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March 05, 2009

Adobe Captivate tutorials now on Adobe Design Center

All the tutorials for Adobe Captivate have been posted to the design center at

Adobe Captivate 4 tutorials


The following movies are available at this location


  • Adding interactions to projects

  • Adobe Captivate workspace

  • Adobe Captivate and Microsoft PowerPoint

  • Aggregator

  • Audio

  • Creating quizzes in Adobe Captivate

  • Designing templates

  • Drawing

  • Editing Adobe Captivate projects

  • Importing PSD files into Adobe Captivate

  • Publishing Adobe Captivate projects

  • Recording Adobe Captivate projects

  • Reviewing Adobe Captivate projects

  • Rollover slidelets

  • Table of contents

  • Text to speech

  • Variables and advanced actions

  • Widgets

    • Working with project templates

    Posted by Preran Kurnool at 06:17 PM | | Comments (0)

March 02, 2009

Reducing the file size of Captivate projects

You can reduce the file size of the project by ensuring the following:

  • Ensure that you have reduced the file size of any graphic in Photoshop before you import it into the project.
  • Do not import heavy video files into the project.
  • If you have multiple instances of the same graphic, audio, or video, reuse them from the library. Do not import them repeatedly.
  • Delete unused items from the library.
  • In the Library panel, right click anywhere, and select Unused Items from the menu. Delete the unused items. Note that your project is unaffected by removing the unused items.
  • Externalize the following using the Publishing Preferences (Edit > Preferences > Project > Publish Settings) Skin.
  • Record FMR files using the Smaller SWF Size option (Edit > Preferences > Recording > Full Motion Recording).
  • Optimize the size of the SWF files generated using the Preferences dialog box. (Edit > Preferences > Project > SWF size and quality).

Check out the following URLs:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/filesize.html
http://rajntechnlife.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/how-to-reduce-captivate-fileswf-size/
http://elearninglive.com/wordpress/2007/04/captivate-file-size-tips/
http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2006/03/captivate-file-size-tricks-for.html

Posted by Preran Kurnool at 08:22 PM | | Comments (0)