Troubleshooting Fonts On Transparent Captions - Adobe CAPTIVATE 2-USING CAPTIVATE Use Manual

To change video quality in a slide:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
Double-click the slide containing the colors you want to correct.
2.
From the Slide menu, select Video Quality and one of the video options:
3.
Standard The default format for slides. Standard is the most efficient choice for the majority
of screenshots because it uses 256 optimized colors. Standard slides also compress well, which
results in smaller file sizes.
Optimized
JPEG
This option is best used when the slide contains a photograph. You can change the
quality and compression ratio for JPEG images on the Project Preferences dialog box.
High Quality
colors for the slides. This option should only be used if the Standard and Optimized options
do not offer the correct color depth. The file size increases dramatically using this option.
Note: Selecting the JPEG or High Quality format may increase the file size and the time it takes to
download your project. You should only use a format other than Standard when necessary and
appropriate.

Troubleshooting fonts on transparent captions

This problem occurs if transparent captions are created and the system setting for font smoothing
(anti-aliasing) is enabled. To fix the font appearance, turn off the font smoothing option.
If you use Windows XP:
From the Start menu, select Settings > Control Panel.
1.
Double-click Display.
2.
Click the Appearance tab.
3.
Click Effects.
4.
If the option Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts is selected (a check mark
5.
appears to the left of the option), click the check mark to clear it and disable the setting.
If you use Windows 2000 or earlier versions of Windows:
From the Start menu, select Settings > Control Panel.
1.
Double-click Display.
2.
Click the Effects tab.
3.
If the option Smooth edges of screen fonts is selected (a check mark appears to the left of the
4.
option), click the check mark to clear it and disable the setting.
This option gives you the highest JPEG quality possible.
Compared to the Standard format of 256 colors, this format uses 16 million
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