In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how to put a PDF file such as a job aid or company policy directly into your Adobe Captivate eLearning project for your learners to download or view.
Hi Paul –
First I want to thank you for all the great videos on the tips & tricks of using Captivate more efficiently. One thing I haven’t seen yet though is how to correctly embed a pdf using a button in a MULTI SCO project. I followed your instructions for attaching the pdf as a hyperlink and also using the button method (for the project I’m doing, the web method isn’t appropriate), and I kept the name simply as xxx.pdf – not pointing to anything on my desktop. I then manually added them to the package. But I wasn’t sure WHICH package I was supposed to add them to since it is a multi-sco project. So I added them to the SCO for the particular module in which they are embedded. When I published the whole project, I looked at the ZIP file (of the multi sco package) and there the 3 pdfs were even though I didn’t add them to that level (I only added them to the module in which they are embedded), so I thought since it was done automatically, that that is what was supposed to happen. But when they tested it on the learning management system, they cannot open any of the files! So then I tested it by ONLY adding the files to the final published SCO zip file (NOT to the individual sco in which the pdfs are embedded) and that didn’t work either. Can you help me understand where I am supposed to be putting the pdfs? Which of the scos should they go? And since I just tested all the places I thought they should go, what’s left? Thanks for your help!
I’m not a big fan of the Multi-SCO Packager as I prefer to upload all my modules to my LMS and then have all of them contribute to a single course. This way each elearning project runs on it’s own as intended but contributes to the overall course completion. It’s a little cleaner and eliminates the need to have that funky TOC that the Multi-SCO Packager uses. As far as I know you simply publish each course with the PDF files coming from the library and becoming part of the SCORM package.
I’ve never packaged such a project with the Multi-SCO Packager so I have no idea as to why it might not make the PDF unavailable. Perhaps the URL of the PDF changes when you package it this way. My suggestion would be to upload the PDF to it’s own location on your company network where all users would have access to it. Then simply use that URL when you need to offer it within the course.
it work great and you can too insert the pdf in frame
Thanks for this tip, it’s a technique I use often in our LMS; looking forward to seeing how it works inside captivate.
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