Some of you might have noticed that when you record narration in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 via SlideShow > Record SlideShow > Start Recording from Beginning and import this PPTX in Adobe Captivate, the slide narration is not available in project’s library. This was happening due to a small bug in PowerPoint 2010 which affected the file when Adobe Captivate attempted to convert PPTX to PPT. The issue has been fixed by Microsoft Team and the fix is available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553916 […]
Sometimes Captivate fails to open a project file (.cptx). There could be multiple reasons for such an issue. One such reason could be attributed to some corrupt data structure owing to loss of data. To prevent loss of data, enable project backup in Captivate through Preferences (Edit (on Windows)/Adobe Captivate (on Mac) > Preferences > Global > General Settings > Generate Project Backup). This will create a .bak file for your project (from second save onwards), which will contain the previously saved […]
Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to boost productivity. While most of the keyboard shortcuts are listed besides the menu items in Cp5, there are few which are hidden underneath. Here is a list of some of those shortcuts Editing shortcuts Shortcut key Action Ctrl + I (Win), Command + I (Mac) Left indent selected items Shift + Ctrl + I (Win), Shift + Command + I (Mac) Right indent selected items Ctrl + – (Win), Command + – […]
It is very common to have many assets or resources, for example, audios, videos, SWFs, and images in Captivate projects. While such resources enhance your projects and make them effective, they also introduce more disk I/O. Because of this additional disk I/O, the performance of Captivate may get affected and even simple operations like opening and saving projects may take longer time. ‘Project Cache’ in Adobe Captivate 5 is an attempt to address this performance issue by reducing the disk […]
