authorPOINT 3.6 Release
Release Note - 2.2

Overview
June 22, 2006.
The authorGEN family proudly declares the release of authorPOINT 3.6 with new features as listed below.

People and groups affected by this release.
1. End User (Instructor/Presenter)

New in version 3.6:

• The term 'Presenter' will be used for author in authorPOINT 3.6
• authorPOINT will work on all windows 2000 or higher and ms-Office including non-English OS and office environments.
• 30 day trial period
  • No water mark on any of the outputs
  • Flash presentation builds will be limited to 2 minutes. The complete content will be captured but the output will be limited to 2 minutes.
    • After 30 day trial is over, The Windows media output and Real media output will be available and will produce full length presentations - FREE, in the trial mode.
    • Flash build options (including Pocket PC Flash) will be disabled.
  • On activation of authorPOINT
    • Flash build options (including Pocket PC flash) will be enabled
    • Building the presentation again into Flash will output full length presentations.
• authorPOINT Registration changed
  • InstallAP will not ask for keys in any case from the users. If earlier version was a trial version then the trial will be reset.
  • When Content Manager starts for the first time, it will prompt users for the key. This dialog box has a 'Remind Me Later' check box; selecting that one will make CM to prompt the user for keys every time they start CM till it is unregistered.
  • Upgrade to authorPOINT plus menu item will always be available in CM's Updates menu using which the user can upgrade to full version at any time.
• authorPOINT updates in Content Manager.
  • This helps to keep authorPOINT updated with latest features and bug fixes.
  • authorPOINT can be updated only by the users who are logged in with administrative privileges.
• Customer experience program
  • When the Content Manager starts for the first time, the user will be prompted requesting they share authorPOINT usage information with us periodically and automatically. The information will be collected in the Content Manager and sent to our development team
  • This preference can also be set or reset from the Content Manager's Help menu's 'Our Customer Experience Program' sub item.
• authorPOINT Plug-in
  • A new, easier to use user interface for 'Launch authorPOINT' and 'Capture screen'.
  • 'Advance Settings' have been moved to the Content Manager.
  • Option to change the annotation pen's color for annotations using a color palette.
  • Grouping of controls on Presentation Recording bar.
  • Check pre-recorded files (especially AVIs) before capture, to determine if the Content Manager is able to build these.
• Content Manager
  • Automatic Global settings for Flash 8 on Presenter's machine.
  • New Build Options
    • 'Audio Only' builds for video based presentations
    • Options to set 'Media Encoding Settings' at the time of builds.
    • 'Edit Presentation Details' option to allow you to edit and update the different details such as Presenter's information, Slide notes and slide title after a presentation has been captured.

• Media conversion process has been updated for quality.
• Animations/objects on the flash files will not be skipped on moving the slider forward.

• Network installation is not supported.
• Few web cams may get stuck for a few seconds after user clicks continue after pause state while capturing. Though this will not affect the recording of file, which will be perfectly recorded.
• CD/DVD writer in 'Distribute Content' does not work on restricted user login.
• Does not support USB Mic.
• Sometimes-random behavior of animations in HTML output.
• Narrations are supported only on office XP and higher.
• Flash output
  • Not all animations are supported in flash output. [reference to detailed document on animations supported in Flash output.(SDK Link)]
  • Picture bullet not supported.
  • Animations with emphasis effect not supported with this issue.
• Content Manager is not able to process some AVI files for which video codec is not installed in the respective system.
• Embedded and Linked media files
  • Inconsistent behavior.
  • Not applicable for Flash objects. They will be visible in the Windows media presentation but if they are moved/removed from the original location, they will not play.
  • Media objects embedded in master slides will get copied in all the slides folders hence increasing the presentation slide.
  • Sound used in slide transitions not supported.

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or above.
• Flash player 8 or above for viewing Desktop Flash presentations.
• IIS on the server needs to be configured to run FLVs from server. Add a new entry to MIME types: extension= .flv, MIME type = video/x-flv.

• Smart Installer that downloads and installs only the files which are required on a particular computer.
• Complete installer downloads the complete setup, approx. 130MB.
  

• authorPOINT 3.6 can be registered and upgraded from trial version to authorPOINT Plus (the complete version of authorPOINT 3.6) by entering the activation keys in Content manager.