Upside Learning

MARCH 15, 2010

Though some Flash platforms tools like the Flex SDK are freely available from Adobe, for animation and design you still need to depend on Adobe’s Creative Suite of tools – which is not free. The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. What’s Adobe’s contribution?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 4, 2014

    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. I fixed the error and exited Captivate, at which point the project was republished and the SWF contained in FrameMaker automatically updated.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 20, 2012

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. As an alternative to publishing a SWF, you can publish as HTML5.

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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. Here we just wrote about the Adobe Captivate CS5 which is the part of recently released Adobe eLearning Suite 2. However, such development would not be considered as rapid authoring.

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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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Upside Learning

APRIL 7, 2009

Adobe’s CS4 suite is the second major release since Adobe acquired Macromedia. The new Adobe CS4 suite has some new exciting and time-saving features in all its products. Flash CS4 allows us to finally publish SWF files for Flash Player 10 - the latest version of Flash Player.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 14, 2013

If the learner is going to use a standard Windows PC or Macintosh computer, SWF output is fine. From within the Adobe Captivate Demo dialog box, use the Browse button to the right of Multimedia Name and open the SWF; use the Browse button to the right of HTML5 Output and open the HTML5 start page. Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The embedded videos are played back from within SWF, so you can create your own components to control the video playback. The bundled components in Flash can be skinned to suite your own design specifications. Playing back videos. There are also many FLV playback components available in market – either freely or paid.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Finally, you will also learn how to publish the finished eLearning content as both SWF and PDF. Adobe Presenter Adobe''s Technical Communication Suite eLearning mLearning Online Training Quizzes Technical Communications' More information.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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. If you decide to publish a SWF, the learner will use a web browser to access the lesson. Just remember that neither SWF nor HTML5 are good standalone options.

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Hurix Digital

JUNE 7, 2019

Following the announcement by Adobe, major browsers including Google and Microsoft followed suit and announced that they would disable the plug-in in their browsers by early next year, thus, bringing down the curtains on Flash. So, what went wrong with Flash? Related: 7 Reasons Why You Should Revamp Your Old eLearning Courses.

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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

JULY 12, 2013

Finally, you’ll learn to publish your project in SWF and HTML5 formats so that your content can be uploaded to a web server for consumption on virtually any device, including the iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices. If you prefer a digital version of the book that you can download immediately, you have three options: The Kindle.

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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

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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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 26, 2013

In the Multimedia Name field, open the swf you published from Captivate. Adobe''s Technical Communication Suite Help Authoring Help Systems RoboHelp Technical Communications Technology training' Publish your Captivate demo as both Flash and HTML5. Create or open a RoboHelp project. Open the topic where you want to add the demo.

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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

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? The bottom line is that you have choices. lots of choices.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 10, 2013

For example, if you select the Enable Accessibility option and you have filled in the project name and project description text boxes in Project preferences, a screen reader will read the name and description when the Adobe Captivate SWF file is played. Tips for Creating 508-compliant Adobe Captivate SWF Files.

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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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mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 12, 2011

AS3) is here, and this is a free update to anyone who owns Adobe Presenter 7, or any version of our Adobe eLearning Suite. Using the Insert SWF button , you can supplement your Presenter projects with software demonstrations and interactive simulations created with Adobe Captivate 5 and 5.5. As I wrote above, Adobe Presenter 7.0.7

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Here's how you can quickly incorporate Captivate content within a RoboHelp topic: Using Adobe Captivate, create and publish a Captivate video as a SWF. Navigate to the location of your Captivate published SWF and open it. Tags: Adobe's Technical Communication Suite eLearning RoboHelp. No worries. How cool is that?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

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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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I pointed out that HTML5 is an alternative publishing format to a SWF. Unlike SWFs, projects published as HTML5 will not only play on the Apple  iPad, iPhone and the iPod, but the lessons will retain any interactivity that you added to the slides (such as click boxes and buttons).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 21, 2013

In the SWF Size and Quality area, I set the quality to Medium. Adobe''s Technical Communication Suite Captivate eLearning mLearning Technical Communications Technology training' IconLogic offers multiple live, online Adobe Captivate 6 classes each month including Introduction to Adobe Captivate and Advanced Adobe Captivate.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 15, 2011

Various types of video such as AVI, MPG and SWF are supported. On the output side, Elicitus allows you to choose from many form factors to suit the needs to diverse screens such as iPad, smart phones, laptops and so forth. Users can easily import existing PowerPoint® presentations directly into Elicitus with great accuracy.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 1, 2012

For example, if you select the 508 Compliance and you have filled in the project name and project description text boxes in Project preferences, a screen reader will read the name and description when the Adobe Captivate SWF file is played. Tips for Creating 508-compliant Adobe Captivate SWF Files. Slide accessibility text.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 23, 2009

Adobe eLearning suite is a complete toolbox for authoring rich learning content and you won’t need any additional software to meet your eLearning authoring needs. In my previous post I discussed how you can reuse your old Articulate content when you migrate to the eLearning Suite. Download this swf file.

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Steve Howard

JANUARY 20, 2009

Adobe , Captivate , ELS , eLearning Suite , Device Central. Adobe has released the eagerly-awaited eLearning Suite. Offering seven innovative applications in one complete, integrated package, Adobe eLearning Suite combines full new versions of: Adobe Captivate® 4 Go beyond screen capture to author rich eLearning experiences.

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eLearning Brothers

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Learn more about the iSpring Suite program here. The following instructions are applicable for iSpring Pro, iSpring Presenter, and iSpring Suite. iSpring enables you to use not only images as watermarks, but also SWF files. eLearning iSpring Powerpoint Tips Products/Reviews Resources iSpring Suite'

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

For example, if you select the 508 Compliance and you have filled in the project name and project description text boxes in Project preferences, a screen reader will read the name and description when the Adobe Captivate SWF file is played. Tips for Creating 508-compliant Adobe Captivate SWF Files. Slide accessibility text.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. I’m really excited to share with you that we have HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5 out on Adobe Labs. Here’s the [.].

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LearnUpon

JANUARY 23, 2018

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. This output format does have one major drawback.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 6, 2011

content suited for mobile delivery? My first thought about Swiffy was that it would solve a LOT of the problems I hear with SWF content not playing on Apple devices like the iPad. I tried Swiffy on some of my Captivate-published SWFs and I'm sorry to report that none of them converted using the Swiffy beta. Do you have.

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42 Design Square

MAY 30, 2019

Note that the SWF published files won’t be of much reuse when repurposing. If the trade off suits you, go ahead and ask your vendor a quote keeping in mind the re-usability of available resources. Collate all previous versions of storyboards and audio recording scripts.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

Swiffy converts SWF files to HTML5. Apart from supporting many common SWF features such as vector graphics, embedded fonts, images and timeline animation, it also converts basic ActionScript 2.0 Google Swiffy. It allows Flash authors to make their animations available on modern browsers without the need for a plug-in.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 13, 2012

In legacy versions of Captivate, it could easily take 3-5 minutes to publish a moderately-sized project as a SWF. by Kevin Siegel    One of the wonderful hidden advantages of using Captivate 5 and 5.5 over older versions of the program is the overall speed of the publishing process.

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