Re: Adobe Captivate Help | Insert audio
Select the Smart Shape and set it to Act as Button. In the Properties tab > Options, select Success caption. When the caption appears on stage select it and go to its Properties > Audio...
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I am just starting with Captivate -- reading manual, watching tutorials... pulling my hair out... So when I click "File - Preview" and "this slide" or "from this slide," it shows up with my caption...
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Hello! Thank you for posting on forums. To add an audio to Smart shape, click box or button or such other elements. Please try following steps Select the object and then goto properties pane, scroll...
View ArticleRe: "Preview" looks bizarre
Hello, welcome, First tip: mention the version you are using. I suspect that it is 6 or earlier. At that moment the default slide quality was Low, and that could be the reason for your problems....
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Thanks for the replies! Here's the problem though -- when I preview, the sound goes off immediately and not as a result of clicking the button. (On edit: Then again, the whole preview seems screwed up...
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Did you really attach it to the Success Caption and not to the shape itself? Audio will play when the object it is attached to gets visible. Success caption is only visible when you click...
View ArticleRe: Crawling Text - like movie credits
Do the same, using cross hairs because I don't like messing up in the XML. I'm a bit frustrated because the shared actions cannot manage custom effects, and that is what you mostly need when applying...
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Re: "Preview" looks bizarre
Thanks for your reply, Lilybiri. My version is 7.0.0.118. I think "autoplay" was the issue. I now have audio attached elsewhere though from experimenting, so I'll start over and see. I'm going to...
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Re: Crawling Text - like movie credits
Okay folks, putting on my forum mod hat here and asking one of you to exemplify "using cross hairs" so that those that may be unfamiliar with this will have a better understanding of what you are...
View ArticleRe: "Preview" looks bizarre
Normally slide quality should be Optimized then, can you check? Which style did you use for those text captions? Transparent?
View ArticleAdding interactive elements to question slides ...
Hello, I would like to add links to outside documents (either inside or outside of the project) from the question slides. Is this possible? Maybe Lieve can help me with this one : ) I have...
View ArticleRe: Crawling Text - like movie credits
I create a cross hair with two line shapes, one vertical and one horizontal. And then position it exactly using the X/Y coordinates in the Transform accordion. The small circles at the start and the...
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Bizarre, should have been Optimized by default, so did you change it?
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Re: "Preview" looks bizarre
No -- I didn't even realize it was there! I'm still at the basic basic baby beginning.
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Did you look at this one:http://blog.lilybiri.com/want-a-button-on-question-slide-in-captivate No examples of links there, but if there is a possibility it coudl be using shape buttons. You can also...
View ArticleRe: Crawling Text - like movie credits
Exactly how I do it. Or, I setup my own grid if I have multiple objects, like in a complex drag and drop scenario. I move the x/y crosshairs off the visible stage area in case I need it again, then...
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Use a template, that has some custom things like that (and advanced actions of course) And I suppose you would also be happy to have drawing rulers and the possiblity to drag custom guides out of them...
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I didnt think of that. Great! Thank you!
View ArticleError using NeoSpeech
I'm not able to use a different voice than Microsoft Sam. I'm using Captivate 7 in a Windows XP Proffesional of 64 bits.
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