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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

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

Enabling Uniform Text Scaling

If you have text with different lengths in different Fluid Boxes, you will need to make sure that all the captions scale at the same time:

  1. In the FluidBoxes.cptx file, go to Slide 15.  On this slide, unlike the previous slide, text is added to multiple Fluid Boxes.
  2. Let's preview it to see how the text scales on smaller device sizes. Go to the Toolbar and click Preview | Next 5 Slides to preview the slide. 
  3. In the browser, click the Play icon on the slide.
  4. Then, click the Pause button on the Course Playbar.
  5. Adjust the slider to show how the content will appear on smaller devices.

You will notice that as you move to the smaller device sizes, the text scaling is not consistent, which makes the font size for some of the text larger than the others. Let's see how we can fix this.

  1. In the FluidBoxes.cptx file, go back to Slide 15.  
  2. In the slide Properties inspector...