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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

Resizing and moving Text Captions

In Captivate, resizing and moving an object is very easy and can be done in two different ways, namely, using the white handles, or using the Options tab of the Properties inspector:

  1. While still on the second slide of your project, use the resize handles to adjust the Text Caption so that the text you just typed fits into a single line.
  2. Open the Options tab of the Properties inspector.

The Options tab contains properties that control the size and position of the selected object. W indicates the width of the object, while H stands for the height. Both dimensions are expressed in pixels:

  1. On the stage, use the white handles to make the Text Caption a bit bigger.
  2. Take another look at the Properties inspector. The height and width fields of the Options tab reflect the new size of the object.

If you want to give your objects a specific size, you can enter the height and width in the Properties inspector directly. If the Constrain proportions checkbox is...