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USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5
Noninteractive Objects and Media
Last updated 4/22/2010
• Thickness (width) of the stroke
• Arrowheads, circles, diamonds, or squares at the ends of a line
You can set the following stroke and fill properties for the other drawing objects:
• Fill color
• Transparency of the fill color
• Style of the stroke, such as dashes or dots
• Color of the stroke
• Width of the stroke
• Corners of the object: You can smooth the corners of a rectangle or square to varying degrees by changing the values
for its corner radius.
To change the stroke color of object to black, and its fill color to white, click Set Stroke/Fill To Black/White in the
Drawing toolbar.
To interchange the color options set for the stroke and fill for the object, click Swap Fill/Stroke Colors.
Resize drawing objects
• To manually resize objects, use the selection tool. Adobe Captivate does not have a separate transformation tool.
You can resize any object after selecting it. Move the cursor over the corners of objects, and when the relevant
cursor appears, resize the object to the required dimensions.
• To resize an object to specific dimensions, select the object, and change the dimensions in the Stage toolbar.
Edit free-form polygons
When you edit the free-form polygon, the sides of the polygon are displayed along with the connecting nodes. You can
alter the shape of the polygon by dragging the nodes. The clarity provided by this skeletal structure is especially useful
when editing complex polygons.
1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the free-form polygon and then select Edit Points.
2 The skeletal structure of the polygon is displayed.
3 Drag the required nodes.
4 To restore the fill and stroke, click outside the polygon.
To redraw a selected polygon, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the object and then select Redraw
Shape.
Duplicate drawing objects
❖ Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the object and then select Duplicate.
Place text inside drawing objects
1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the object, and then select Add Text.
2 Add text in the text area that appears within the object, and use the Character area of the Properties Inspector
(Window > Properties) to format the text.
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