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gfran75001
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February 20, 2017
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Captivate 9 project - defaults to Times New Roman in Windows

  • February 20, 2017
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Hello,

Could anyone help me on how to ensure same font in my Captivate project and in the browser/LMS.

I've just asked someone to test my pages and all fonts have defaulted to Times New.

Thanks in advance.

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    No, I never used it in a Captivate project. I know this is limiting, and really cross my fingers that Typekit will be integrated in a future release of Captivate as it has been in other Adobe applications.

    Do you have 'dynamic text'? I mean text with inserted variables? For the other static text containers, a workaround is to convert the text to images, I will try to convert it to SVG because of file size. There is an example of text converted that way in this blog post:

    Playing with Captivate 9 - Captivate blog

    Look at the lightboxes: the text on the crazy backgrounds are created by exporting to SVG from Illustrator.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 20, 2017

    Captivate cannot embed fonts at this moment. You should choose a websafe font, especially if you are using text containers that have variables inserted; which have to be rendered on runtime. Same for the score slide of a quiz which has several system variables.

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    gfran75001Author
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    February 20, 2017

    Thanks.

    Captivate 9  has 6-7 websafe fonts but Century Gothic isn't one of them, even though it is considered web safe. Have you ever used Century Gothic?

    Thanks

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    February 20, 2017

    No, I never used it in a Captivate project. I know this is limiting, and really cross my fingers that Typekit will be integrated in a future release of Captivate as it has been in other Adobe applications.

    Do you have 'dynamic text'? I mean text with inserted variables? For the other static text containers, a workaround is to convert the text to images, I will try to convert it to SVG because of file size. There is an example of text converted that way in this blog post:

    Playing with Captivate 9 - Captivate blog

    Look at the lightboxes: the text on the crazy backgrounds are created by exporting to SVG from Illustrator.

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