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By proactively managing font usage and availability, you can avoid the fallback issue and ensure consistent presentation across systems.
Have you ever opened an Adobe Captivate project on another machine, only to find your carefully chosen fonts replaced by Arial?
This happens because Captivate relies on system-installed fonts. If the required font isn’t installed on the new machine, it defaults to Arial.
Here’s how to ensure your fonts stay consistent:
1️⃣ Install Required Fonts: Share and install the fonts on every machine where the project will be edited.
2️⃣ Stick to Standard Fonts: Use widely available fonts like Arial or Verdana to avoid dependency issues.
3️⃣ Publish as HTML5 or Video: Export your project to ensure fonts are rendered as part of the output.
4️⃣ Consider Web Fonts: Use web-safe fonts or integrate Google Fonts for web-based projects.
With these tips, you can ensure your projects look consistent and professional, no matter the machine. Have other Captivate tips to share?
Let’s discuss this in the comments! 🚀
#AdobeCaptivate #eLearning #DesignTips #ProfessionalDevelopment
Have you ever opened an Adobe Captivate project on another machine, only to find your carefully chosen fonts replaced by Arial?
This happens because Captivate relies on system-installed fonts. If the required font isn’t installed on the new machine, it defaults to Arial.
Here’s how to ensure your fonts stay consistent:
1️⃣ Install Required Fonts: Share and install the fonts on every machine where the project will be edited.
2️⃣ Stick to Standard Fonts: Use widely available fonts like Arial or Verdana to avoid dependency issues.
3️⃣ Publish as HTML5 or Video: Export your project to ensure fonts are rendered as part of the output.
4️⃣ Consider Web Fonts: Use web-safe fonts or integrate Google Fonts for web-based projects.
With these tips, you can ensure your projects look consistent and professional, no matter the machine. Have other Captivate tips to share?
Let’s discuss this in the comments! 🚀
#AdobeCaptivate #eLearning #DesignTips #ProfessionalDevelopment
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Why can you specify Adobe Fonts in Adobe Captivate version 12? Is this feature for local preview only?
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Adobe Captivate 12 lets you specify Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) so that your course looks polished in the authoring environment. The fonts do indeed render correctly in the Captivate editor and when you preview locally—because your system has the Adobe Fonts synced through your Creative Cloud account.
But here’s the key: unless the fonts are available through web-embedding (which most Adobe Fonts are), learners won’t necessarily see them once the project is published and hosted online. Captivate doesn’t bundle Adobe Fonts directly into the output files—it assumes the end-user’s browser can load the font via the web. That means:
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Local preview → works fine because your system has the font synced.
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Published online → works only if the font family is one that Adobe allows for web embedding and you’ve published in a way that points to it (usually via Adobe Fonts’ embed codes).
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Offline or LMS without proper embedding → it’ll fall back to system fonts if the learner doesn’t have the font available.
So the short version: yes, you can specify Adobe Fonts in Captivate 12, but they’re not guaranteed to travel with your published project unless you handle embedding. Many people use them mostly for design consistency during authoring, then swap to safe web fonts before publishing.
Hope answered your questions
Thanks, @Sri,S appreciate the explanation.
I’ve been working quite a bit with Captivate 12 and Adobe Learning Manager, and honestly, the whole setup doesn’t feel ready for proper production use yet.
If fonts are meant just for local preview or authoring, that really doesn’t make sense in any real content workflow. No one builds a design system or template for review only to swap fonts later before publishing; that just breaks consistency and adds a lot of unnecessary work.
In a proper workflow, the font you specify in Captivate should look the same for the learner once the course is published to ALM. Right now, that’s not the case. It ends up falling back or changing completely, which really affects the final look and accessibility too.
I really hope future updates of Captivate make the font handling and embedding more reliable for end users, not just authors.
