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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

<p>Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book gives you the expertise you need to reinforce your own professional-quality eLearning course modules.</p> <p>The book takes you through the production of three pieces of eLearning content. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects one by one and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be uploaded to your YouTube channel or published as an MP4 video. Finally, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, using Captivate with other applications, and more.</p> <p>This book is an advanced tutorial, containing all the assets required to build its sample projects. Self-exploration is encouraged through extra exercises, experimentation, and external references.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Fluid Boxes

Now that you have learned how to create a responsive project and resize it to the required size, it's time to design the responsive slides. The first step of designing responsive slides in Captivate 2017 is to add the Fluid Boxes.

Fluid Boxes are the containers which lay out your content intelligently as per the defined settings.

Adding Fluid Boxes

Let's take a deep dive into learning how to add Fluid Boxes, change their properties, and further add content to these Fluid Boxes.

  1. If you still have the project open from the last exercise, close it. Then, open the Chapter10/FluidBoxes.cptx file.
  2. Go to Slide 3. You can start adding Fluid Boxes to this blank slide.
  3. On the Toolbar, click FluidBox. It gives...