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JANUARY 21, 2014

  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. However, the Publish dialog box that appears couldn't be more spartan:     SWF? Looking for training on Adobe Captivate? HTML5, PDF?

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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? In the SWF Size and Quality area, I set the quality to Medium.

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JUNE 20, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    You've probably heard by now that Adobe released Adobe Captivate 6 late last week. Your learners will not need Captivate installed on their computer to use a SWF, but they will need a modern web browser and the free Adobe Flash Player (www.adobe.com). This week, HTML5.

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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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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. In this age of visual communication, incorporating interactive eLearning with your help content just makes sense. No worries. How cool is that?

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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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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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AUGUST 22, 2012

During a standard PowerPoint import process, PowerPoint pptx presentations are first converted to the ppt format, and then converted to SWF. In Captivate 6, if you select the new  High Fidelity  option, the import process will take native pptx files directly to Captivate SWF (the ppt conversion is skipped).

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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. Avoid looping objects.

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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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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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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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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. Avoid looping objects.

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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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OCTOBER 4, 2011

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? Captivate 5.5 While the Flash Player 10.3

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

The client informed the developer that he could not open the email attachment since he didn't own Adobe Captivate. If the learner is going to access the lesson over the internet (either from a web server or an LMS), publishing SWF and/or HTML5 is the way to go. Just remember that neither SWF nor HTML5 are good standalone options.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Adobe Captivate 6 introduced HTML5 output, allowing eLearning content to be interactive on mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad. Choose Insert > Adobe Captivate Demo. In the Multimedia Name field, open the swf you published from Captivate. Select Use Adobe Captivate HTML5 output. by Willam Van Weelden.

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MARCH 13, 2012

In legacy versions of Captivate, it could easily take 3-5 minutes to publish a moderately-sized project as a SWF. Kudos to the Adobe engineers for working this out.   Adobe Captivate Essentials  and  Adobe Captivate Beyond the Essentials (Advanced). It's a staggering improvement.

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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. You can use any of the following formats as a Preloader: jpeg, gif, bmp, wmf or swf.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

At the Adobe Learning Summit in San Jose, November 10th, Adobe showed several exciting new features from the next version of Captivate and from the up-coming eLearning Suite. At the Adobe Learning Summit, Adobe demonstrated the next version of Captivate, and also previewed the new Adobe eLearning Suite.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

in January 2018 it’s no wonder that Adobe is finally pulling the plug on Flash at the end of 2020. As there is so much Flash content out there in the world, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Adobe would provide a replacement to make sure this Flash content will still work after 2020. With Flash usage in websites down to 5.3%

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conversely, the mobile app experience provides better and more varied content, is FAR more secure, works anywhere the learner needs it (including when there’s no communications signal) and can integrate better into the way learners think about and use their mobile devices. The arrival of Adobe's Flash Player v10.1

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