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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

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? HTML5, PDF?

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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

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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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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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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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

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

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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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

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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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. Adobe has officially stopped ceased further development of the Packager.

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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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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Apple’s recent announcement that it has lifted restrictions on its third-party developer guidelines has direct implications for the publishing options available from Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2. You also need to install the ‘Packager for iPhone’ from Adobe Labs. More details here.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Captivate 5.5 According to Adobe statistics, Flash Player version 10 and below is in use in 99.2% 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.

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Adobe Captivate

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Captivate Swf Events are used to achieve a tighter integration between Captivate SWFs and Flash or Flex.Captivate SWF events are fired with the Captivate SWF file as the event source so that external observers (like loader swfs in Flash/Flex or Java script) can take some action based upon these events.

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mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 12, 2011

Today I’m happy to report that our much anticipated update of Adobe Presenter with full support for ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) AS3) is here, and this is a free update to anyone who owns Adobe Presenter 7, or any version of our Adobe eLearning Suite. As I wrote above, Adobe Presenter 7.0.7 Send to Kindle.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

by Kevin Siegel When I teach my RoboHelp class , one of the RoboHelp features that most excites my students is RoboHelp's ability to import eLearning lessons published by Adobe Captivate. Insert the Captivate video into the topic by choosing Insert > Adobe Captivate Demo. No worries. How cool is that?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 29, 2014

by Kevin Siegel       If you have already created a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, it's very easy to re-purpose the presentation as eLearning content using either TechSmith Camtasia Studio or Adobe Presenter.   Adobe Presenter 9 and PowerPoint.   Looking for training on Adobe Presenter?

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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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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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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 12, 2011

Topic: Customizing the Project Interface with Adobe Captivate 5: TOC, skin editor and project resize Date and time: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on customizing the table of contents, playbar and the appearance of the final SWF.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In last week’s eSeminar we focused on the eLearning Suite Workflows. Understanding the Adobe eLearning Suite Workflow. Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online e-Seminar for intermediate users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

Adobe Edge Animate. Captivate Version 6. Here’s a good, low-cost option for quick conversion of your existing Captivate-based projects for tablets. Swiffy converts SWF files to HTML5. So let’s start with…. And you can also add animation to callouts, images, videos, and more. Google Swiffy. and ActionScript 3.0

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Steve Howard

JANUARY 20, 2009

Captivate 4 , Adobe , eLearning Suite. Adobe announced the release of Captivate 4 today. Top new features in Adobe Captivate 4. SWF commenting. Adobe Photoshop® layer support. Adobe Photoshop® layer support. Posted in Adobe, Captivate, eLearning.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 19, 2009

articulate engage , adobe captivate , migration , reuse elearning content , adobe elearning suite. In previous posts we have seen how we can reuse Articulate Presenter files by converting it to Adobe Presenter files. Adobe presenter is a part of Adobe eLearning suite. Say OK to the dialog.

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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. SWF courses do not work on certain devices; Apple devices. A complete redesign of the courses to suit HTML5. Don’t create any more course content that is Flash SWF based.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Sometimes we need to embed the published Adobe Captivate SWF in an HTML page which has the branded template of our organization. If we have the luxury of changing the default HTML template for Adobe Captivate, there is nothing like it! This template can be a company website, home-grown LMS, or a portal.

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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. Tags: eLearning Suite.

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CommLab India

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate is a good e-learning development software that has become synonymous with the development of web-based software training courses. Adobe Captivate allows you to deliver content based on the location of the learner. The tool has the best-in class screen recording capabilities.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 15, 2013

Now, let’s explore the basic compression settings that come inside each of the four rapid e-learning authoring tools we use at Artisan E-Learning (Studio, Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora). Adobe Captivate. In Captivate, you control compression settings from the Preferences dialog box before you publish.

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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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MARCH 13, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    One of the wonderful hidden advantages of using Captivate 5 and 5.5 In legacy versions of Captivate, it could easily take 3-5 minutes to publish a moderately-sized project as a SWF. With Captivate 5 (and 5.5), I've seen my publishing wait time lower by as much as 95%.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 26, 2013

Adobe Captivate 6 introduced HTML5 output, allowing eLearning content to be interactive on mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad. By combining Captivate's and RoboHelp's HTML5 outputs, you can easily support interactivity for iPhones and iPad in your help system. Embed Captivate HTML5 Content Within RoboHelp.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The moment a learner clicks the link to start your eLearning lesson published using Adobe Captivate, you are in control over what the learner sees as they are waiting for the lesson to begin to play, and how long they have to wait before the lesson starts. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 ? by Kevin Siegel.

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