Exporting to Flash Professional
Adobe Flash Professional and Captivate have a lot in common. Both applications are used primarily to generate the .swf
files that can be played back by the free Flash Player plugin.
That being said, the Flash technology has a lot more to offer than what is actually used by Captivate. Adobe Flash Professional is the ultimate Flash authoring tool. By using Adobe Flash Professional, a Flash developer is able to leverage the full power of the Flash technology. It is possible to export a Captivate project to Flash Professional so that a Flash developer is able to tweak the Captivate projects in many ways that are not possible in Captivate.
In the next exercise, you will export the Captivate project to Flash Professional CS6, CC, or CC 2014.
Note
Parts of the following exercise require Flash Professional CS6, CC, or CC 2014 to be installed on the computer, along with Captivate.
The steps to export the Captivate project to Flash Professional CS6 or CC are as follows...