Creating Custom Text Caption Styles - Adobe 65029940 - Captivate - PC Using Manual

Creating custom text caption styles

You can create custom text caption styles for your Captivate movies with a graphics program, such
as Macromedia Fireworks or Adobe Photoshop.
Custom text captions must be in BMP (bitmap) format. In general, each Captivate text caption
has five associated bitmap images.
Naming custom text caption styles
When creating custom text caption styles, be sure to follow the correct naming conventions. Each
caption style has a unique name, and you must use this name at the beginning of each associated
bitmap filename. For example, if you create a new text caption style named "Brightblue," the five
bitmap images that constitute the new style should be named as follows:
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Brightblue1.bmp an image with no callouts
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Brightblue2.bmp an image with a callout to the right or upper right
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Brightblue3.bmp an image with a callout to the left or upper left
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Brightblue4.bmp an image with a callout to the lower right
•
Brightblue5.bmp an image with a callout to the lower left
Storing custom text caption styles
You must store all of the bitmap images for a custom text caption style in the Captivate Captions
folder (located in: C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Captivate\Gallery\Captions). After you add the
five new bitmaps to the captions folder, Captivate recognizes the bitmap files as a new text
caption style. The next time you add a new text caption, your new custom style appears in the
text caption style list, so you can easily select and use the new style.
Text alignment on custom text captions
Sometimes text on custom text captions can appear out of alignment. To solve this problem, you
must set the left, right, top, and bottom margins.
Each of the five text caption styles requires different margin settings because text appears at
slightly different places on each text caption.
The margin settings are stored in a text file with the extension .fcm. You can use Notepad or
WordPad to create or edit FCM files.
To change text alignment on a custom text caption:
Using Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Captivate
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\Gallery\Captions. All of the text caption BMP and corresponding FCM files are located in this
folder.
Right-click the exact FCM file you need to edit, and select Open with.
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Select Notepad or WordPad.
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