Manage Library Objects - Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual

Last updated 4/22/2010
• Avoid exporting an effect created using frame by frame animations in Flash. You cannot achieve the desired results
when such effects are used in Adobe Captivate.
Instead, create effects using classic tweens and import these into Adobe Captivate.
• Group the effect parameters by keyframes. You can use the 'separator' type to group related properties.
• Check if the XML file of the effect exported from Flash is valid, before using it in Adobe Captivate. To do so, open
the XML file in a browser or an XML editor.
Saving and deleting effects
Click in the Effects panel.
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Browse to the location where you want to save the effect or the effect sequence, and click Save. The effect sequence
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is saved as an XML file.
To delete an effect, select the effect, and then click
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Manage Library objects

View objects in the Library
1 Select Window > Library.
The Library panel appears.
Open a folder (Audio, Backgrounds, Images, Media) to view the objects in that category.
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Click an individual object to display it in the Library preview pane.
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In addition to viewing image files, you can play audio and animation files in the Library preview pane.
Reuse an object listed in the Library
Select Window > Library.
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In the Library panel, expand the folder for the category of object you want to reuse.
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Click the object that you want to reuse and preview the object in the preview pane.
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Drag the object to the selected slide or slidelet. The object becomes a part of the slide or slidelet depending on where
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it is placed.
Note: After you copy the object to the slide, editing the properties of the object will not affect other instances of that object
in the project.
Reuse an object in a different project Library
1 Select Window > Library.
2 In the toolbar of the Library panel, click the browse icon.
Navigate to, and select, the project that contains the objects you want to reuse and click Open.
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The library for the other project opens in a separate and expandable window.
4 Click to select the object that you want to reuse.
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