When an Adobe Captivate SWF is distributed to clients to be launched locally on the client machine using the browser or standalone Flash player, there are chances of the SWF being launched from an untrusted location. When this happens Alternate Reporting will not be able perform the necessary task. This is because of Flash Player’s Security policy. How does the client identify this? When an Adobe Captivate SWF is locally launched on the client machine from an untrusted location, an […]
A few of the users have observed that the animations which have some audio or flv video embedded in them, when used in Adobe Captivate, face sync issues. The embedded audio starts playing ahead of the actual timing of the animation which was leading to audio going out of sync. Worry no more, here is the solution. Our friend Srinandan, from Adobe Captivate team, has developed a widget to solve this issue. You can download the widget from here. Try […]
Ok some good news!!! the hot fix is ready. Here are the steps for using the hot fix: On Windows: 1. Close Adobe Captivate 5.0 if already running. 2. Go to the captivate installation folder. 3. Find the file CPAnimationUtils.dll and rename it to CPAnimationUtils_old.dll. 4. Download the CPAnimationUtils.zip from here and extract the CPAnimationUtils.dll. 5. Place the extracted CPAnimationUtils.dll in the captivate installation folder. 6. Launch Adobe Captivate 5.0 now. 7. Open the projects which have text animations in […]
There was an update to Flash Player on the 4th of November to version 10.1.102.64, which causes Captivate 5 SWFs with Text animations to either fail to run or show a black screen or show a white screen. We have been able to nail down the root cause for this issue. Meanwhile, couple of workarounds which can be used to overcome the issue are as follows: 1. Remove Text animations in your project and republish the project. You can find […]
