Is it just me?
April 3, 2008 12:00 AM
Not to get back off the topic, but to answer Dave's question as to why Lectora supports WAV, AVI or MPG file types, that is because Lectora does not only publish to a web based environment. Lectora also publishes to CD and EXE formats so if someone wants to use a WAV file and does not want any conversion done to it, then why not allow them. We don't want to limit individuals with the types of files they are allowed to use. The more options they have, the more freedom they have with the tool. Again, formats like WAV are not good for web use, but for those who don't understand web standards and file sizes, that is the reason we did put in the conversion tool. Individuals like CDC_Joe or SirWise23 are not going to benefit from this too much since they do their compression before they bring in the objects, but for those who don't or don't have the skill to do it themselves, Lectora can handle it with FLV conversion. You bring up a good point regarding giving the user the option to only convert certain file types or individual objects and this is a suggestion I passed down to our developers a little bit ago, so that may be something we might see sometime down the road.To get back on topic regarding one of CDC_Joe's issues and that is in regards to RM and RAM file types not being compressed. This was thought to be a bug by CDC_Joe as well as the support department here at Trivantis. This is in fact not a bug. It was never intended for RM or RAM file types to be compressed due to the ability for them to be streamed out. Support was not notified regarding this before CDC_Joe and them spoke, hence them reporting it as a bug to our developers. They have updated the help section in Lectora in SP1 to let users know that those file types are not going to be compressed. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused. I will also post this in the original forum post that CDC_Joe posted regarding this issue.
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