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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

Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate


Photoshop is one of the oldest and most famous applications from Adobe. It is an amazing image-editing tool aimed at the professional designer. Lots of design companies around the world, use Photoshop as one of their primary tools to develop the look and feel of the projects they work on.

It is not uncommon to have a designer use Photoshop to create the look and feel of a Captivate-powered eLearning project, so the Captivate engineering team has come up with a specific feature that helps us import a Photoshop file in Captivate.

In Photoshop, each piece of the image is stored on a separate layer. At the bottom of the layer stack is the background layer. The other layers are arranged on top of the background in a way that is similar to what is found in the Timeline of Captivate.

The Import from Photoshop feature is able to retain the layers and layer comps of the original Photoshop file during the importation process. If you know Photoshop, you probably...