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Adobe Captivate 5.5: Lowering the Size of Published SWFs

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Fortunately, adding interactivity to a lesson does not negatively impact the size of the published SWF. Rather, imported assets such as audio, video and images are the main culprits behind SWF bloat. There are some things that you can do while working in Captivate that may lower the size of the published SWF.

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Adobe Captivate 6: Scalable HTML Content

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I was curious what the option would do, so I enabled it and published a SWF. However, with  Scalable HTML content  enabled in my test project, the published SWF always resized to fit my browser window (proportionally), no matter how big or small I made my browser window.   Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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Publishing Adobe Captivate Projects: SWF, HTML5, or Both?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      If you attend our  Adobe Captivate Beginner class , you will learn how to publish projects as SWF (for desktop users) and HTML5 (for mobile users).  In addition, SWFs can be used by the vast majority of the world's desktop computers, laptops, and browsers. SWF and HTML5 versions.

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Articulate ’09: Tips for Resolving Common Issues

Upside Learning

With all its advantages, Articulate does have a few bugs – although the company did recently release a patch for Presenter ’09 that resolves a large number of bugs [view the whole list of resolved issues here ]. If you have some other ways to resolve similar issues, do share them with us. d) Press Tab and preview again.

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Adobe Captivate: Force Re-Publish

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

In legacy versions of Captivate, it could easily take 3-5 minutes to publish a moderately-sized project as a SWF. I have come across an issue where some of my updated slides didn't show the updates in the published content. by Kevin Siegel    One of the wonderful hidden advantages of using Captivate 5 and 5.5

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Adobe Captivate 9 Hot Fix: Update Fixes Several Known Issues

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adobe recently posted a fix for Captivate 9 that, according to Adobe, addresses the following issues in Adobe Captivate 9. Effects are not played fully in SWF, when the effect duration is less than the default effect duration. Effects are not played fully in SWF, when the effect duration is less than the default effect duration.

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Adobe Captivate 6: Best Practices for Creating Compliant eLearning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I was surprised that the Canadian government had not addressed the issue of compliance (compliance is often a requirement in the United States), but I skipped the section as requested. Password protection (If an Adobe Captivate SWF file is password protected, the prompt for a password is read by screen readers).