August 17, 2020
Adobe captivate struggles
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August 17, 2020
Adobe captivate struggles
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Hi, I hope that I am at the right place. I am new to Adobe Captivate.

Where can I get advanced training? I purchased a course on Udemy, that gave me the basics of the layout. I am interested in the tricks of the trades, workflows, best practices, master slides, themes, project approaches etc.

Here are a few things I really battle with the last two weeks through trial error, youtube videos etc.

My theme default does not work, I right-click set as default nothing happens. When I then import the theme it only changes some features. As an example it will change the note style but not the colour. The font size but not font type. I need this set-up as we need to capture 300 simulations and will help cut down on editing if themes/templates can be set up according to company branding upfront with there preferred colours and look and feel.

When I copy slides from one project to another the feature break, like a next button will disappear or change its properties etc. Sometimes I have to build a slide in one project and want to use it in another project but then it does not want to copy or like mentioned some feature will copy across but not everything. I cleared the cache and restarted the computer and then seemed to work for a short while.

I have captured simulations at screen resolution 1024 x 768, and when I preview on my laptop that simulation bottom half gets cut off. I cant see the next button at the bottom as an example. When I change my laptop screen resolution back to 1090 x 1080 I can see it. I thought the whole idea of capturing at 1024 x 768 is for those users that do not have big screens?

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2021-11-30 05:10:27
2021-11-30 05:10:27

Such a great and helpful community here!

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2020-08-24 08:35:39
2020-08-24 08:35:39

Thanks Lieve, yes i guess i was impatient. I only saw your responsses now. I never got a notification to show that my blog/question got approved or that anyone commented. I was about to copy paste my questions to facebook 🙂

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2020-08-24 10:26:09
2020-08-24 10:26:09
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I often talked to the Adobe people who manage this community about that problem. To me that means that about 80% of the questions which I answer never are revisited by the original poster because they are not notified. Giving up…seems to be impossible. You need to subscribe to notifications, which is not intuitive.

Moreover I am so stupid to answer questions if that is possible, but it seems more and more a waste of time. In the normal Adobe forums people get automatically a notification if their questions are answered. Although there are issues there as well, since they switched to a new platform. It is not easy to find the answer in long threads. Here threads are never very long.. because few people look at the answers. Reason why starting up a real discussion, which would be interesting, never is successful.

Forgot to tell: I do get notifications in my mailbox. However sometimes they end up in the wrong folder for an unknown reason. The links in the mails are not functional, end up with ‘Bad Request’ in Chrome. I have to find the posts manually. Now you know how crazy I am about Captivate.

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2020-08-17 18:02:56
2020-08-17 18:02:56

Thanks for the answers!

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2020-08-17 15:33:29
2020-08-17 15:33:29

Will try here to give you some answers to your questions.

Simulations are bit special. You have to set up Recording Defaults in the Preferences. It is a bit confusing, because you would expect them in the Object Style Manager.  The default ‘text container’ (where you get the feedback messages) is a ‘caption’, not a shape as is the default for all other projects. That part of the Preferences is also a component of the Theme. I wrote once a blog, meant to be a start for a sequence of blogs, but since it didn’t get much views I abandoned that project. Here is the link:

https://elearning.adobe.com/2019/11/software-simulations-1-preparation/

Setting a default theme works, but not for an existing project.

In version 11.5 you can combine more than one theme in a project, but I do not really recommend it. A theme consists of Theme fonts (there you should switch the font), Theme Colors palette, Object Styles, Master slides, Skin and (as I told before) Recording Defaults.

 

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2020-08-17 08:01:30
2020-08-17 08:01:30

I understand your impatience, but you have posted an identical question before. Moderation here can take a while, and that is not good if you are in a hurry. For quicker answers you could try the Adobe forums.

BTW I offered an answer in the first thread:

https://elearning.adobe.com/2020/08/struggling-with-adobe-captivate/

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