Adobe Captivate 3 Question: What's the Best Way to Add Multiple Audio Clips?
I'm building an eLearning course in Captivate and need to import dialog for each slide. Each character's dialog is in a single file in Audacity. I can export the Audacity audio segments one at a time, but that seems awfully slow and tedious. Is the a way to copy and paste audio in each slide?
Answer
If the audio clips are external files, and stored in the same folder, the fastest way to add them to your Captivate project follows:
- Open a Captivate project
- Open any slide
- Display the Library (View > Show Library menu)
- Click the Import button at the top of the Library
- Select and import as many audio clips as you'd like
- Drag the audio clips to the slide thumbnails on the Edit tab (there is no reason to open a slide to attach the audio-a simple drag and drop from the library to the slide will do)
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Adobe Captivate 3 Question: How Can I Get the [Tab] Shortcut to Work in a Web Browser?
I'm trying to create a simple simulation in Captivate where the user types in a text-entry box, then presses [Tab] to go to the next field and make another entry. In essence, it's the [Tab] keystroke that is saying "go to the next slide."
I know how to create the text-entry boxes, and how to set [Tab] as the shortcut key. My problem is that it works as I expect in Preview, but it fails when it's published.
In the published version (running in IE), it appears that IE is somehow "hijacking" that [Tab] keystroke–the focus jumps up to the Address bar in the IE toolbar/menu-bar. When the user presses [Tab] again, the slide advances as it should. (Sure, I can tell everybody to 'tab twice,' but why???)
Can you help? Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? Or is this some kind of "improvement" in Captivate 3.
Answer
The problem with the [Tab] key isn't within Captivate–you are doing the steps correctly. The problem is that IE grabs the [Tab] key as part of its operating process. You can edit the HTML file that is created when you publish a SWF that will reclaim the [Tab] key. Here is a Web page offering background information on the problem and step-by-step instructions for the workaround.
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Adobe RoboHelp Question: How Does RoboHelp Work with InDesign?
Can you output RoboHelp to InDesign / CS3?
Answer:
Nope. You can output (single source) from RoboHelp to MS Word. From there, you could import the Word document into InDesign. If you are trying to import your content from InDesign to RoboHelp, you can save your InDesign documents as Word documents, and then import the Word documents into RoboHelp.
Instead of Adobe InDesign, you might want to consider Adobe's Technical Communication Suite and use a FrameMaker to RoboHelp workflow. In that scenario you would import the FrameMaker content into RoboHelp. Changes made to the FrameMaker content are reflected in the RoboHelp project without the need to update content manually in multiple locations.
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Adobe RoboHelp 7 Question: Why Would Spaces Be Missing in Highlight Searches?
I've had an interesting issue come up after updating files to our project using RoboHelp 7 that didn't occur in prior versions and I wonder if you have come across it or if there is a fix for it.
When you search for a file using the Search function and DO NOT select the Highlight option the page displays correctly.
When you search for the same file and select the Highlight option, the page displays with spaces missing between some of the words. Any ideas how to fix the problem?
When you search for the same file and select the Highlight option, the page displays with spaces missing between some of the words. Any ideas how to fix the problem?
Answer:
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