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The Demise of the Flash Player – What Do I Do Now?

Adobe Captivate

Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats. This announcement has a major impact on any organization which has e-learning courses published to run in Adobe Flash player.

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Publishing Adobe Captivate Projects: SWF, HTML5, or Both?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      If you attend our  Adobe Captivate Beginner class , you will learn how to publish projects as SWF (for desktop users) and HTML5 (for mobile users).  According to Adobe, the Flash Player is installed on the majority of the world's computers. Of course, SWFs have a problem.

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Discovering Adobe InDesign for eLearning

Integrated Learnings

Flash Professional (FLA). Flash Player (SWF). One problem that I did run into with InDesign was using Flash (SWF) files imbedded into the document. For some PCs, the Flash elements worked fine. Other Export options for InDesign include the following: EPS. InDesign Markup (IDML).

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

Though some Flash platforms tools like the Flex SDK are freely available from Adobe, for animation and design you still need to depend on Adobe’s Creative Suite of tools – which is not free. The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. Is there competition for Flash? How’s it going?

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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Supported source formats are: asf, avi, dv, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, wmv. The embedded videos are played back from within SWF, so you can create your own components to control the video playback. Flash player 8 and later have option of letting user view Flash content in true full screen. Choosing source video.

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Adobe Captivate 6: HTML5 At Last!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Currently the most common way to publish a Captivate project is as a Flash SWF, an excellent solution because SWF files can be used by the vast majority of the world's personal computers, browsers and operating systems. According to Adobe, the Flash Player is installed on the vast majority of the word's computers.

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What about all those old SWF files?

Adobe Captivate

I’ve seen several posts related to the SWF output and the lack of browser support or simply having issues playing them. I also have a number of projects that were published as SWF from old versions of Captivate. In many cases, all I have any longer is the final SWF. The post What about all those old SWF files?

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