Moving And Resizing Text Captions - Adobe CAPTIVATE 2-USING CAPTIVATE Use Manual

Design tips for custom text captions
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Colors
The colors in the text caption should not be the same color as the transparent color.
The transparent color is determined by the upper left pixel. For example, if the color in the
upper left pixel is yellow, everything that is the same color yellow will be transparent in the text
caption. Also, the text caption itself can have a gradient background, but the area around
("behind") the text caption, must be a solid color.
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Anti-alias
Do not anti-alias the edges of your text captions. Your text captions will appear on
different screenshots and the anti-alias might cause a jagged halo effect on some screenshots.

Moving and resizing text captions

You can resize text captions manually or automatically, and move text captions to new locations
on a slide.
Note: If you are resizing a text caption, you cannot make the caption smaller than the bitmap used to
create the caption. For example, the caption style "Pill" uses bitmaps sized approximately 18 pixels
(wide) x 16 pixels (high), so these bitmaps could not be resized down to 15 x 12 pixels. However, any
of the caption bitmaps can be made larger. If you need very small captions, consider creating custom
captions.
To manually resize a text caption:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
Select a slide that contains a text caption.
2.
Click the text caption you want to resize.
3.
Move your mouse pointer over one of selection handles on the edge of the text caption until the
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pointer becomes a resize handle.
Using the left mouse button, drag to resize the text caption.
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To automatically resize text captions:
Adobe Captivate can automatically resize a text caption according to the amount of text in the
text caption. If you edit the text, the text caption changes size to match the new amount of text.
This is an easy way to keep your text captions looking balanced and proportional.
Open an Adobe Captivate project that contains text captions.
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From the Options menu, select Autosize Captions. (If a check mark appears next to the option,
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Autosize Captions is enabled; if no check mark is visible, Autosize Captions is not enabled.)
Tip: If you want the text caption size to be determined by the size and position settings, clear the
Autosize Captions option in the Options menu.
To move a text caption:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
Select a slide that contains a text caption.
2.
Move the mouse over the caption you want to move.
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When the hand cursor appears, use the left mouse button to drag the text caption to a new
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location on the slide.
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