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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Captivate 8 Create responsive demonstrations, simulations, and quizzes for multiscreen delivery with Adobe Captivate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398309
Length 638 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Damien Bruyndonckx Damien Bruyndonckx
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. Capturing the Slides 3. Working with Standard Objects 4. Working with Multimedia 5. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools 6. Working with Interactive Objects 7. Working with Styles, Master Slides, Themes, and Templates 8. Producing a Video Demo 9. Creating a Responsive Project 10. Working with Quizzes 11. Using Captivate with Other Applications 12. Working with Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets 13. Finishing Touches and Publishing Index

Working with Themes


A Theme is a file that collects all the formatting properties of a project, including (but not limited to) the Styles. Captivate installs with a handful of ready-to-use Themes right out of the box. In order to have a better idea of what a Theme is, you will start with some simple experiments using the predefined Themes of Captivate. The steps are as follows:

  1. Save and close every open file in Captivate.

  2. Use the File | New Project | Blank Project menu item.

  3. In the New Blank Project dialog, use the Select drop-down menu to choose a size of 800 x 600 for the project. When done, click on the OK button.

Captivate creates a new blank project of the chosen size. When this new project is created, a single slide is automatically added to the Filmstrip panel. This new slide is already formatted and already contains several styled objects.

Tip

Creating a blank project from the Welcome screen

To create a new blank project, you can also use the New tab of the Welcome screen. In this case...

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