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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is the industry-leading solution for authoring E-learning content. With adobe Captivate one can capture the on-screen action, enhance e-Learning projects, insert SCORM and AICC-compliant quizzes and then, publish your work in various formats for easy deployment on virtually any desktop and mobile device. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 is a comprehensive guide to creating SCORM-compliant demonstrations, simulations and quizzes with Adobe Captivate. The sample projects demonstrate each and every feature of Adobe Captivate giving you the expertise you need to create and deploy your own professionalquality e-learning courses. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 will guide you through the creation of three e-learning projects including a demonstration, a simulation and a SCORM-compliant quiz. The first part of the book will drive you through the main three steps of the Captivate production process. In the first step, we will use the powerful capture engine of Captivate to generate the needed slides and screenshots. In the second step, we will enhance our slides and screenshots using the objects provided by Captivate. These objects include animations, interactions, videos and more. In the third step, we will make our project available to the outside world by publishing it in various formats including Adobe Flash PDF, video, and even HTML 5. The second part of the book will focus on the advanced tools of Captivate. These tools include the questions slides that make up a quiz, SCORM and AICC compliance, localization of your e-Learning content and widgets among others. In the last chapter, you we will unleash the true power of Captivate by using the variables and the advanced actions to create a unique e-Learning experience.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 6
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Working with the Object Style manager


So far, we have used the icons of the Properties panel to apply and manage the styles. These icons give us a quick and easy access to the main styling features of Captivate. But behind the scenes, a much more sophisticated engine is at work!

This engine is the Object Style Manager. The icons of the Properties panel are just a remote control to the actual Object Style Manager. Everything these icons made possible is also possible through the Object Style Manager itself, but the Object Style Manager has much more to offer.

Exporting a style

One of the extra features offered by the Object Style manager is the ability to export styles. Make sure you are still in the encoderDemo_800.cptx project. Perform the following steps to export a style:

  1. 1. Use the Edit | Object Style Manger menu to open the Object Style Manager window, as shown in the following screenshot:

    The left-hand side of the Object Style Manager (1) contains a list of all the objects of Captivate...