Robohelp Air to exe

Can someone please explain the process of how to convert an air file made by robohelp 8 into exe? I have installed the latest air runtime 2.0.3

Hi there
I'm not sure it's possible to achieve. AIR is a technology that Adobe created and it relies upon the AIR runtime to be present on the end user's PC in order to install. Or is this what you are asking. How to package the help output so it exists as an exe file that first installs the AIR runtime followed immediately by the RoboHelp produced AIR package.
Cheers... Rick
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I installed the RoboHelp Packager for Air to work with my
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click the "Generate" button in the AIR wizard. It does show me the
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This post has information from Praful Jain (of Adobe) and a link to another relevant thread. There was a link to it in the article on my site.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2503999#2503999
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Axe

"Axe_AP" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gqs5k7$cjp$[email protected]..
> Hey everyone,
>
> I am trying to create an Adobe AIR installer(.exe). I
already created the
> .fla
> file and tested it. It didn't seem to work and gave me
the error of
>
"You
> cannot debug this SWF because it does not contain
ActionScript" and
> acc. to
> this link
>
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-168154.html
>
> I created a new environment variable called
JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS of -Xmx256M.
> And
> then the .fla file seemed to work . Apparently there is
too much code in
> my
> .fla file with as many as 20 videos (.flv) and lot of
radio-buttons ( I
> mean A
> lot of them !!! )...
>
> Now with the .fla file working, when I am trying to
create an AIR
> installer it
> is throwing the error,
" Error creating AIR file. Picked up
> JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx256M ? .
> so I am not able to create the AIR Installer. and If I
change back
> the -Xmx
> 256M then my .fla file won't work. So what do I do now ?
I somehow removed
> the
> above -Xmx 256M variable and created a AIR installer
with a self-signed
> certificate and when I try to install that AIR
installer, I get another
> error
> message,
"The application could not be installed. Try installing it
> again.
> If the problem persists, contact the application author.
Error# 0".
>
> So I have 2 questions:
>
> 1. how do I create this AIR installer(.exe) and make it
work as a .exe
> file
> and run it without having Adobe flash CS3 installed on
another computer
> and
> please help me in my case as above.
>
> 2. Also, would I need to buy a digital certificate to
create the AIR
> installer
> or can I use a self-signed certificate to create an AIR
installer and use
> it to
> install the AIR application on a few computers ? Please
help
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after I showed them a test project. As with any new format, there
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possible before I begin a large project with tight deadlines where
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has developed a game in flash with as3 CS4.
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