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USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5
Slides
Last updated 4/22/2010
Editing background images
Adobe Captivate provides an easy way to copy slides to the clipboard. You can then paste the slide into a graphics
editing program (for example, Fireworks® or Photoshop), edit the image, and then paste it back into Adobe Captivate.
This is especially useful when you want to make a small change to a recorded slide but do not want to rerecord it.
1 In Edit view in an open project, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the slide that you want to copy.
2 Select Copy Background from the menu.
3 Open a graphics editing program and paste the slide into the program by pressing Control+V.
4 Make any desired changes to the slide.
5 Copy the image in the graphics program by pressing Control+C so the image is saved to the clipboard.
6 In Adobe Captivate, select the slide that you had copied, and select Edit > Paste As Image.
The new, updated slide (as an image) is placed in the project. If the original slide contained objects such as captions or
highlight boxes, they appear on the new slide.
You can edit background images directly from the Library. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the
image you want to edit, and select the image editor from the menu.
Add plain text to a slide
As you edit a project, you may want to add some text to the slide but not have the text appear as a text caption over the
slide. There is an easy trick you can use to add plain text to a slide: simply add the text as a transparent text caption.
1 Open the slide on which you want to insert the text caption.
2 Select Insert > Standard Objects > Text Caption.
3 In the Properties inspector, select Transparent as the Caption Type in the General area.
Note: If you create a transparent caption, avoid underlining text. Underlined text might affect the quality of the text.
Edit text recorded on a slide
When you record text being typed, a new slide is created for every line break. Each line of typed text is treated as a
single object and appears as a separate layer on the Timeline. You can replace text recorded on a slide with new text
along with typing effects. For example, if you have recorded text being typed in an editing program and you want to
change the recorded text on the slide later, you can use this option.
Before you record text being typed, ensure that the option to record keystrokes has been enabled. For more
information, see “Set global recording preferences” on page 33.
1 In an open project, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the Typing layer in the Timeline, and select
Replace With Text Animation.
2 Select one of the options in the Effect menu:
Typing Text Play text without any typing sound.
Typing Text With Sound Play text with a typing sound.
3 In the Text box, type the replacement text on the slide, and then click OK.
The text on the slide is replaced with the entered text. In the Timeline, the typing text object is replaced with the
text animation object, and the overwritten text appears on the object in the Timeline.
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