Question About Links to PDFs in RoboHelp
"I have created links to several PDFs in my RoboHelp project. Those PDFs (not the links) need to be updated. How do I do that?"
Answer
That’s a simple process of creating the new PDFs using the same names as the old. Then copy the new PDFs into the RoboHelp project folder and replace the old ones when prompted. The next time you generate and publish the project, you will be all set.
Question on Adobe Captivate 2 Question Slides
"I’m using question slides and the numbering is wrong which is affecting the scoring. My project has 4 slides, then it branches off into either an Order Entry piece which is 27 slides long or a Quiz portion that is six slides long. When you are editing the question slides, the numbering is correct, i.e. Question slide 1 out of 1. When you preview the project, it says 1 out of 21. When you publish and view, same thing occurs. So when you do complete a quiz, and you get all five slides correct, it says you failed because you only got five out of 25 correct. Twenty mystery quiz slides are being added."
Answer
I’ve seen this problem before. You have objects in the project that are reporting user interaction and the scores are inadvertently being included in your quiz (any Button, Click Box or Text Entry Box can be reported and treated as part of a quiz). You can turn off the reporting by showing the Properties of the objects, selecting the Reporting tab and deselecting Include in Quiz. After repeating this step for all of the interactive objects not part of the quiz, you will be good to go.
Question About Upgrading to Adobe Captivate 3
In your opinion, is it worth upgrading to Adobe Captivate 3 from version 2? I feel that Captivate 2 had several bugs. Has Adobe fixed the problems with Captivate 2 or has Adobe provided new features without fixing existing problems?
Answer
Adobe Captivate 3 has several wonderful new features (question pools, random question slides, the ability to duplicate questions slides, search/replace, recording multiple modes at one time, Vista support, improved PowerPoint import support) and I would strongly recommend upgrading. However, Captivate 3 is too new to pinpoint the possible bugs. As with all upgrades, much has been fixed from the previous version; some new bugs may be lurking.
I have Captivate 3 with a 1 GB RAM and HP 1.8 GHz Pentium Dual core processor. When I am working with creating simple animated text with music (only one slide long, with 4 text objects, spread over about 20 seconds of music), Captivate freezes up on the edit screen when trying to edit the text objects. I click OK, Cancel, or Apply (or exit) and the edit screen doesn’t go away – it just sits there, and I can’t do anything but kill the Captivate process. My two other colleagues who have similar computers with Captivate 3 are also experiencing the same thing. I’ve tried recreating the video from scratch, with the same results. Any suggestions?
I have Captivate 3 with a 1 GB RAM and HP 1.8 GHz Pentium Dual core processor. When I am working with creating simple animated text with music (only one slide long, with 4 text objects, spread over about 20 seconds of music), Captivate freezes up on the edit screen when trying to edit the text objects. I click OK, Cancel, or Apply (or exit) and the edit screen doesn’t go away – it just sits there, and I can’t do anything but kill the Captivate process. My two other colleagues who have similar computers with Captivate 3 are also experiencing the same thing. I’ve tried recreating the video from scratch, with the same results. Any suggestions?
I have Captivate 3 with a 1 GB RAM and HP 1.8 GHz Pentium Dual core processor. When I am working with creating simple animated text with music (only one slide long, with 4 text objects, spread over about 20 seconds of music), Captivate freezes up on the edit screen when trying to edit the text objects. I click OK, Cancel, or Apply (or exit) and the edit screen doesn’t go away – it just sits there, and I can’t do anything but kill the Captivate process. My two other colleagues who have similar computers with Captivate 3 are also experiencing the same thing. I’ve tried recreating the video from scratch, with the same results. Any suggestions?