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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

Working with System Fonts

The second category of fonts available in the Properties inspector is System Fonts. The System Fonts category is a list of all of the fonts that are installed on your computer not in the Web Safe fonts category. Using these fonts when developing a website (and remember that your Captivate courses are exported as mini-websites) is risky, because there is no guarantee that the fonts that are available on your computer are also available on the computer that's used to view your content.

When using a System Font, Captivate exports the Text Captions and Smart Shapes with text as images. This is the only way to make sure your text content is rendered exactly as you designed it.

When creating a Responsive Project, text is never exported as images because it is difficult to make an image truly responsive. This stresses the danger of System Fonts even more. When developing eLearning content, you definitely don't want to use System Fonts. You will learn more...