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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)

Working with Text Effects

The Text Effects feature lets you create and apply some sophisticated visual effects to the Text Captions and Smart Shapes containing text. If you are a Photoshop user, you'll be in familiar territory because Captivate's Text Effects feature shares most of its functionalities with the effects of Photoshop.

Follow these steps to experiment with Text Effects:

  1. Return to slide 2 of the Chapter02/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. Double-click the Title placeholder and type Jan as the title text.

  1. Double-click the Text Caption placeholder and type the following text (hitting the Enter key after each line of text):

Nationality : Belgian
Lives in : Brussels
Occupation : Student
Takes the train : Everyday!

  1. Hit the Esc key to leave the text edit mode and leave the Text Caption object selected.
  2. Reduce the height of the Text Caption so that it takes approximately...