authorPOINT 3.8 Release for Rapid E-learning Flash Authoring
Release Note - 2.4
Overview
January 11, 2007.
The
authorGEN
family
is
pleased
to
announce
the
release
of
authorPOINT
3.8
with
new
features
for
rapid
e-learning
authoring
as listed
below.
People
and
groups
affected by this release.
1. End User (Instructor/Presenter)
New in version 3.8:
-
authorPOINT
3.8 now has a more stable version for the PowerPoint capture
process.
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New Flash Player with improvements for the sync issue in flash player output.
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Single slider for each slide in the flash player output.
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Size
optimization for the slides, which go out of the display
area in the flash player output (scroll will be displayed
for the slides which goes out and smaller slides will
be center aligned.).
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Build failure rate has been checked and improved.
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New improved PowerPoint to flash conversion.
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Quick
convert with authorFLASH has been renamed as Quick
convert with authorPOINT and it will process only
5 slides during trial period of 30 days; after 30
days, this option will not be available in trial
mode.
Known issues in this release
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Network installation is not supported.
-
Few
web cams may get stuck for a few seconds after user clicks continue
after pause state while capturing. However, this will
not
affect
the recording of the file, which will be perfectly recorded.
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CD/DVD writer in 'Distribute Content' does not work on restricted
user login.
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Does not support USB Microphone.
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Random
behavior of animations might occur sometimes in HTML output.
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Narrations
are supported only in Office XP and higher.
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Flash output
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Content
Manager is not able to process some AVI files, for which
video codec is not installed in the respective system.
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Read-only
and password protected Power Points are not supported.
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Embedded
and linked media files supported only in Windows Media
output with the following known issues:-
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Inconsistent behavior.
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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.
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Media
objects embedded in master slides will get copied in
all the slides folders - hence increasing the presentation
size.
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Sound used in slide transitions not supported.
System Requirements
On a fresh system you need to install the following tools/applications in order
to run authorPOINT.
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or above.
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Flash
player 8 or above for viewing desktop Flash presentations.
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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.
How to install
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Smart
installer that downloads and installs only the files which
are required on a particular computer.
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Complete installer downloads the complete setup, approx. 130MB.
Note:InstallAP will uninstall authorGEN for PowerPoint 2.0, authorPOINT
3.0, authorPOINT 3.01, authorPOINT 3.5, authorPOINT 3.6, authorPOINT 3.7 and
authorPOINT 3.8 (if already installed) automatically. All other versions
will have to be uninstalled manually.
Registration
-
authorPOINT
3.8 can be registered and upgraded from trial version
to authorPOINT Plus (the complete version of authorPOINT
3.8) by entering the activation key in Content Manager.
Note: authorPOINT 3.8 has a new set of activation keys;
the
keys
of
authorPOINT versions
earlier
than
authorPOINT
3.6 will not work. Contact
sales@authorgen.com
to get your key.
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