Font Issue Captivate 2019 Update

Hi, Late to the game with updating to Captivate 2019 11.5.0. I’m working with my company’s IT department to get the newest patch, but I don’t know that the patch will fix my issue based on information I could find in other threads in the forum. With this new font thing in the newest version, our company font (that was installed on my laptop locally) is reverting to Tahoma when I open old projects. Except, my intro slide doesn’t convert […]

Word Builder Example

A Word Builder Example

Scalable HTML Content Unchecked (Oh No!)

Scalable HTML Content option unchecked. How can I tell which courses are scalable, without testing?

Arabic fonts don’t connect

I have a project for Arabic that has me kind of crazy.  The Arabic font off the CC site that was free wouldn’t connect, so another one was purchased and that one won’t connect either.  I’m going to have to keep doing these types of projects and I really need to fond a solution in Captivate.  any ideas?

Captivate File Formats

File formats

No built in assets (characters, buttons, templates, themes, nothing at all) on my latest version of captivate

I just completed my specialist certificate last week and while there I realized that my latest version is missing all the great features that are promoted about it, like the quick start projects, cut out characters buttons and so fourth. The trainer said that I need to download them and gave me a site address. I went to the site and it has the quick start projects but none of the built in assets. I believe this is controlled by […]

Embedding New System Fonts in Adobe Captivate 2019

Fonts help set the tone for an e-learning project, but they are rarely a choice made by the e-learning developer or instructional designer. In my experience, most organizations have fonts stipulated within their branding requirements and compliance with the brand is mandatory. Marketing or Communications departments will often supply the font files to support and encourage continued brand compliance. That is how I typically acquire new system fonts. I then have to embed these fonts within an Adobe Captivate Project. This is the process I describe in this article.

Branding QSP slide – Fluid Boxes Project

To brand inserted QSP slides in a Fluid Boxes project you need to be very careful, because the master slide FB setup g-has to be taken into account. Post has a link to a free table, with an overview of master slide names in the provided QSPs at this moment.

Custom Digital Font – Part 4 – The Product

A custom digital character set for your use in projects.

How Can I Share My Captivate Project Without an LMS?

Hello, I’ve been stuck, unable to share my Captivate projects with stakeholders who do not have access to our schools learning management system. Aside from Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, or my own public domain, is there any easy way to share Captivate projects with others?

Captivate 2017 Filmstrip has blank thumbnails

I am relatively new to Captivate, (at least I still feel new after 5 years, because I still cant seem to get a handle on how adobe or captivate templates works) and after downloading several templates and/or projects, I am finding many of them have blank thumbnails in the film strip. It makes it extremely difficult to work with and I am wondering if I am just missing a setting or does everyone get this problem with downloading templates? This […]

Branding inserted QSP-slide – Tips

Alternative to switch to Destination theme, to avoid possible unwanted results. This is a second blog in a series about branding inserted slides with a different theme.