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USING CAPTIVATE
Creating Projects
Last updated 9/28/2011
In addition to placeholders, you can add all Adobe Captivate objects and supported media to templates. The template
serves as a ‘stencil’ only. Users can change the objects and placeholders without any restriction when creating a project
from the template.
To make a project template more effective, add slide notes providing information or instructions. Include information
on the recommended types and properties of objects, media, or slides that users are to insert in the placeholders.
1 Select File > New Project > Project Template.
2 Specify the dimensions of the project template, and click OK.
3 Do one or all of the following:
• Set the properties for the slide, such as background, navigation, and audio.
• Use drawing tools to color and demarcate different sections of the slide.
• Set preferences for that template using the Preferences dialog box. The preferences are automatically applied
when you use the project template to create a project.
4 Insert other Adobe Captivate objects, and supported media types.
Best practice is to add all objects or media that do not change from project to project (for example, a logo) as actual
objects. Use placeholders for objects or media that are specific to the project.
5 To insert placeholders for slides, select Insert > Placeholder Slides, and choose the type of slide placeholder.
6 To insert placeholders for objects in the slides, select Insert > Placeholder Objects and choose the type of object
placeholder. Specify the properties for the various placeholder objects that you have inserted.
7 Save the file. The file is saved with a .cptl extension.
For a demonstration on how to create templates, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_templatetutorial_en.
Create projects from project templates
1 Select File > New Project > Project From Template.
2 Navigate to the template file and click Open.
3 Double-click the placeholder and do the following:
• For placeholder objects, use the respective dialog box to add objects to the placeholder. The placeholder is
converted to a concrete object.
• For recording slide placeholders, double-click the placeholder slide to start recording.
• For question slide placeholders, double-click the placeholder slide to insert a question slide.
Customizing the project size
When you start creating a new project, you are prompted to choose a predefine size for the project. You can also specify
a custom Width and Height for your project.
If you want to reuse the custom size frequently, you can save the project size and assign a name to it. By doing so, you
get to choose the custom size from the Select menu the next time you create a project.
1 In the New <type of project> Project dialog box, click Customize. The Custom Project Size dialog box appears.
2 Click New and type a name for the custom size. For example, “Size for Adobe Projects.”
3 Specify the height and width.
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