Accentuated community content in Adobe Captivate help

Adobe Captivate community has been benefitting from great articles, blogs, and videos provided by the experts in the community. We have been integrating community content with Captivate help so that users who visit the help pages get access to such content in the context of the topic they read. As an effort to highlight the community content included in help, we have added some visual treatment to the community references. Here’s an example:

Captivate Hands-on Training: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5 (Part 2)

Topic: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5 Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to create exciting eLearning content and add complex interactivity by using Advanced Actions and Variables.

10 Reasons to upgrade from Adobe Captivate to Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5-the eLearning Dream Team:

The iron is definitely hot when it comes to upgrading your copy of Adobe Captivate to Adobe eLearning Suite. In addition to the discount you get just for upgrading, Adobe is now slashing an additional 200$ US of the overall cost. Each week for the next ten weeks we’ll be posting the top ten reasons to upgrade now. Here’s the first hot reason to make your

HTML5 – Coming Soon!

Always wondered how to publish Adobe Captivate projects to HTML5? “Like” us and be the first to know If you are looking to create HTML5 based content or have created HTML5 based content, we would love to talk with you, please leave us a comment.

Top Issues

Here is a list of top issues in Adobe Captivate 5.0/5.5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2.0/2.5. If you encounter issues other than the ones mentioned here, please report them to wish-captivate@macromedia.com.   Adobe eLearning Suite installation Sl.No Issue Version 1 Adobe eLearning Suite cannot be installed successfully on paths containing upper ASCII or multi-byte characters. 2.5 2 After installation, Adobe eLearning Suite products sometimes crash if the install paths contain ‘;’ or ‘%’ characters. 2.5 Aggregator Sl.No Issue Version 1 […]

Captivate Hands-on Training: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Topic: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5 Date and time: Thursday, Sept 15, 2011 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to create exciting eLearning content and add complex interactivity by using Advanced Actions and Variables. What’s in it for you?

Captivate Hands-on Training: Working with Project Templates and Master Slides in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Topic: Working with Project Templates and Master Slides in Adobe Captivate 5.5 Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to use project templates and master slides to give a consistent look and feel to your projects and templatize the slides you frequently use in Adobe Captivate 5.5 courses. What’s in it for you?

Adobe provides Free Update to Presenter – Now Create State of the Art Flash From within PowerPoint

I’m thrilled to announce today that Adobe is offering owners of Adobe Presenter 7 and Adobe eLearning Suite a completely free update to Adobe Presenter. Adobe Presenter 7.07 is a fairly significant change in the overall Presenter delivery so users will need to uninstall 7 and then install the fresh copy of 7.07. If you haven’t used it before, Adobe Presenter is

Let's Highlight those Interactive Objects!

When creating an eLearning course, it’s a good practice to display content for the learner in bite-size pieces. For this, we usually create interactive screens with a pop-up, click-reveal text, rollover text, rollover audio, tabs, click-display animation, etc. But the fact that the learner might miss out on some hidden content is always our cause of worry. Instructional text comes for rescue here to guide the learner to click/roll-over the object. But the instructional text doesn’t seem to be sufficient […]

Creating Menus and Showing the Visited Links using Advanced Actions

Scenario: You are creating an eLearning course, which spans into multiple modules. You want to tie it all together and have a Menu page from where you would like to access these modules. You also want to enable bookmarking so that a tick mark appears next to the module name, after the learner has viewed the module. Here’s an example: Let’s see

Captivate Training: Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Flash

Topic: Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Flash Date and time: Thursday, Aug 25, 2011 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to instantly update Flash applications used in Adobe Captivate projects, invoke Flash from within Adobe Captivate, and synchronize the files in Adobe Captivate and Flash with a single click. What’s in it for you?

Captivate Training: Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Photoshop

Topic: Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Photoshop Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an exciting session on Photoshop roundtripping. Learn how to instantly update Adobe Photoshop files imported in Adobe Captivate projects, invoke Adobe Photoshop from within Adobe Captivate, and keep the linked files in sync using a single click. What’s in it for you?