Adobe RoboHelp Question: Why Can’t I Get Help?
I’m using Adobe RoboHelp 7. When I try to get help via Help > Contents & Index, nothing happens. Any ideas?
Answer: Strangely enough, I’ve received three emails about this very subject this week. The problem is that RoboHelp’s Help System needs a live link to Adobe’s servers to work. If you’re not online, the Help system doesn’t work. No worries. Choose Tools > Options and, on the General tab, select Use Offline Help. Click OK and you should be able to use RoboHelp’s Help system via Help > Contents & Index.
Adobe Captivate Question: Is There a Limit to How Big my Project Can Be?
I keep hearing that there is a size/time limitation when creating a Captivate 3 demo.
Is there a recommendation you have… like make your file only this big in Megabytes or this long and then use the Menu control to link to subsequent movies?
I’m getting ready to start a fairly sizeable Captivate 3 project and before I start, it would be great to get this info so then I can create logical breaks and build separate movies to be linked to.
Answer:
Since users will have to wait until 60% of your published lesson has been download before it will play, I suggest keeping your published SWFs as simple as possible and under 10mb. In addition, there is a limit to how long your Captivate projects play before the Flash player simply refuses to play the published SWF… and the best way to check that is to choose Project > Bandwidth Analysis. On the Project Summary tab, check your Frame count. If it’s larger than 10,000 frames (anything over 16,000 and you’ll likely experience playback problems), try the following:
- Lower your FPS (Edit > Preferences > Project) to something like 20
- Simplify your slides (long playtimes and complex animations (such as rollovers) will increase the project’s frame count)
- Lower the project slide count (I would not recommend Captivate projects larger than 150 slides)
eLearning Question: Where Can I Find Copyright Blurbs?
Is there common copyright language used for eLearning lessons that you can point me to?
Answer:
I’m not a copyright lawyer, nor do I play one on television. However, I don’t believe the copyright language used for eLearning is much different than the language used for print documentation. There are plenty of free Web resources out there that you can use for more information. This one looks like the real deal.
eLearning Question: What are the Rules for Punctuation?
Are there rules for using punctuation in eLearning lessons
(specifically periods in text captions)? I’ve heard from fellow writers that periods can be difficult to view in a caption, but I have had no issue with viewing them in produced simulations. Can you provide any further insight?
(specifically periods in text captions)? I’ve heard from fellow writers that periods can be difficult to view in a caption, but I have had no issue with viewing them in produced simulations. Can you provide any further insight?
Answer:
There is no rule when it comes to punctuation–it’s really a personal choice. The only rule would be to remain consistent–either use end of sentence punctuation or don’t. Personally, I only use end of sentence punctuation if there is more than one sentence.