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.

How to Avoid redundant label editing?

Hi! Our company projects will consist of  the  software simulations of “Show Me”, “Try It” and “Test Me” modes. In other words,  Demo, Assessment and Training.  When I’ve created tests, the labels that are created don’t appear to be linked.  So, if I change a label’s, background, font, and text, I have to change all of the versions one at a time.  Is there a way to link these, so I don’t have to do this?  Thanks!

Flash to HTML5 Conversion: In-house vs Outsourcing

Flash to HTML5 conversion has to be mandatorily done by 2020 for existing Flash content. The pros and cons of converting in-house vs outsourcing are discussed here.

Source and Destination Theme (QSP-slides)

Warning to be careful with choosing ‘Destination’ theme after insertion of a (QSP) slide. Short overview of what can cause frustrations.

E-learning reacts slowly on action buttons

Dear all, I have some problems with many of my e-learning projects: Everything works fine in preview, but after publishing to html the e-learning seems to react only slowly on action buttons (especially “go to next slide” or “jump to slide”). I’ve  created my own navigation bar at the bottom and every button is displayed right at the beginning.  When I play the e-learning in explorer or chrome (both the same issue) I click the “next” button and only after some seconds I get to […]

Typography in Captivate

How are fonts used in Captivate, what is difference between Theme fonts, Websafe fonts, Adobe fonts and System fonts. What is static/dynamic text? Recommendations for font use in responsive and non-responsive projects.

Custom Digital Font – Part 3 – Making the Font

Making a custom font to use in Captivate.

Publishing Captivate in other languages for screen readers (JAWS)

Publishing Captivate in other languages for screen readers (JAWS)