ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0
User Guide
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About cross-platform projectors
Cross-platform projectors are projectors created on one platform or operating system that can run on another. In
Director’s case, you can create projectors that will play on the Mac OS X system, but are created or authored on a
Windows system and vice versa.
Note:
You cannot create Mac Classic projectors on a Windows system.
1
Select File > Publish Settings.
2
From the Formats tab, select Mac Projector if you are working on a Windows system, or select Windows
Projector if you are working on a Mac.
3
Make any other selections you want from the Publish Settings dialog box.
Note:
You cannot create custom application icons for a cross-platform projector
4
Click Publish.
Note:
Avoid long file names and path names when publishing in the OSX format. When long file names and path names
are used, publishing can fail after throwing a cfrg resource missing error.
Custom Xtra extensions and cross-platform projectors
To support custom Xtra extensions in cross-platform projectors, consider the following issues:
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Ensure that there is an entry for your Xtra extension in the xtrainfo.txt file that gives the proper filename for the
Xtra extension on each platform. If this information is not provided, the code assumes your Xtra extension exists
only for the current platform.
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To use your custom Windows Xtra extension in a Mac-created projector, put the Xtra extension in the /Cross
Platform Resources/Windows/Xtras/ folder of the Mac Director installation.
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Mac Xtras must have both a data fork and a resource fork. These two fork files aren’t supported on Windows. For
each Mac Xtra extension, two files are created: one for the data fork and one for the resource fork. The names for
these files must be the same as the original Xtra extension name with a suffix (.
data
for the data fork and
.rsrc
for the
resource fork). Both of these files are placed in the /Cross Platform Resources/Mac/Xtras/ folder of the Windows
Director installation.
For example, the Mac Xtra called “MyXtra” would have two files on Windows,
MyXtra.data
and
MyXtra.rsrc
.
Processing movies with Update Movies
Use the Update Movies command on the Xtras menu to do the following:
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Update movies and casts from older version of Director to the latest file format.
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Compress movies for faster downloading from the Internet.
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Remove redundant and fragmented data in movie and cast files. The Save and Compact and Save As commands
also do this.
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Prevent users from opening movie and cast files.
•
Batch process movie and cast files in large projects.
When beginning a project, use Update Movies to convert Director 5 or later version files to the latest file format.
