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CMBat42
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December 5, 2015
Question

Captivate 9 Publish to HTML5 issues

  • December 5, 2015
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I have been using Captivate since 6 and love it. Upgraded to 9 recently and did my usual. I create a project from a Powerpoint, it uploads the Powerpoint, and I record audio for each slide.

I then Publish. I prefer to go to HTML5 and everything worked fine with Captivate 8 with this. But now, even though my project previews fine, and even though it also works fine if I publish to SWF instead, when I go to HTML5 and play it, each slide gets progressively bigger and cropped off the visual screen. Here's an example, just watch the first four slides, takes only a few seconds:

http://www.tradesight.com/mentoring/forex_userp9mz/forex_mentoring_module_3a/index.html

I have recorded two 1-hour projects before I noticed this. I don't want to use SWF. I'm hoping there is a fix or setting that can fix this.

Any help appreciated.

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M00rtZ
M00rtZ
Inspiring
December 7, 2015

Hmmm. If I am not mistaken, you should check both the html box AND the flash box when you're publishing for this to work. Once it is done, just open the index.html and never mind the .swf file.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
December 7, 2015

@M00rtZ There is no reason to do that, it is only meant to publish for situations where you want Captivate to detect the used device/browser and to offer the best version (SWF or HTML).

@CMBat42 I did see what happens but cannot tell you the cause. Certainly for HTML5 output I would NEVER start from PPT conversion at all. Each slide from PPT is converted to a movie slide. You are the first to show this kind of issue, because my answer is not helping you, I'm aware of that. As you probably can see, I'm around on this forum daily. Did you also test Preview in HTML Browser before publishing? Did you see the same problem?

M00rtZ
M00rtZ
Inspiring
December 7, 2015

Lilybiri wrote:

@M00rtZ There is no reason to do that, it is only meant to publish for situations where you want Captivate to detect the used device/browser and to offer the best version (SWF or HTML).

@CMBat42 I did see what happens but cannot tell you the cause. Certainly for HTML5 output I would NEVER start from PPT conversion at all. Each slide from PPT is converted to a movie slide. You are the first to show this kind of issue, because my answer is not helping you, I'm aware of that. As you probably can see, I'm around on this forum daily. Did you also test Preview in HTML Browser before publishing? Did you see the same problem?

Thanks, I do know it works like that. But In many cases, for me, Captivate sometimes acts weird and destroys everything when I publish only in html or only in flash (all over the place elements, play bar having a stroke or just a different play bar than the one I chose as the only element in my published work). The only way I found to fix that bug was to publish in both format.

As if I was suggesting something just "because"... Thanks for helping people out though, you magnificent know-it-all beast.

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