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Publishing requires that you already have prepared a PowerPoint presentation with audio attached to it, and have installed the Adobe Presenter plugin.. Please review the Recording section if your presentation is has not yet reached this point. Additionally, if you wish to publish to a specific Adobe Connect server, you must have an active Adobe Presenter account.

Begin by opening the presentation you wish to publish. Once your presentation is loaded, select Publish from the Adobe Presenter menu.

You will now be given the option to publish directly to your computer, or to the Adobe Presenter server. If you would like to publish directly to your computer, choose the My Computer tab on the left, and specify the folder location for where you would like to have your presentation saved.

Along with the Folder you wish the presentation to be published to, you can also specify the Output Options: if you would like your files to be generated as a folder (default), as Zip Files, or with an autorun.exe file for a CD.

A Settings menu is available on the right side of the publish window, just above the Help button. From there, you can change the title of your presentation, choose whether it will automatically play when a viewer loads the presentation, how long slides with no audio recording will play for, and add any attachments or flash files you wish to include. Press OK when you have finished altering the Settings.

To finish, click Publish at the lower right corner of the main Publishing screen.

If you would like to publish to your Adobe Presenter server, choose the Adobe Presenter Server tab on the left and click Publish at the lower right corner of the screen. While in the past, many instructors had to publish to the server for distribution, that is no longer the case. It is recommended that you publish to your own computer so that you can then upload to Blackboard directly into your course.

Presentation Data Files

The Presenter data for the PowerPoint presentation is saved as a .ppc file (Adobe Presenter Audio File) with the same name as the .ppt file (Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation file), and is saved every time you save the .ppt file.  Keep these two files together in the same folder, and with the same file name.  If you wish to move the .ppt file to a new location, move the .ppc file with it; same with copying the files to new locations. If you wish to rename the files, we recommend opening them in PowerPoint and then choosing Save As to save a new copy of the presentation, to prevent any errors with the files being able to find each other.   If they are separated, the audio, animation timings, and slide settings will not be available when you open the presentation in PowerPoint, or it will result in errors in attempting to load the audio or other Presenter changes. The .ppc files tend to be very large because they contain all of the imported audio and video.

The published file set is different and separate from the .ppt and .ppc files.  The published files do not have to be kept with the .ppt and .ppc files.  You can put your published files on your website, email them, or save them to a CD if you wish. In order to view your presentation, you can click on the View Output button when the publishing process alerts you that it is complete, or you can open the index.htm file in the resulting folder. This will open the presentation in your default web browser.

Do not separate the published files from each other.  These include:

• a “data” folder
• breeze-manifest.xml
• components.swf
• index.htm
• loadflash.js
• viewer.swf

If the option to “Generate autorun for CD” was chosen when published, these files will also be present and should not be separated from the other published files:

• Autorun.inf
• autorun.exe
• Presenter.ico

To see the publishing process demonstrated in a Flash tutorial, you can click here. Now we can move on to the next section on how to distribute your Adobe Presenter presentation.