Adobe Captivate

JUNE 25, 2018

drag and drop) rely on swf?? What’s the easiest way to determine if a Captivate 9 course contains things that require Flash? The post HTML5 and SWF appeared first on eLearning. Which if your current features (e.g., We used to import all videos for our modules in the .flv flv format. Will.flv files work in HTML5 courses?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 2, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    I've published a ton of eLearning lesson using Adobe Captivate, and I have seen the Publish dialog box more times than I can count. If you hadn't noticed the option in the lower right of the Captivate 6 Publish dialog box, join the crowd.    Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 21, 2018

I’ve seen several posts related to the SWF output and the lack of browser support or simply having issues playing them. I also have a number of projects that were published as SWF from old versions of Captivate. In many cases, all I have any longer is the final SWF. The post What about all those old SWF files?

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 21, 2018

When I publish in Captivate 2017 in a SWF format, MP4 videos inserted into a frame does not open. The post MP4 videos won’t open when published to an SWF in Captivate 2017 appeared first on eLearning. I receive “connection error” or “error” I get this error on MacBook and Windows PC.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 14, 2013

For instance, I use Adobe Captivate to create most of my eLearning content, and Adobe RoboHelp to create my Help Systems. If you have created an eLearning lesson using eLearning tools such as Adobe Captivate, TechSmith's Camtasia Studio or Articulate's Storyline, you can insert the multimedia directly into RoboHelp Help Topics.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 10, 2013

A few years ago I was in Canada teaching Captivate for a large Toronto-based company. We were just getting ready to cover the accessible features found in Captivate when I was informed that I could skip the section because Canadians were not required to create accessible content. What Does Captivate do to be Section 508 Compliant?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 4, 2014

You can see there's nothing particularly special about the text (beyond the promise of an Adobe Captivate simulation).      After clicking where I wanted the simulation to appear, I chose  File > Import > File  and opened a SWF I had published earlier using Adobe Captivate. Interested? 

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I often hear from Captivate developers who are required to output smaller and smaller SWFs, while making their lessons more and more interactive. Fortunately, adding interactivity to a lesson does not negatively impact the size of the published SWF. However, nothing will bloat a published SWF quite like audio.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I am attempting to embed short (10 sec) video files to a captivate 2019 project and publish it as an swf file. When viewing the swf file, the videos appear to be attempting to load (i get loader icon indications) but the video never loads. I need this video saved into the swf file, if at all possible.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 22, 2012

Are you moving away from presentations and toward eLearning lessons created with Captivate? And are you bummed because all of that great PowerPoint content is basically going to have to be redone in Captivate? Don't Importing a PowerPoint presentation into Captivate couldn't be easier.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 12, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    I received an email from a Captivate developer asking if it was possible to remove the white space that appears between the browser toolbars and SWF when a lesson is opened within a browser. In the image below, notice that there is white space above the SWF (just below the browser's menu bar). 

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 17, 2010

Question About Adobe Captivate 5: What's Up With the "Enable SWF for conversion to iPhone application" Option? I know that Apple and Adobe are at war with regards to SWF output playing on the iPhone or iPad. " Does this mean that Captivate 5 output will play on the iPhone and that I should get excited?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 12, 2011

The common way to publish a completed Captivate eLearning video is as a SWF (small web file). When the publish process is complete, you will end up with three files: an HTML file (which is what your learner will need to open the lesson in a web browser), a JavaScript file (called standard.js) and the SWF containing your lesson. 

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The post Swf compilation failed. I received this error when I attempted to Preview my project. What did I do wrong? Alternatively, how do I correct it? appeared first on eLearning.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 21, 2014

.   Over the past few weeks I've shown you how to trim portions of a Captivate Video Demo and how to Pan & Zoom.   Publishing a Video Demo (cpvc) might seem like a no-brainer if you have past exerience working with standard Captivate project (cptx). Looking for training on Adobe Captivate? lots of choices.

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 30, 2017

When you insert YouTube widget in your Adobe Captivate 2017 project using Interactions menu > Learning Interactions and view the SWF output, you may experience the following issues: Video content getting truncated/cut-off in IE 11. Publish the SWF output and YouTube widget will work fine on IE11, Chrome and Firefox.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In an ideal world, your Captivate projects would be kept to a respectable number of slides (fewer than approximately 100). If you publish your Captivate projects as SWFs, you can combine multiple SWF files into one lesson using the Aggregator. Looking to learn Captivate? by Kevin Siegel.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 21, 2013

Have you ever visited the Preferences dialog box in Adobe Captivate (Windows users, Edit > Preferences ; Mac users,  Adobe Captivate > Preferences ), made several changes and later, maybe months later, needed those settings on another computer running Captivate? Open a Captivate project and set your Preferences.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 1, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    Several years ago I was in Canada teaching Captivate for a large Toronto-based company. We were just getting ready to cover the accessible features found in Captivate when I was informed that I could skip the section because Canadians were not required to create accessible content.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 12, 2013

I'm happy to report that my newest book, "Adobe Captivate 7: The Essentials"  is now available for purchase. "Adobe Captivate 7: The Essentials" is a self-paced training manual that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    I wrote about the HTML5 output option available in Adobe Captivate 6 a  few months ago. I pointed out that HTML5 is an alternative publishing format to a SWF. For example, Rollover Captions, Rollover Images and SWF animations are not HTML5 compliant.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 29, 2019

Hi, there are certain motions I’m recording in my software and it will convert the background to swf. Flash is done–why is it recording actions in swf?? The post Drag/drop recording in swf appeared first on eLearning. so when it gets online, you don’t see it at all. How do I get around this?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    Several years ago I was in Canada teaching Captivate for a large Toronto-based company. We were just getting ready to cover the accessible features found in Captivate when I was informed that I could skip the section because Canadians were not required to create accessible content.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 10, 2019

I used captivate CS 5.5 At that time), I preferred all my O/P publication in SWF. But as HTML5 is now growing as default standard, I just republished my old Captivate projects in HTML5, but it is not giving any output in HTML5. Also checked for any transient effect and similar SWF component…. and then CS6 a lot in 2014.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I have a Captivate course that ran well, until I had to switch from SWF to HTML5. I didn’t have this issue in SWF. The post Quiz less responsive to clicking since change from SWF to HTML5. first time post from a very non techie person! Any ideas on what I can do to make the quiz more responsive to being clicked?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Adobe recently posted a fix for Captivate 9 that, according to Adobe, addresses the following issues in Adobe Captivate 9. Effects are not played fully in SWF, when the effect duration is less than the default effect duration. Effects are not played fully in SWF, when the effect duration is less than the default effect duration.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 15, 2011

As a Captivate developer, you are constantly striving to offer the nicest-looking published file, at the smallest possible size. Captivate offers four image quality levels you can specify. The compression JPEGs is controlled by the JPEG quality percentage via the SWF size and quality preferences (via File > Publish Settings ).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In September, Adobe made the HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate available on Adobe Labs. According to Adobe, "With HTML5 Converter, you can easily convert Adobe Captivate generated SWF to HTML5 format and repurpose your countless hours of interactive trainings for mobile devices that do not support Flash content."

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 30, 2012

With Adobe Captivate , you can create some great system simulations. Flash Player (SWF). One problem that I did run into with InDesign was using Flash (SWF) files imbedded into the document. Your design of the document would be much simpler, so the end user could easily print it for future reference. Flash Professional (FLA).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 16, 2015

We are proud to announce that our newest book, "Adobe Captivate 9: The Essentials Workbook" has begun shipping.      This book is a self-paced training manual that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content.    Order here.

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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 26, 2018

I have imported a flash swf animation to a Captivate 2019 project. But the widget play/pause button does not control the flash swf on the slide. What settings should I use so the swf is controlled by the playbar widget play/pause button. The post Widget Captivate 2019 appeared first on eLearning.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

Unlike screen capturing tools, the published output is not just a passive video, but is in a fully interactive format such as Flash SWF. Adobe Captivate is one such popular tool for developing guided or exploratory software simulations.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Due to popular demand from our friends in Europe, we're now offering our top rated Captivate training during Central European Time Zone hours!    Class Schedule.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 13, 2017

In this blog, we’re going to address how to take the small modules of microlearning you’ve created and combine them into one amazing over-arching course using the tools provided in Captivate. This only publishes in SWF format so it may not be the most useful in an age when HTML5 is quickly gaining popularity over Flash.

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Adobe Captivate

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Most of us, sometime or the other, have had a need to manipulate the HTML page that contains the Captivate SWF file. The requirement may have been to display a custom message or change an image in the HTML page on click of a button inside the SWF. This can be achieved by sending data [.].

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 4, 2011

Further to Shameer’s post on “Publish to iPhone from Captivate and eLearning Suite“, here are the next steps to generate the iPhone app. from your Captivate SWF.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 11, 2016

If you're looking to learn Adobe Captivate. Learn to publish SWF, HTML5, or both. Get a Jump-Start On Mastering This Awesome eLearning Development Tool! and quickly. this beginner course is for you. During the 6 chapters that make up this course you'll learn how to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch.

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