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September 12, 2019
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Edit SVGs in the Update 2 of the 2019 release of Captivate

  • September 12, 2019
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Speed up your authoring by drastically reducing the number of steps required to use images as buttons in your eLearning course. Captivate allows you to add any image or an SVG to your course and directly use it as a button.

 

Define actions or advanced actions and assign them to the button in a few simple steps.

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LuisXIV
LuisXIV
Participating Frequently
September 14, 2019

1) - Learn the basic of SVG.

2) - Read a couple of articles by Sara Soueidan

https://theblog.adobe.com/author/soueidan/

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/tags/svg/

Luis

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
September 14, 2019
I am nt at all new to Illustrator, just that I preferred Photoshop in recent years. I am getting up to speed by watching all tutorials about new features and Deke's Techniques in LinkediIn Learning.
LuisXIV
LuisXIV
Participating Frequently
September 14, 2019
Hello Lilybiri, I am not referring to you. I forgot to mention Sara Drasner. The new forum is very confusing.
NewMavens
NewMavens
Inspiring
September 12, 2019

What I'd really like to see is support for native Illustrator files, with SVG conversion not happening until final publishing.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
September 12, 2019
There is no real support for PSD files neither but a great roundtripping. I don't know if it is really necessary to have a similar roundtripping for AI files, with its great workflow for exporting assets.
Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
September 12, 2019

Only rather simple SVGs can be edited in Captivate, and only the Fill, never the stroke. But roundtripping with Adobe Illustrator is really easy, which allows full control over editing SBGs. More important is the fact that you can restrict the clickable area of a SVG to the SVG itself instead of the usual boundary box. Padding in the bouncary box can also be very useful. I created two examples where the restriction of the clickable area was used, which was impossible before this version 11.5:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/svgs-for-color-based-quiz

http://blog.lilybiri.com/svgs-for-custom-hotspot-question

tracyprevite
tracyprevite
Participating Frequently
June 21, 2024

I wish we could round trip with Note Pad. I am able to "Edit with Note Pad", but it will not save to the proper file in order to make the change globally. Unless we can I and I will keep researching. I keep running into having to "save as" in a differnt location which is not helpful. My goal is to clean up the SVG code so that it will run more smoothly (I am hoping it will get rid of the slow to load or flicker when the learner lands on the slides that these SVGs are on.

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