Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 75

Last updated 4/22/2010
• Alternatively, suppose a caption and its slide appear concurrently, but you want a slight delay. To achieve this
effect, move the mouse over the center of the caption on the Timeline until the hand cursor appears. Then drag
the entire caption so the left edge aligns with 2s (a 2-second delay) or 4s (a 4-second delay) in the header.
If two captions overlap on the slide, select the caption you want to appear in front by setting the stacking order. To
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change the stacking order, moving captions to the back or front of the slide Stage. The key point to remember is
that captions at the back of the Stage appear behind other captions. Use one of the following methods to set the
stacking order:
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a caption on the slide and select one of the caption order
options. If necessary, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) other captions on the slide and adjust
their order.
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Select a caption. On the Edit view toolbar (next to Slide Properties), click Bring selected objects to the front or
Send selected objects behind.
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On the Timeline, move the mouse over a caption until the hand pointer appears. Drag the caption up or down
to change its position in the stacking order. Moving a caption higher in the stacking order moves it to the front
of the Stage. Moving a caption lower moves it to the back of the Stage.
Captions in other languages
Adding a language for text captions
You can add new languages to the list of existing languages in which text captions are recorded. The list of existing
languages is available in the Recording dialog box. Text captions of events are stored as
CaptureTextTemplates_<language>.rdl files in the
• (On Windows) \\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5 directory. For example, the RDL file for Chinese-
Simplified is CaptureTextTemplates_Chinese-Simplified.rdl.
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(On Mac OS) \\Applications\Adobe Captivate 5 directory.
You can use the existing RDL files to record text captions in a desired language.
Record text captions in another language
Open Windows Explorer, and navigate to
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• (On Windows) \\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5 directory
• (On Mac OS) \\Applications\Adobe Captivate 5 directory
Copy a file with an RDL extension.
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Paste the file in the same location, and rename it according to the new language. For example, if you want to record
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in Polish, rename the file CaptureTextTemplates_Polish.rdl.
Open the RDL file in any text editor.
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In the Object Name and the Event Name tags, change the text for Default Template And Template Attributes to the
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specified language.
Save the file.
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In the Preferences dialog box (Edit > Preferences (on Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (on Mac OS)),
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select Recording > Settings in Category.
8 In the Generate Captions In, select the added language.
When you record, the text captions are generated in the specified language.
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