Using The Air Review Application - Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual

Last updated 4/22/2010

Using the AIR Review application

Creating reviews for Adobe Captivate projects
After creating and editing an Adobe Captivate project, the author can publish the project for review on one of the
following:
• An internal server
• Acrobat.com
The project is published as a CREV file, a custom SWF file that is used for review.
Reviewers can review the CREV file by opening it in Adobe Captivate Reviewer, an AIR application. The installer for
the application, AdobeCaptivateReviewer.air, is present in the location where you installed Adobe Captivate.
If you choose an internal server for the review process, you can send the AIR application along with the e-mail
notification for review. If you choose Acrobat.com for the review process, the reviewers have to install the AIR
application from the URL included in the default e-mail message.
Note: Reviewers can install Adobe Captivate Reviewer without installing Adobe Captivate on their computers. However,
they need to install Adobe AIR before installing the application. Adobe AIR can be downloaded for free from the Adobe
website http://get.adobe.com/air/. Installing the AIR application is a one-time effort.
In a shared review where the author and the reviewers are on a common network, each of them can view comments
posted by the other. The author, in addition, can accept, reject, or ask for feedback for the comments posted by the
reviewers.
Reviewers who are not a part of the shared network can export their comments to an XML file and send it to the author.
The author can import the XML file into the project, and view comments in the timeline of the slides where the
reviewers posted them.
During the review cycle, the author and reviewers can view the latest comments posted by refreshing the contents of
the application.
Publishing a project for review
You can publish Adobe Captivate projects for review either by clicking the Send For Review button on the Main
toolbar or by opening the Publish dialog box and navigating to the Review tab. You can optionally suggest a shared
folder for storing the review comments. Comments from all the reviewers are posted to this shared folder, and the
author can access review comments from this location. You can send an e-mail to the reviewers, optionally with the
generated review file (CREV) and the Adobe Captivate Reviewer installer.
Publish the project and send it by e-mail
Select File > Collaborate > Send for Shared Review.
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In the Send for Shared Review dialog box, type a name for the review file (CREV file) and then select Automatically
2
Collect Comments From My Own Internal Server.
Click Next.
3
Use the following options to create the CREV file:
4
The location where the CREV file is published. Click Browse if you want to specify a different
Publish Folder
location for the generated files.
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