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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

Formatting a Text Caption

You will now examine some of the formatting capabilities of the Text Caption object. To do so, make sure that the Text Caption you just inserted is selected before performing the following steps:

  1. If necessary, open the Properties inspector by clicking the Properties icon on the toolbar.
  2. In the Style tab of the Properties inspector, open the Caption Type drop-down list and choose Adobe Green.
  3. Directly under the Caption Type drop-down list, experiment with the five Callout Type options.
  4. Open the Caption Type drop-down list again and choose the Transparent item at the top of the list.
  5. Experiment with the other properties. For example, change the color of the text, the font family, or the size.
  6. When you are done, click the small menu icon just above the Style Name drop-down list and choose Reset Style, as shown in the following screenshot:

Your last action resets the Text Caption to its default formatting. In Chapter 6, Crafting the Graphical Experience...