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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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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 fonts

In this section, you will learn how to properly use fonts in Adobe Captivate. This may sound a bit surprising. After all, when an object is selected, there is a Font property in the Properties inspector that works the exact same way as in most applications you commonly use. Just open the Fonts dropdown and pick the Font you want to use. This is very simple. But there is one thing you should keep in mind.

When working with Adobe Captivate, the last step of the process is to publish your work in Flash or in HTML5. When publishing in HTML5, your course is exported as a self-contained mini website that is viewed in a web browser by the learner. Well, here is the thing: on the internet, a website uses the fonts installed on the client machine to render text. This means that if you use a font in Captivate when designing your course, that very same font must be installed...