don’t simply drag the folder to burn, and that your CD-R software doesn’t create a folder on the CD. You need to have the contents of the output directory at the root level of the CD in order for autorun to work correctly.
When the CD has finished burning, eject it from your computer and reinsert to test. If the above has been done correctly, your presentation should now run automatically.
Hi there!
I followed the steps for publishing to CD and for dragging the contents of the output folder to my CD-R software (Roxio Creator Basic), however the course does not run automatically. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Al
Hey Albert!
For autorun to work, the published output needs to be at the root level of the cd, not in a folder. So if your CD-ROM is the D: drive the path should be D:\autorun.inf, not D:\my_presentation\autorun.inf.
If the directory structure of your CD is correct and autorun is still not working please refer to the Microsoft Support site KB article:
The AutoRun feature or the AutoPlay feature does not work when you insert a CD-ROM in the drive
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