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USING CAPTIVATE
Noninteractive Objects and Media
Last updated 9/28/2011
Automatically resize text captions
Adobe Captivate can automatically resize a text caption according to the amount of text in the text caption. If you edit
the text, the caption is resized to accommodate the altered text. This is an easy way to keep your text captions looking
balanced and proportional.
1 In an open project, select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).
2 In the Category panel, select Defaults from the Global menu.
3 Select Autosize Captions.
Change text caption order using the Timeline
Adobe Captivate lets you add multiple captions to each slide. You can specify the order in which these captions appear
using the Timeline. The Timeline enables you to precisely adjust the timing of all objects, including captions, on a slide.
1 In an open project, navigate to the slide containing the captions whose order you want to change.
2 In the Timeline (Window > Timeline), change the order and timing of captions as required.
• For example, move the mouse over the left or right edge of a caption on the Timeline until the resize cursor
appears. Then drag the edge left or right. This changes when the caption appears or disappears and how long it
is shown.
• Alternatively, suppose a caption and its slide appear concurrently, but you want a slight delay. To achieve this
effect, move the mouse over the center of the caption on the Timeline until the hand cursor appears. Then drag
the entire caption so the left edge aligns with 2s (a 2-second delay) or 4s (a 4-second delay) in the header.
3 If two captions overlap on the slide, select the caption you want to appear in front by setting the stacking order. To
change the stacking order, moving captions to the back or front of the slide Stage. The key point to remember is
that captions at the back of the Stage appear behind other captions. Use one of the following methods to set the
stacking order:
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a caption on the slide and select one of the caption order
options. If necessary, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) other captions on the slide and adjust
their order.
• Select a caption. On the Edit view toolbar (next to Slide Properties), click Bring selected objects to the front or
Send selected objects behind.
• On the Timeline, move the mouse over a caption until the hand pointer appears. Drag the caption up or down
to change its position in the stacking order. Moving a caption higher in the stacking order moves it to the front
of the Stage. Moving a caption lower moves it to the back of the Stage.
Captions in other languages
Adding a language for text captions
You can add new languages to the list of existing languages in which text captions are recorded. The list of existing
languages is available in the Recording dialog box. Text captions of events are stored as
CaptureTextTemplates_<language>.rdl files in the
• (On Windows) \\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5 directory. For example, the RDL file for Chinese-
Simplified is CaptureTextTemplates_Chinese-Simplified.rdl.
• (On Mac OS) \\Applications\Adobe Captivate 5.
You can use the existing RDL files to record text captions in a desired language.
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