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Bump. How's progress on this Adobe? Implementation supposedly started in July 2023. This is now the final feature holding us back from moving to Cp12 (we are still on CpC 11.8)
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A couple of refinements to this request:
1. Please allow the shapes to be editable.
2. Use a file format for shapes that allows users to define their own shapes.
3. Allow the objects (images & shapes) to be placed anywhere on the canvas, not restricted to a layout block.Drew.
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Please incorporate the TOC as an option in the theme editor so that font, colour, background etc. can be easily changed.
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Please add a rectangular shape with a leader/pointer so that we can point to the relevant object.
In 12.6 there are four "Geometry" options, one of which is a balloon – like you would find in PowerPoint. However, when it contains more than a few words the balloon has to be quite large and looks very amateurish (like a 4th grader's PowerPoint presentation). Please give us something more professional looking.
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@Mayank Mehrotra - I think the sentence, "It would be incredibly helpful if users could click an image and view it full size" answers your question.
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Many of my projects are linear YouTube style software demos (not simulations) which are slide-based, not video. The progress bar is important for users to see where they are in the demo and it allows them to quickly seek forward and back to specific slides.
One refinement I would like to make to this request is the addition of visible sections
or 'chapters' on the progress bar similar to YouTube. Note that this is a feature already provided by Active Presenter, a competitor to Captivate.Drew.
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I have a significant training catalog of software simulations. My client's system can only operate on desktop computers and therefore the simulations are a fixed size, typically 1800x900px. At these dimensions, the content cannot be resized (responsive) and is unreadable on phones and small tablets. The continuous scrolling and responsive first design focus of the new Cp also leaves me in a bind. I will not be able to use it until a non-responsive fixed canvas sized project option is implemented.
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Hi All,
We are considering autosave feature. We already have ctrl+s to save the project.
Please let me know in case autosave feature will be more feasible rather than having save button on the top.
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@Mayank Mehrotra - would the autosave you are proposing be time based, eg. save every 30 seconds or every couple of minutes, or would it save after every action by the user? Both are not ideal. With time based, there can still be a period between autosaves where some edits may have occurred and your work is not saved. Saving after every change/action may have a performance impact, particularly if the project is large and takes a while to save. I would suggest provide autosave as an option, but provide a save button on the toolbar.
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Feature is available in 12.4.
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Ok, first the good news:
With v13 you can now add as many highlight boxes as you like to a simulation slide. Instruction boxes have improved text formatting and I would say it's better than CpC. Both types of boxes can be placed anywhere on a simulation slide. Note that they can't be added to content slides or question slides. Under shape appearance you can select different geometry (shape) options and we are no longer limited to a basic rectangle.
Highlight and instruction boxes can have animations applied for entrance, emphasis and exit, similar to CpC.
Highlight boxes double as the new replacement for CpC image objects. Under appearance, you can select the fill of a highlight box to be an image. Somewhat convoluted and unintuitive. If you are used to using image objects to 'patch' an area of a slide background in CpC, it will be frustrating in Cp13 to align pixels as there is no option to nudge in pixel increments using the keyboard.
The bad news:
Unfortunately, the geometry options are very limited – rectangle, ellipse, balloon with pointer, (thought) cloud for instruction boxes. The balloon geometry option is a small step in the right direction, but it doesn't present a sentence of text well and looks amateurish and PowerPoint-like. It would be better to have a rounded rectangle with a leader/pointer. See attached examples.
My request below in August 24 to make the shapes editable (at least like the Edit Points option in CpC) and to have the ability to import a common shape file format – say, I dunno, maybe Adobe Illustrator – are still a distant dream.
For reasons only known to the Adobe Captivate team, you can't copy an instruction box or a highlight box and paste a duplicate on the slide – or any other slide for that matter. You are required to create a new instruction/highlight box, copy the appearance of the one you want to duplicate then apply the appearance to the new one. Besides the obvious omission of Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V, I would like to see alt+click & drag added – a common shortcut for copying objects found in other Adobe apps.
If you want to align multiple instruction/highlight boxes vertically or horizontally as you can in CpC you will have to eyeball it – with your mouse. You can't nudge these boxes in any direction by small increments like you can with arrow keys in CpC. And, you can't select multiple boxes at the same time and move them with the mouse – it's one box at a time.