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kend99603332
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October 9, 2017
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Fonts resize during caption export

  • October 9, 2017
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I am exporting Captivate 2017 captions to Word for the purpose of translation.  I noticed immediately that the font size in the Word document does not match the size of the captions in Captivate 2017, especially the Quiz questions.  The font size in Word is a bit smaller in most places than the Captivate project font sizes.   Has anyone run into this?   It's really going to make life difficult to manually resize captions in Word before re-importing them.

Thanks in advance for your assistance with this.

Ken

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    Correct answer RodWard

    Thanks Rod.  I am not trying to change font sizes in the exported captions file.   The issue is that the export/import process is changing the font sizes on its own and then I have to change them back by resetting the master slide.  I should not have to.  To recap:
    - The export changed the 14 pt fonts to 13 pt fonts in Word.
    - I changed one caption (no font sizes) in Word and then re-imported.
    - All of my fonts resized to 13 in the project because they took the font sizes from the Word doc.
    -  I had to reset master slides to inherit the Object Style Manager defaults. 
    All I really want to do is use the export/import for translations, nothing else.  This is not optimal.


    OK.  Well your previous descriptions did not indicate that you found the caption text resized AFTER reimporting back from Word.  That should not happen.  This sounds like a new bug to me and you should report it to Adobe using the Bug Reporting form linked to the Community website.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    October 10, 2017

    You will not import the formatting, which has been taken care of in Captivate which has its object styles (part of the theme). Word has his own styles, and is also meant essentially for printing, whereas Captivate is meant for web output. That is a big difference.

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 10, 2017

    When exporting to Word for translation, DON'T change anything about the formatting of the captions before re-importing after translation.  Leave them exactly as is otherwise you will mess up the formatting again when it gets back into Captivate.  The main objective is the translation of the text, NOT reformatting of the text.

    kend99603332
    kend99603332Author
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    October 10, 2017

    Thanks Rod, a couple of more details: I changed some of the default style fonts in the the Object Style Manager.  I modified the quiz multiple choice answers from at 12 to a 14 point Trebuchet MS Regular font.  Then I exported to Word.  I quickly noticed that the font in the Word document for those answers had changed from 14 to 13 point font just by virtue of the export.  That's the main issue I am trying to solve.  Now I re-imported to confirm that sure enough, my quiz answers now had a 13 point font.  I was able to restore them to 14 points by resetting the master slides, but I shouldn't have to do that.   It's the export that seems to cause the issue.  Thanks for any insight into this.

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    October 11, 2017

    Ignore what it says in MS Word.  Change NOTHING about the formatting.  The purpose of the export / import is purely for translation.  Mess with the formatting in Word and you risk having issues again when you reimport.  If the original text looks fine inside Captivate, what you should be concentrating on is whether reimporting the translated document (without changing anything other than the language) results in the newly translated version looking OK.  That's the most important thing.

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