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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

Working with Borders

Borders are the second main element of a Captivate Skin. As discussed in the previous section, Customizing the Playback Controls bar, adding a Playback Controls bar automatically adds a corresponding bottom border so that the Playback Controls do not overlap with the slide elements.

Please note that Borders are not supported in the HTML5 published output. Also, for responsive projects, the Borders option is disabled.

In the following exercise, you will further experiment with Borders and discover some more of their properties:

  1. While still in the Chapter15/encoderSim_800.cptx file, use the Project | Skin Editor menu item to return to the Skin Editor floating pane.
  2. Click the Borders icon below the Skin drop-down list.
  3. Select the Show Borders checkbox to turn borders back on.

In the Borders tab of the Skin Editor floating pane, note that the Bottom Border is currently turned on, as shown in the following screenshot:

The bottom border is currently situated below the...