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USING CAPTIVATE
Noninteractive Objects and Media
Last updated 9/28/2011
3 Select a text editor.
4 Edit the following values as necessary:
• Left Margin is the number of pixels from the left side of the bitmap to the text.
• Right Margin is the number of pixels from the right side of the bitmap to the text.
• Top Margin is the number of pixels from the top of the bitmap to the text.
• Bottom Margin is the number of pixels from the bottom of the bitmap to the text.
5 (Optional) If necessary, you can edit the MarginX and MarginY settings. This can be important if you are adding
captions automatically.
• MarginX is the number of pixels horizontally from the nearest corner to the tip of the caption callout.
• Margin Y is the number of pixels vertically from the nearest corner to the tip of the caption callout.
Note: The nearest corner is identified in the file open in a text editor under “Corner.” For example, Corner=right, top.
6 From the File menu, select Save.
A dialog box may appear, asking whether you want to replace the original file. Click Yes.
7 Close the text editor.
Design tips for custom text captions
Colors Don’t use the transparent colors for captions. The upper-left pixel determines which color is transparent. For
example, if the color in the upper-left pixel is yellow, everything that is the same yellow will be transparent in the text
caption. Also, the text caption itself can have a gradient background, but the area around (“behind”) the text caption,
must be a solid color.
Anti-alias Do not anti-alias the edges of your text captions. Your text captions will appear on different screenshots,
and the anti-alias can cause a jagged halo effect on some screenshots.
Import and export text captions
Import text captions
You can import text captions from a DOC file. First, you export the text captions from your Adobe Captivate project.
Adobe Captivate creates a DOC file that preserves all the formatting from the text captions. While the text captions are
in DOC format, you can make text and formatting changes in a word-processing program. Then you can import the
text captions back into the Adobe Captivate project using the following steps.
Note: If you export text captions to a DOC file, that DOC file can only be imported back into the original project.
Importing and exporting text captions to and from a DOC file can be useful in several situations. For example, if you
have to edit many captions, it is easier and faster to work in DOC files instead of navigating from slide to slide.
1 In an open project that contains text captions, select File > Export > Project Captions And Closed Captions.
2 Make the necessary changes while the text captions are in DOC format (in the Updated Text Caption Data column),
and save the DOC file.
3 Select File > Import > Project Captions And Closed Captions.
4 Select the DOC file that contains the exported text captions.
5 Click Open.
6 An Information dialog box appears, confirming that the import was successful. Click OK.
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