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kerrit4885885
kerrit4885885
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November 25, 2015
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How do I add new fonts to Adobe Captivate?

  • November 25, 2015
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How do I import new fonts to Adobe Captivate?

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    Mr Fossy
    Inspiring
    November 26, 2015

    Any fonts installed on your system should be available to use. They are for me, at least!

    The trickier part is making sure they display as intended (or at all) for your end users, because captivate doesn't package fonts when you export. (There is a post-export CSS workaround for this, I understand). So if you export to HTML5 from a responsive project, your custom fonts won't display unless your user has them.

    However, ff you export to HTML from a blank project, all text is converted into pngs and should display correctly. If you export to swf from a blank project, they should also display as intended.

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    November 26, 2015

    Be aware though that responsive projects work differently to ordinary HTML5 projects.  So text captions are not necessarily turned into images there and that means non-websafe fonts may not appear for end users.

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      Mr Fossy
      Inspiring
      November 26, 2015

      Yeah? Crikey, I hadn't noticed. Some of my Helvetica Neue content has probably been switched with Arial without me realizing! That'll drive me crazy.

      Then it really is safer to stick with the web-safes across the board. Components with specific typographic requirements (e.g. logos) can always be rendered as SVGs or images, I suppose.

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