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

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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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. However, such development would not be considered as rapid authoring.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In September, we made the HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate available on Adobe Labs. 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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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 25, 2018

I have a couple of questions about these formats. drag and drop) rely on swf?? What’s the easiest way to determine if a Captivate 9 course contains things that require Flash? flv format. flv format. The post HTML5 and SWF appeared first on eLearning. Which if your current features (e.g.,

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Adobe Captivate. This is a good content creation tool to consider, especially if you want to interoperate it with the other tools from the Adobe stable. The tool can convert Adobe Captivate generated files formats (.swf) swf) to digital MP4, which you can then upload on websites or play with media players.

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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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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 29, 2017

Products used in this example: Adobe Captivate (2017 release). If you do not have the 2017 release of Adobe Captivate, download a trial version of Captivate. To install Captivate, follow the installation instructions here. Import the presentation in Captivate. Open Adobe Captivate.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 5, 2016

Regardless of which application you use to create the initial document, you can make it into a form in Adobe Acrobat.   I use Adobe Illustrator to create my documents and then I save them as PDFs. When it comes to form fields, I add them in Adobe Acrobat (see my example below). Other Ways to Create a PDF.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Adobe Captivate 5: Essential Skills. During this live, interactive two-day and instructor-led class, you will get an introduction to Adobe Captivate 5 and learn the core, essential skills that will help you create killer eLearning lessons. Publishing as SWF and other formats  Instructor: Kevin Siegel.

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 10, 2017

On July 25, 2017, Adobe made the following announcement : Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats. Course format (.swf,htm).

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LearnUpon

JANUARY 23, 2018

Support for Adobe Flash Player ends in 2020. Flash is the most popular output type, so it’s likely that your courses are SWF Flash-based. This output format does have one major drawback. SWF courses do not work on certain devices; Apple devices. Don’t create any more course content that is Flash SWF based.

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CommLab India

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Storyline is widely used to convert Flash-based e-learning content, which cannot be accssed on most Smartphones and tablet PCs, into the mobile-compatible HTML5 format. Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate allows you to deliver content based on the location of the learner.

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Brilliant Teams

JUNE 9, 2023

Software simulated e-learning course Converting legacy Flash CBT (SWF) to HTML5 Length of Course 26 eLearning Flash-based CBT modules About a Software Simulation E-learning Course In recent years, the popularity of e-learning courses has skyrocketed, and one of the most engaging forms of e-learning is software simulations.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Step 2: Import into Captivate. After I got all my images in order, I inserted each one onto its own slide in Adobe Captivate, ensuring the canvas size was exactly the same as the image dimensions (in this case, 1024 x 768). That way I didn’t have to re-do the titling and background.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 27, 2019

I have gone to make small changes to an existing Captivate eLearning course created in Captivate 9, in doing so it has been converted to Captivate 2019. I now have a problem where the formatting of my slides has changed substantially and now appear all over the place. They are fine when I view them in the workspace.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Step 2: Import into Captivate. After I got all my images in order, I inserted each one onto its own slide in Adobe Captivate 3, ensuring the canvas size was exactly the same as the image dimensions (in this case, 1024 x 768). That way I didn’t have to re-do the titling and background.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 18, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    I recently received an email from a new Captivate developer who had delivered an eLearning lesson to a client via email attachment. The client informed the developer that he could not open the email attachment since he didn't own Adobe Captivate.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 13, 2012

All we have to do is to convert all the media to.flv so it can be embedded in the SWF, then publish the SCORM package to the LMS.”. Flash : Flash is a technology platform originally developed by Macromedia and later acquired and developed by Adobe systems. It’s a widely used format in elearning, and other sectors.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

My client recently posted completed projects, which look great in preview and exported in HTML5, but once it is posted to the client site the TOC is missing the visual formatting and text captions are absent. I am unfamiliar with the coding behind Captivate so any help in that area or any suggestions in general would be greatly appreciated.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 8, 2019

While playing this project or publishing in other format like SWF ,it works properly.Is But this shape (use as button) is not working as well that advance action is not executing the result,when i publish this project in HTML5 version. there any specific reason for this? appeared first on eLearning.

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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 18, 2009

Adobe Presenter, one of the key rapid authoring tools in the Adobe eLearning suite , will be releasing an important product update in the next few weeks. Paresh Kharya, the PM for Adobe Presenter, has covered some of the key highlights of this release in his post on the Connect User Forum.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 13, 2014

First, with a project open, display Captivate's Preferences ( Edit > Preferences  for Windows users;  Adobe Captivate > Preferences  for Macintosh users). You can use any of the following formats as a Preloader: jpeg, gif, bmp, wmf, or swf. Find and open your logo. Interested? 

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Also, I am required to output my course file in HTML format. HOWEVER, it seems like the auto label feature for accessibility is only applicable for SWF output (FLASH?). The post Captivate: if I output to HTML, I have to un-check “Auto Label” box in “Item Accessibility” and enter my own text?

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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 6, 2010

Through my previous blog series on text-to-speech, you have learnt about: The different text-to-speech voices in Adobe Captivate 5 (NeoSpeech and Loquendo). I have used these controls in an Adobe Captivate project (.cptx cptx and SWF file) and attached it here for your reference. Pause insertion.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Learn about Adobe Captivate from Experts. Below are links to videos that will guide you through the extraordinary features of Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate 2017 – Tutorials. Adobe Captivate 8.0.1. Adobe Captivate 8. Introduction to Adobe Captivate 8.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 29, 2019

Recently I answered several questions about Audio in Captivate. Maybe they can be useful for other Captivate users, decided to write this short blog. Although personally I mostly use Adobe Audition to record and edit audio clips for Captivate, this blog will focus only on the Audio features within Captivate.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 15, 2013

Select the image you want to compress, click the Format tab, and then click Compress Pictures. Note that enabling these options also affects the file format used. Adobe Captivate. In Captivate, you control compression settings from the Preferences dialog box before you publish.

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