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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

Formatting the Buttons

In this section, you will use the Properties inspector to explore some of the properties available on the Button object using the following steps:

  1. Still on slide 3 of the Chapter05/takeTheTrain.cptx file, make sure the new button is selected.
  2. Return to the Style tab of the Properties inspector and open the Text Button drop-down menu.

This drop-down menu lists the three button types available in Captivate:

  • Text Button: This is the default. It is a simple button whose text can be customized in the Caption field of the Properties inspector.
  • Transparent Button: This is a sensitive area that serves as a button. The Transparent button may serve many purposes and has an Opacity slider to change the amount of transparency. It is typically added on top of a background picture.
  • Image Button: This is an image (actually a set of three images) that acts as a button. Captivate provides predesigned image buttons. But you can also create your own buttons in an image-editing...