User manual MACROMEDIA CAPTIVATE 2-USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE

[. . . ] Adobe Captivate 2 ® TM Using Adobe Captivate © 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Using Adobe® CaptivateTM If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end user agreement, this guide, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. Except as permitted by any such license, no part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Please note that the content in this guide is protected under copyright law even if it is not distributed with software that includes an end user license agreement. [. . . ] Adding slides to a project Adobe Captivate offers a wide variety of options for adding slides to a project, including recording, importing, and copying. You can add different types of slides such as blank, image, quiz, or animation. Tip: Press Ctrl+Shift+G and specify a slide number in the Go to Slide dialog box to jump directly to the specified slide. Recording additional slides for a project There may be cases in which you record an Adobe Captivate project and begin working at the slide level, only to realize that you need to record a few more slides. In this case, you probably don't want to re-record the entire project just a few actions. Adobe Captivate allows you to do this by recording new slides and inserting the slides in an existing project. 149 To record new slides: 1. Open the Adobe Captivate project in which you want to record and insert new slides. You can add new slides to the end of the project, or click a slide in the list and add new slides after the selected slide. 4. For example, if you want to record an application that is open, click the pop-up menu next to Optionally, select a window you'd like to record and choose the application. You can also click Options and set numerous recording options. Note: You can position the capture area anywhere on your screen. You cannot, however, resize the capture area because it is set to the same size as the project to which you are adding the slides. 6. When you are finished recording, press End (or other key combination you have designated) on the keyboard to stop recording. The newly recorded slides are inserted into your project in the specified location. Note: You can also import slides from other Adobe Captivate projects or PowerPoint files. Importing slides Adobe Captivate allows you to import slides from one Adobe Captivate project into another. This can save you valuable development time. To import slides from one Adobe Captivate project into another: 1. Open the Adobe Captivate project to which you want to add existing slides. From the File menu, select Import/Export > Import Slides/Objects from other Adobe Captivate projects. 3. Select the project that contains the slides to import and click Open. The Import Project dialog box appears. 4. In Import, click the pop-up menu and select Slide and objects or Slide only. Use the slider bar, left arrow, and right arrow to navigate through all the slides in the project. When you are done, click OK. The slides are added to the open project. 6. Delete any slides that are not required. 150 Chapter 10: Slides Copying and pasting slides You can copy and paste slides in Storyboard view or Edit view (with the Filmstrip enabled). Tip: You can select multiple slides by pressing Shift or Ctrl on the keyboard while clicking on the desired slides. To select all slides, press Ctrl+A or from the Edit menu, choose Select All Slides. Right-click the slide directly before the location where the new slide should appear. (For example, if you want to paste the copied slide in as Slide 6 of your project, click on the slide currently labeled Slide 5. ) 3. [. . . ] This DLL, which was manually copied to the Captivate installation folder, is not removed when Adobe Captivate 2 is installed. If you encounter an error message while exporting the Adobe Captivate project to Flash, locate the DLL, move it to another folder, and copy RDMFISTUB8. dll from Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2\ to the same location. · After exporting Adobe Captivate output to Flash, the required files are missing. You should first save the project in Adobe Captivate, and preview or publish the project before exporting the project to Flash. This ensures that all the files are exported. Troubleshooting JavaScript that does not appear JavaScript does not appear while previewing Adobe Captivate output. If the Execute JavaScript option is selected in the Project end options of the Project Preferences dialog box, Adobe Captivate may not display an error message when the JavaScript is previewed. [. . . ]