Mastering Adobe Captivate 6电子书

Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

Table of Contents

Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Captivate

The three editions of Captivate

The Captivate production process at a glance

Touring the Captivate interface

A first look at the Captivate interface

Working with panels

Adding and removing panels

Moving panels around

Creating a custom workspace

Exploring the sample applications

Experiencing the Encoder Demonstration

Experiencing the Encoder Simulation

Experiencing the Driving in Belgium sample application

Experiencing the Encoder Video Demo

Discussing the sample apps scenario

Summary

Meet the Community

Dr Allen Partridge

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

2. Capturing the Slides

Choosing the right resolution for the project

What exactly the problem is

Resizing the project after the initial shooting

Downsizing the application during the shooting

Using the Panning feature of Captivate

Using the new Scalable HTML content feature

Conclusion

Shooting the first movie

Preparing the application to shoot

Rehearsing the scenario

Shooting the movie

[Mac users only] — Enable access to assistive devices

Preparing Captivate to shoot

And... Action!

Previewing the rushes

Exploring the recording preferences

Shooting the other versions of the project

The Full Motion Recording

The inner working of the Captivate capture engine

The Video Demo

Automatic and Manual Panning

Rescaling a project

Summary

Meet the Community

Anita Horsley

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

3. Working with Standard Objects

Preparing your work

Working with the Properties panel

Exploring the basic objects

The Text Caption object

Modifying the content of a Text Caption

Creating new Text Captions

Formatting a Text Caption

Resizing and moving Text Captions

Changing the Callout and the Caption type

Character and paragraph formatting

Working with Text Effects

The Highlight Box object

Working with the Mouse

Understanding the Mouse movements

Formatting the Mouse object

Working with images

Using the image editing tools

Inserting a picture slide

Extra credit: working with Characters

Working with Smart Shapes

Formatting a Smart Shape

Using the Align toolbar

Working with styles

Managing styles with the Properties panel

Resetting a style

Creating new styles

Modifying a style

Applying styles automatically

Extra credit

Working with the Object Style manager

Exporting a style

Importing a style

Creating a style in the Object Style Manager

Extra credit

Working with the Timeline

Using the Timeline to select objects

Hiding and locking objects with the Timeline

Using the Timeline to change the stacking order of the objects

Use the Timeline to set the timing of the objects.

Extra credit

Summary

Meet the Community

RJ Jacquez

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

4. Working with Animations and Interactive Objects

Preparing our work

Discovering the animated objects

Using the Text Animation

Converting a typing object into a Text Animation

Extra credit

Inserting external animations in the project

Working with the Zoom Area

Inserting a video file

Adding effects to objects

Combining effects

Extra credit

Finishing touches

Working with Buttons

Discovering the Rollover objects

Working with Rollover Captions

Working with Rollover Smart Shapes

Writing text into a Smart Shape

Working with Rollover Smart Shapes

Using the Align toolbar to adjust the size and the position of objects

Working with Rollover Images

Working with Rollover Slidelets

Inserting and formatting a Rollover Slidelet

Inserting objects in a Rollover Slidelet

Working with the Library

Reusing library items

Importing objects from another library

Deleting unused assets from the library

Creating a Simulation

Hiding the mouse

Using Find and Replace

Working with Click Boxes

Working with Text Entry Boxes

Fine tuning the Simulation

Branching with Click Boxes

Objects and animations in Video Demo projects

Interactivity in Video Demo projects

Standard objects in Video Demo projects

Animations in Video Demo projects

Using Pan and Zoom

Adding Transitions in Video Demos

Summary

Meet the Community

Dr Pooja Jaisingh

Bio

Contact info

My personal note

5. Working with Audio

Preparing our work

Adding audio to objects

Extra credit

Adding background music to the entire project

Adding audio to the slides

Recording narration with Captivate

Setting up the sound system

Recording the narration

Importing an external sound clip

Editing a sound clip in Captivate

Extra credit

Using Text-to-Speech to generate narration

Installing the Captivate Speech Agents

Working with the Slide Notes panel

Converting text to speech

Using the Speech Management window

Adding Closed Captions to the slides

Viewing the Closed Captions

Closed Captioning a video file

Extra credit

Summary

Meet the Community

Lieve Weymeis

Bio

Contact info

My personal note

6. Final Changes and Publishing

Preparing our work

Final Changes

Checking the spelling

Start and End preferences

Project metadata and accessibility

Other project preferences

Exporting the project preferences

Working with the Skin Editor

Customizing the Playback Controls

Working with Borders

Moving the Closed Captions outside of the slide

Adding a Table of Contents

Applying the same Skin to another project

Extra credit

Publishing

Publishing to Flash

Scalable HTML content

Publishing to HTML5

Using the HTML5 Tracker

Publishing the project in HTML5

Publishing to PDF

Publishing as a standalone application

Publishing as a video file

Publishing to YouTube

Publishing a Video Demo project

Publishing to Word

Extra credit

Other publishing options

Extra credit

Summary

Meet the Community

Jim Leichliter

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

7. Working with Quizzes

Preparing our work

Introducing the Quiz

Creating Question Slides

The Multiple Choice question

The Short Answer question

Adding the remaining Question Slides

The Matching Question

The True/False question

The Fill-In-The-Blank question

The Hotspot question

The Sequence question

Creating surveys with Likert questions

Previewing the Quiz

Creating a Pretest

The Quiz Preferences

Setting the passing score of a Quiz

Creating Question Pools

Creating a Question Pool

Inserting questions in a Question Pool

Inserting Random Question Slides in the main project

Reporting scores to an LMS

SCORM and AICC

Enabling reporting in Captivate

At interaction level

Reporting Click Boxes and Text Entry Boxes

At project level

Creating a SCORM manifest

Publishing an eLearning-enabled project

Integrating the SCORM package in the LMS

Using Acrobat.com as an alternate reporting method

Configuring the Captivate project for Acrobat.com reporting

Uploading the files to Acrobat.com

Taking the Quiz

Using the Adobe Captivate Quiz Result Analyzer

Summary

Meet the Community

Rick Zanotti

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

8. Templates, Master Slides, and Themes

Preparing our work

Experimenting with Themes

The Elements of a Theme

The Master Slides

The Styles

The Skin

Creating a Theme

Customizing the Master Slides of the Theme

Customizing the Main Master Slide

Adding a Master Slide to the Theme

Adding Placeholders to the Master Slides

Applying the Master Slides to the slides of the project

Modifying a Master Slide

Adding Styles to the Theme

Styling the Standard Objects

Extra credit

Styling the Question Slides

Styling the Buttons

Extra credit

Adding a Skin to the Theme

Working with Templates

Creating a Template

Adding Placeholder Slides

Creating a new Captivate project from a Template

Summary

Meet the Community

Rod Ward

Bio

Tristan Ward

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

9. Using Captivate with Other Applications

Preparing our work

Captivate and PowerPoint

Converting an existing presentation to Captivate

Viewing the presentation in PowerPoint

Creating a Captivate project from a PowerPoint application

Round Tripping between Captivate and PowerPoint

Updating a linked PowerPoint presentation

Inserting a PowerPoint slide in a Captivate project

Extra credit

Importing a PowerPoint slide in an existing Captivate project

Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word

Exporting the project to XML

Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate

Exporting to Flash Professional

Summary

Meet the Community

Kevin Siegel

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

10. Reviewing a Captivate Project

Preparing our work

The Review process at a glance

Distributing the project

Commenting a Captivate project

Installing the Adobe Captivate Reviewer application

Using the Captivate Reviewer to create new comments

Exporting the comments

Collecting and addressing the comments

Addressing the comments in Captivate

Using Acrobat.com in the Review process

Ending a review

Summary

Meet the Community

Shivaswamy Viswanath

Bio

Contact Details

My personal note

11. Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets

Preparing our work

Variables

System and User-Defined variables

Exploring the System Variables

Generating text dynamically

Extra credit: generating a Quiz Result Slide for the Pretest

Using User-Defined variables

Creating a User-Defined variable

Capturing values with Text Entry Boxes

Using User-Defined variables to dynamically generate Text

Advanced Actions

The Standard Action

Automatically turning on Closed Captions with an Advanced Action

Extra credit

Conditional Actions

Creating the necessary variables

Assigning a score to each possible answers

Giving names to objects

Conditionally showing and hiding objects

Using a Conditional Action to implement Branching with the Pretest

Widgets

Locating Widgets

Understanding the three types of Widgets

Static Widgets

Interactive Widgets

Question Widgets

Where to find Widgets?

Adobe Captivate Exchange

Blogs and websites

Working with the Smart Learning Interactions

Summary

Meet the Community

CpGuru

Bio

Contact details

My personal note

Index