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From: 83Dons on 14 Aug 2008 09:37 Hi I am trying to get the Authoware Web Player installed at a local University. They are saying there are problems in Licensing and quoting the following Adobe Technote: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14236&sliceId=2 How do you go about deploying the webplayer currently to a large organisation. Are there Player Distribution Agreement you can get from Adobe somewhere?
From: Erik L. **Community Expert** on 14 Aug 2008 10:23 Yeah, for some reason Adobe no longer provides the Authorware Web Player for download, specifically, so you can distribute it internally. It doesn't say your Not Allowed to do that, it just doesn't provide an easy download of the player and 'suggests' that if you did distribute the player internally before, please grab it from Adobe's site directly now... ....which is a bit ridiculous if you have several client computers, especially considering the unreliability of installing the plugin from Adobe's site since the merger with Macromedia (see other posts here and the forums about users unable to download the web player). SO, indeed, technically it doesn't look like internal distribution is an option any more. On the side, I would imagine (guess! suppose!) Adobe wouldn't really have a problem with an organization doing a mass internal deployment of the player, and it's easy to obtain the player through other means (note the location of the player from any HTML page that has the player object tags). But if you need 'official' approval then, yeap, you're apparently pretty much out of luck. Erik 83Dons wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to get the Authoware Web Player installed at a local University. > They are saying there are problems in Licensing and quoting the following Adobe > Technote: > > http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14236&sliceId=2 > > How do you go about deploying the webplayer currently to a large organisation. > Are there Player Distribution Agreement you can get from Adobe somewhere? > -- Erik Lord http://www.capemedia.net Adobe Community Expert - eLearning http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.awaretips.net - Authorware Tips!
From: Tony on 26 Aug 2008 19:39 Is there anyone who can please make available a copy of "authorware_web_player_installers.zip" so that I can set up a player distribution, if necessary. I don't want to be left high and dry if Adobe decides to stop making the player available. Many thanks "Erik L. **Community Expert**" <erik(a)pasdespam.capemedia.net> wrote in message news:g81f36$drg$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > Yeah, for some reason Adobe no longer provides the Authorware Web Player > for download, specifically, so you can distribute it internally. It > doesn't say your Not Allowed to do that, it just doesn't provide an easy > download of the player and 'suggests' that if you did distribute the > player internally before, please grab it from Adobe's site directly now... > ...which is a bit ridiculous if you have several client computers, > especially considering the unreliability of installing the plugin from > Adobe's site since the merger with Macromedia (see other posts here and > the forums about users unable to download the web player). > > SO, indeed, technically it doesn't look like internal distribution is an > option any more. On the side, I would imagine (guess! suppose!) Adobe > wouldn't really have a problem with an organization doing a mass internal > deployment of the player, and it's easy to obtain the player through other > means (note the location of the player from any HTML page that has the > player object tags). > > But if you need 'official' approval then, yeap, you're apparently pretty > much out of luck. > Erik > > 83Dons wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am trying to get the Authoware Web Player installed at a local >> University. They are saying there are problems in Licensing and quoting >> the following Adobe Technote: >> >> >> http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14236&sliceId=2 >> >> How do you go about deploying the webplayer currently to a large >> organisation. Are there Player Distribution Agreement you can get from >> Adobe somewhere? >> > > -- > Erik Lord > http://www.capemedia.net > Adobe Community Expert - eLearning > http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > http://www.awaretips.net - Authorware Tips!
From: Erik L. **Community Expert** on 27 Aug 2008 09:41 You can find the 'cab' files yourself by publishing a web-packaged Authorware piece, ensuring the HTML behind it carries the object tag for the player, and checking that code. For example, result is: <object classid="CLSID:15B782AF-55D8-11D1-B477-006097098764" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/cabs/authorware/awswaxd.cab#version=2004,0,0,73"> <param name="SRC" value="MapFile.aam"> <embed src="MapFile.aam" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=AWPfull"type="application/x-authorware-map"> </embed> </object> You can see the URL for the IE and non-IE players within. I'm not sure which version is specified there ("awswaxd" = 'full', I think) but you can be certain by going through the publishing process and selecting which version you want in the OBP options....though it'll likely give you the v7 player, so change the final #version to the same you see above. If that's not too confusing ;-) Erik Tony wrote: > Is there anyone who can please make available a copy of > "authorware_web_player_installers.zip" so that I can set up a player > distribution, if necessary.
From: Tony on 30 Aug 2008 20:13
Thanks Eric. The 2004 version of the cab file below, works with all earlier versions of Authorware doesn't it ? "Erik L. **Community Expert**" <erik(a)pasdespam.capemedia.net> wrote in message news:g93lih$fqg$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > You can find the 'cab' files yourself by publishing a web-packaged > Authorware piece, ensuring the HTML behind it carries the object tag for > the player, and checking that code. > For example, result is: > > <object classid="CLSID:15B782AF-55D8-11D1-B477-006097098764" > codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/cabs/authorware/awswaxd.cab#version=2004,0,0,73"> > <param name="SRC" value="MapFile.aam"> > <embed src="MapFile.aam" > pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=AWPfull"type="application/x-authorware-map"> > </embed> > </object> > > You can see the URL for the IE and non-IE players within. I'm not sure > which version is specified there ("awswaxd" = 'full', I think) but you can > be certain by going through the publishing process and selecting which > version you want in the OBP options....though it'll likely give you the v7 > player, so change the final #version to the same you see above. > If that's not too confusing ;-) > Erik > > Tony wrote: >> Is there anyone who can please make available a copy of >> "authorware_web_player_installers.zip" so that I can set up a player >> distribution, if necessary. |