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. When creating content within Adobe Captivate, avoid using Captivate features that are not supported by mobile devices (such as Flash animations or rollovers). 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? Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 21, 2014

I'd be surprised if any Captivate developers reading this article haven't published at least once via File > Publish.   Here's what the standard Publish dialog box looks like:     When publishing a cptx project, you can elect to publish as SWF, HTML, PDF, or all of the above. lots of choices.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Selecting the 508 Compliance option makes certain elements in Adobe Captivate projects accessible or open to accessibility technology. The following Adobe Captivate elements are accessible when the 508 Compliance option is selected:  Project name (derived from Project Properties). Slide accessibility text.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2012

From the  Welcome  screen, select  From Microsoft PowerPoint , open the PowerPoint presentation and a few clicks later, the presentation will be reborn as a Captivate project. During a standard PowerPoint import process, PowerPoint pptx presentations are first converted to the ppt format, and then converted to SWF.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Selecting the 508 Compliance option makes certain elements in Adobe Captivate projects accessible or open to accessibility technology. The following Adobe Captivate elements are accessible when the 508 Compliance option is selected: Project name (derived from Project Properties). Slide accessibility text.

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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

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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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. 

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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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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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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. Conditional actions get converted to standard actions in upgraded project.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Fortunately, adding interactivity to a lesson does not negatively impact the size of the published SWF. Rather, imported assets such as audio, video and images are the main culprits behind SWF bloat. There are some things that you can do while working in Captivate that may lower the size of the published SWF.

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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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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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LearnUpon

MARCH 27, 2018

Adobe Captivate is one of the best authoring tools available to eLearning professionals. In this tutorial, we show you how to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate so you can import it to your LMS. Adobe Captivate makes publishing eLearning content as a SCORM file simple. SCORM Preferences.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 15, 2011

While your published SWF will be smaller when compared to using the other modes listed here, this setting will lower the quality of the published images so much, you may not like it. 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

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. I'm confused. Answer: Don't get too excited.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 30, 2012

If you have been developing eLearning for any period of time, you have probably used several of Adobe’s applications to create engaging and interactive courses. With Adobe Captivate , you can create some great system simulations. Flash Player (SWF). By Dean Hawkinson. Flash Professional (FLA). InDesign Markup (IDML).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Learners attempting to open a SWF published to a more recent version of the Player than what is installed on their computer will be unable to view the lesson. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? Not so fast. We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I’m really excited to share with you that we have HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5 out on Adobe Labs. With the HTML5 Converter, you can easily convert Adobe Captivate generated SWF to HTML5 format and repurpose your countless hours of interactive trainings for your mobile devices that do not support Flash content.

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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.

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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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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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CommLab India

MAY 5, 2017

Adobe Captivate is the solution for this. Here are the steps to create software simulations with Adobe Captivate. Install the latest version of Adobe Captivate in your system and open it (the current version is Adobe Captivate 9). How to Record Software Simulation in Adobe Captivate 9.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

First, create the eLearning content in Adobe Captivate, and then publish as an SWF.   From within Adobe Connect, choose Share Document.     Click the Browse My Computer button and upload the SWF you published with Captivate. and Adobe Captivate as your eLearning tool. .

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If you publish your Captivate projects as SWFs, you can combine multiple SWF files into one lesson using the Aggregator. Once added to an Aggregator project, you can publish the combined files as a SWF, EXE file, PDF or HTML. The published Aggregator file will include a TOC using the names of the separate SWF files.

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 30, 2017

The community portal has tons of blogs and videos for a newbie to get started on Adobe Captivate. We have curated some posts and videos and arranged them progressively for you to learn Captivate. We have listed down few high-level topics that span across most of Captivate’s features. Objects in Adobe Captivate.

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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

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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Adobe Captivate

MAY 1, 2018

Since the availability of Adobe Captivate (2017 release) Update 1, users have noticed that the autoplay play feature is no longer functioning in desktop browsers. This is actually more to do with changes in the browsers than it is with Adobe Captivate.

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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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CommLab India

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Various other authoring tools provide this facility to record simulations, but Adobe Captivate 9 is the most easy-to-use tool to create software simulations. It’s a fairly simple process to record a software simulation in Adobe Captivate. How to record a software simulation in Adobe Captivate.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

First, create the eLearning content in Adobe Captivate, and then publish as an SWF.   From within Adobe Connect, choose Share Document.     Click the Browse My Computer button and upload the SWF you published with Captivate. and Adobe Captivate as your eLearning tool. .

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LearnUpon

MARCH 27, 2018

Adobe Captivate is one of the best authoring tools available to eLearning professionals. In this tutorial, we show you how to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate so you can import it to your LMS. Adobe Captivate makes publishing eLearning content as a SCORM file simple. SCORM Preferences.

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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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