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October 10, 2014
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Adobe Captivate 8 Responsive design not working properly

  • October 10, 2014
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Hi. I'm using Adobe Captivate 8 on Windows 7. Is anyone else having problems with the Responsive design?

When I preview or publish a project, indented text and bullet points all end up left-aligned. All the text on a bullet point is aligned to the left (wrapping around the bullet point), rather than justified next to the bullet point. Even when viewing the output on a resolution identical to the resolution of the project, all the elements are re-arranged, as if it's trying to resize the project (the point of the Responsive design) to a different-sized screen; however, the re-arrangement is terrible - things end up off the side of the project, overlapping each other and/or the wrong size.

What's more, Responsive projects can only be outputted as HTML 5, and Captivate HTML 5 output only works correctly on Internet Explorer (and only newer versions).

So, essentially, the Responsive design is completely unusable. Considering it is meant to be a major selling point of the program, and it's the reason the company I work for bought it, I find the situation completely ridiculous. The state of the program is pathetic, and it hasn't even been patched.

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    IDarin
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2015

    Here is a workaround I found for maintaining indented bullets in preview and publishing.

    1. Create a style for your bulleted text
    2. Create a Text Caption and use the bulleted text style
    3. Create your list including item to be indented
    4. Select item to be indented and remove bullet
    5. At beginning of item, type w and space
    6. Select w and change font to Wingdings
    7. Select whole line of text and click indent three times
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    jeanrouge
    Inspiring
    November 7, 2014

    What ever you do, do not install that patch at it is a major piece of fecal matter. Let me explain:

    If you have question pool quizzes in your project and those quizzes have images, all your images will go puff. Yes PUFF as in dissapear completely. Also any custom button you may have created to replace the ugly default quiz button will disappear. Justifying text does work but any quiz you have is broken.

    Conclusion if you do not use quizzes with question pools you are fine, but if you have them with custom images and custom buttons you are out of luck.

    It is truly amazing that a company like Adobe delivers a product to their customers that is broken. Until this issue is fixed my company is at a virtual stand still. I just had my first App approved from apple and was so excited to release the big one just to find out I am out of luck.

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    ellian02
    Participant
    November 6, 2014

    Yes, I am having the same problem, as are others. I know a couple have entered bug reports, but I do not know when it will be resolved. I would love anyone's helpful tips on what they have done as a workaround (short of creating separate text captions for each intended bullet.)

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    aren
    Participating Frequently
    November 7, 2014

    Hi

    I hope you have upgraded to the latest captivate version 8.0.1.242. If not please follow the steps mentioned on this post Adobe Captivate Help | Adobe Captivate 8 patch. Make sure to remove layouts and preferences as mentioned in the link.

    There is an issue with text in case of multi-hierarchal bullets but apart from that other things should work fine. You might just have to change some position parameters to fix the results. Can you please share the project, so that I can reproduce the issues at my end. My email address is aren@adobe.com . You can send it via email or drop box.

    Captivate responsive output works for multiple browsers. Please check the link Tech Specs - eLearning, mobile learning & Training Software | Adobe Captivate 8 for details.

    Regards

    Tamish

      windscorpion
      windscorpion
      Inspiring
      October 10, 2014

      Yes i've right justified text in CP8 but when its outputted its all left aligned instead, why i got no idea as its not exactly bleeding edge CSS...

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      jeanrouge
      Inspiring
      October 10, 2014

      Yes I have the same problem. The problem is with justified text. Once published the text becomes aligned left and not justified anymore.

      For what I have seen during my research justify is only supported on IE 5 and newer.

      So it appears that the only fault Adobe has is to not let people know that this is currently a problem.

      That said I am not a genius when it comes to code so I might be wrong...

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