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Adobe Captivate 5.5: Flash Player Version Aversion

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One of the big decisions you will need to make during the Publish process ( File > Publish ) is which Flash Player to choose from the Flash Player Version drop-down menu. sports three versions of the Flash Player: 9, 10 and 10.2. While the Flash Player 10.3 Flash Player version 10.3

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Newest Flash Player Update Breaks Captivate Published Content

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

It appears that the latest Flash Player update (10,1,102,64) is causing much angst in the Captivate community. It seems that if you are using Captivate 5 and included text animation in your projects, the published lessons will not play correctly in the newest Flash Player. You can learn more about the issue here.

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Free eLearning Development Calculator… Quickly Determine Your LOE

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Note: To use the calculator, you will need the free Adobe Reader (version 9 or newer) and the Adobe Flash Player. Since the calculator is Flash-based, it will not work on devices that do not support Adobe Flash (such as the iPad).

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Adobe Captivate: Best Practices for Creating Compliant eLearning

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Note: To access Flash files using a screen reader, users must have Flash Player 9 or later installed. When a screen reader encounters content meant for Flash Player, the screen reader notifies the user with audio, such as "Loading.load done." Tips for Creating 508-compliant Adobe Captivate SWF Files.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen?

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Adobe Captivate: User's Minimum Requirement for Opening PDFs?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

And will they also need the Flash Player? And since the newer Readers also include the Flash Player, your users will not need the Flash Player on their systems to open your Captivate PDFs and enjoy the video content. What is the minimum Adobe Reader version my users will need to open the PDF?

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Adobe Captivate 6: HTML5 At Last!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Currently the most common way to publish a Captivate project is as a Flash SWF, an excellent solution because SWF files can be used by the vast majority of the world's personal computers, browsers and operating systems. According to Adobe, the Flash Player is installed on the vast majority of the word's computers.