Adding Rollover Captions - Adobe CAPTIVATE 2-USING CAPTIVATE Use Manual

Select the Recording Options tab.
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Select Enable auto recording.
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In Language, select the language in which you want the text captions to be written.
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In Recording mode, select Demonstration, Assessment Simulation, Training Simulation, or
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Custom. In all of these modes, text captions are automatically added. (To further fine-tune
custom settings, click the Edit settings button.)
Click OK.
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Click Record to begin recording additional slides.
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When you finish, press End (on your keyboard) to stop recording.
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The new slides are generated and are displayed in Storyboard view.
Select one of the recorded slides to view the slide and read the text captions that Adobe
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Captivate automatically added. To edit caption text, double-click a caption.
Note: Adobe Captivate can automatically generate text captions for all standard Windows user
interface elements. It might not, however, support nonstandard user interface elements, including
menu text in applications created with Delphi.

Adding rollover captions

Rollover captions are unique. They consist of a caption and a rectangle (the "hot" area). Rollover
captions appear when the user moves the mouse over the hot area at runtime. You can customize
everything about a rollover caption: the location, outline, and size of the hot area, as well as the
usual caption options.
To add a rollover caption:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
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In Storyboard view, select the slide to which you want to add a rollover caption.
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From the Insert menu, select Rollover Caption.
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The Rollover Caption Properties dialog box appears.
On the Rollover Caption tab, set the following properties:
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Caption type
named and a small thumbnail image shows what the text caption looks like.
Font
Click the pop-up menu to select a font for the text caption.
Size Type a number or click the pop-up menu to select a font size for the caption text.
Color Click the color box to select a font color for the caption text.
Caption style
with directional callouts so you can select a caption that points in the most appropriate
direction.
Display options
text, and text justification.
Click the pop-up menu to select a text caption type. Each text caption type is
Click one of the five caption types. Four of the caption styles contain captions
If you want, set additional display options such as bold, italic, or underlined
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