You need the latest version of Adobe Captivate 2019 (available as a free 30-day trial version on the Adobe website) to complete the exercises in this book. Some exercises require the installation of the Adobe eLearning assets and Text-To-Speech voice agents. Both these packages are part of your Adobe Captivate license and are available for free on the Adobe website. You can download your trial copy of Adobe Captivate 2019 from https://www.adobe.com/be_en/products/captivate/download-trial/try.html
This book assumes a clean install of Adobe Captivate with all the preferences at their default. If needed, you can reset Captivate preferences to default using the following steps:
- Make sure Adobe Captivate 2019 is not running.
- Navigate to the folder where Captivate is installed:
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2019 x64 (Windows)
- /Applications/Adobe Captivate 2019 (Mac)
- Navigate to the utils directory.
- Double-click the CleanPreferencesWin.bat (Windows) or the CleanPreferencesMac (Mac) file.
- The next time you start Captivate, your preferences should be back to default.
Other requirements are as follows:
- A modern web browser with the latest version of the Flash Player installed
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 or higher (optional)
- Microsoft Word 2013 or higher (optional)
- Latest version of Adobe Photoshop CC (optional)
- Latest version of Adobe Audition CC (optional)
- Latest version of Adobe Illustrator CC (optional)
