Prior to Adobe Captivate 8 the interfaces for HTML5 and SWF were not in sync, which was the cause of much grief and confusion for advanced users. Some other nice stuff for advanced developers:Ī common JavaScript interface for SWF and HTML5 output.
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However in Adobe Captivate 8 you now have the ability to remove these pop-ups in a more professional manner. Normally I simply edit the video demo afterwards and places a rectangle shape on top of the pop-up so it is hidden in the final output. How many times have you forgotten to close down Outlook before starting on recording a video demonstration? And how many times have you received your favorite newsletter email right in the middle of the recording? I know it has happened to me quite a few times. One other great change in Adobe Captivate 8 is the Pop-up blocker (actually it’s more like a pop-up cleaner). Geo Location variables in Adobe Captivate 8 Finally you get two new text-to-speech voices, which I haven’t tested or heard yet myself. You’ll also find a completely new Interaction – “Catch the AlphaNums”, which uses the accelerometer in the users mobile devices to control the game. I haven’t seen the new character sets myself yet so I can’t say anything about the quality of them. In this release the number of characters have also been bumped up to 25 different sets in 50 different poses. In Adobe Captivate 8 you will find 11 different course themes and you also have the ability to apply different color swatches to these themes allowing you to create a ton of different variations. However with native support in Captivate 8 it is much easier to import, resize and position HTML5 animations in your eLearning courses. In Captivate 7 you could achieve the same by using the “Web Page Interaction” and reference your HTML5 animation through this. This allows you to create HTML5 based animations/ interactions in Edge Animate and use them in Adobe Captivate. You can import HTML5 and Edge Animations directly into Adobe Captivate now. Again a nice feature which will make Smart Shapes even more useful.Īdobe Captivate 8 provides native support for WebObjects now.
You can now save free-form Smart Shapes as a custom shape and reuse them in your project. This is really nice if you are using Smart Shapes as buttons as it allows you to create “buttons” that actually look and behave like buttons.Īdobe Captivate 8 allows you to define up, over and down states for Smart Shapes when using them as buttons. Support for roll over and down states for Smart Shapes. This was insanely annoying and thankfully this has been fixed in Adobe Captivate 8. In earlier versions of Adobe Captivate if you applied an effect with 2 second duration and then at a later point changed the slide duration or the duration of the object with the effect, this would also alter the effect timing. However there has been time to implement a few more changes in this new version.Įffects are now absolutely timed with the object. There is no doubt that the two above mentioned changes have taken pretty much all of the development time from the engineering team. There are simply too many things to cover in this initial review. I will be writing a more in-depth article about the new Responsive Project features in Adobe Captivate 8. The launcher will also automatically detect the device the user is using and adapt the content to fit that device.Ī very simple proof of concept Responsive project can be see here: Publishing Responsive Projects is easy and straight-forward and you can integrate them with your LMS just as with any other Adobe Captivate version.
Of course you can manually adjust this as well if needed. Captivate will automatically detect the active / important part of the screen capture and adapt that to the tablet and mobile break point. You’ll simply record as you always have and once you are in edit mode the simulation will appear in the three different break points. It also possible to do responsive screen captures in Adobe Captivate 8. You also have the ability to maintain your layout across the different devices by using relative positioning of objects.Īdobe Captivate 8 comes with ready-made responsive themes so you can get started right away using one of the built in themes. You can then switch to another break point and move, edit or resize objects, change fonts, colors etc. You’ll work as you always have in Adobe Captivate designing a single version (break point). Desktop, Tablet and Mobile Break Points in Adobe Captivate 8
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