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USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5

Noninteractive Objects and Media

Last updated 4/22/2010

Edit rollover area

Rollover captions and rollover images consist of a caption or image and a rollover area (the “hot” area). The rollover

area defines where the mouse must be for the caption or image to appear.

1 Open an Adobe Captivate project.

2 Select the slide containing the rollover caption or image.

• To change the size of the rollover area, click one of the handles and drag.

• To move the rollover area to another location, move the mouse over the rollover area until the hand cursor

appears. Drag the box to the desired location.

• To modify the rollover area attributes, select the rollover area make the required changes in the Properties

Inspector (Window > Properties).

• Customize the following for the rollover area in the Properties Inspector if required:

Stroke Stroke color for the rollover area.

Fill Fill color for the rollover area. To decide the degree of transparency for the fill color, select a value for the

option Alpha in the Color menu. The value of 90% is less transparent (more solid) than a value of 10%.

Width Thickness of the border of the rollover area.

Fill Outer Area Select this option to fill the area outside the boundaries of the rollover area with the color

selected in Fill Color. When you choose this option, the area within the rollover area is not colored.

Note: You can observe the fill color around the rollover area only when you preview or publish the project.

The other tabs in the Properties dialog box are similar to those for text captions. See “Text captions” on page 63

for more information.

Convert tooltips to rollover captions

When you record a new project or record additional slides for an existing project, you can set a recording option that

requires Adobe Captivate to convert tooltips to rollover captions. When this option is selected, Adobe Captivate

creates a rollover caption for every tooltip that is selected during the recording process.

Converting tooltips to rollover captions is an easy way to automatically create an appropriate and descriptive caption

for action taking place in a project.

1 In an open project, select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS).

2 In the Preferences dialog box, select Modes in the Recording menu.

3 Select Convert Tooltips to Rollover Captions.

4 Click OK.

5 Click Record to begin recording a new project and automatically converting tooltips to rollover captions.

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