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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects 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 published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Using web safe fonts

The first solution is to use fonts that are known to be available on most, if not all, computers around the world, regardless of the system (Windows, Mac, or Linux) or version used by the learner. Using one of these fonts is therefore considered safe, hence the name Web Safe Fonts. Let's discover the list of Web Safe fonts available in Captivate using the following steps:

  1. Make sure you are in the Chapter06/styles.cptx file.
  2. Use the Filmstrip to go to slide 2 of the project.
  3. Select one of the Text Caption placeholders.
  4. Open the Fonts drop-down menu situated in the Character section on the Style tab of the Properties inspector.

Notice that the list of available fonts is divided into categories. One of these categories is Web Safe Fonts and another one is System Fonts, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you use one of the fonts listed under the Web Safe Fonts category, you are certain that the font used to render text on the learner's computer...