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Noticed a lack of unity between Captivate and the Creative Cloud Suite and I think it’s time captivate got the CC Suite overhaul.
Captivate Folks,
I’ve been working with Adobe products (Acrobat DC, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Indesign, Premier, Etc.) for a couple years now as a hobbyist. I’ve been a technical trainer for a little over 5 years and my work recently offered to buy me a copy of Captivate. I was pretty excited as I was already familiar with the Adobe CC style interfaces and I’ve been impressed with the options available in those product sets. So I was a bit shocked when I opened Captivate to find that the UI was a bit dated and how difficult it was to use even the most basic functions and the lack of basic usability and functionality.
Maybe I am new and I just don’t know what I’m talking about. But I would expect things, like working in a text box and scrolling over the edge anchors, would allow you to resize the box. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, you have to click off the text box, then click on it again, then you can select the text box anchors to resize it. Also small but important details like making a bullet point a different color than the copy text. Looking at the various shapes available for on-screen drawing also leaves me lack in the desired variability.
Trying to think of solutions for these issues is important as just complaining about something puts the burden of resolution on others. With that, I think this should be wrapped into the Creative Cloud Suite and get a UI overhaul to match the new slick design and options of CC.
Captivate Folks,
I’ve been working with Adobe products (Acrobat DC, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Indesign, Premier, Etc.) for a couple years now as a hobbyist. I’ve been a technical trainer for a little over 5 years and my work recently offered to buy me a copy of Captivate. I was pretty excited as I was already familiar with the Adobe CC style interfaces and I’ve been impressed with the options available in those product sets. So I was a bit shocked when I opened Captivate to find that the UI was a bit dated and how difficult it was to use even the most basic functions and the lack of basic usability and functionality.
Maybe I am new and I just don’t know what I’m talking about. But I would expect things, like working in a text box and scrolling over the edge anchors, would allow you to resize the box. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, you have to click off the text box, then click on it again, then you can select the text box anchors to resize it. Also small but important details like making a bullet point a different color than the copy text. Looking at the various shapes available for on-screen drawing also leaves me lack in the desired variability.
Trying to think of solutions for these issues is important as just complaining about something puts the burden of resolution on others. With that, I think this should be wrapped into the Creative Cloud Suite and get a UI overhaul to match the new slick design and options of CC.
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I think you mean what I call ‘minimize panels to an icon’. If yes please log a feature request!!!
I’d like to see snapable sidebars as well. Imagine if we could have simple small icon sidebars we could click on to open the options menu instead of having them pinned all around the creative space.
Smiling, becasue that awful Big Button Bar is annoying you as much as me! UI in CP7 was the best, with the exception that the Properties panel was growing too big. I loved the floating small vertical toolbar, the possibility to minimize panels to an icon (similar to CC apps).
I don’t understand the complaint about the text container resizing: I always use shapes, and resize often with shortcut keys, find it even easier than in AI. Photoshop roundtripping is great in CP. CP used to be bitmap only, now at least we can use SVG which I create with AI. Totally agree about the raw video demo file which cannot be opened in Premiere Pro, but only very few CP-users seem to use video demo at all (concurrent Camtasia). Software simulations in CP are slide-based, which has a lot of advantages, and I cannot see why this would have to be imported in Premiere Pro at all.
In the first place I wish for more customisability in Captivate, more like in CP7.
