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Imported PowerPoint Slides appear to shrink!

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July 8, 2010
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In the past two weeks I've notice that when I import slides from any PowerPoint presentation, they appear to shrink in size in both edit and storyboard view. When I preview the slides, they look absolutely fine.

This is proving to be a nightmare when trying to add captions etc to each slide!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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KellyPhillipsNC

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I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, so forgive me if this is already common knowledge. Adobe has created a fix for this issue! I've applied it

and it works. I did not have to uninstall Flash 10 first. I just applied it over the old version. I'm running Flash 10 and Captivate 4. It's an update to the link posted earlier, which is also in the frequently asked questions area of the forum.

Kelly

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NeedsHelp_37

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Yes, this same issue of the small size imported PowerPoint slides is happening to me, as well. I read the "solution" was to downgrade the Flash player. Too bad that's the only solution right now.

Captiv8r

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And the up side is that you have a means to change it if you wish to downgrade the player.

So at least there's a workaround! Yay!

While that may sound annoyingly optimistic I am sincere with it because with software you often see cases where no workaround really exists. You see cases where the only "workaround" is to hope and pray the dev team issues a service release soon to address it.

Cheers... Rick

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LadyGaladriel13Author

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Well, after much tinkering around with Flash Player and Active X controls, I can report that the workaround does work

I have rolled back to an earlier version of Flash - not and easy task when your computer group policy gets it the way!

I've tested out several different powerpoint slide imports and everything is back to normal again.

Thanks for all the advice and help.

LadyG

Captiv8r

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Hi there

See if the last item listed on the page linked below helps.

Click here to view

Cheers... Rick

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LadyGaladriel13Author

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Thanks Rick.

The link was useful but hasn't answered my question.

I was importing one or two slides into my captivate project and all was going as expected. I saved everything (in case of sudden, unexpected crashes) and then imported one more slide. The newly imported slide shrunk! I tried it again - same thing

The odd thing is that when I publish it or preview it, everything looks fine.

Cheers

LadyG

Captiv8r

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Hi again

My thought here is that the imported slide is an animation. These kinds of slides are often imported from PowerPoint because of animated builds in PPT. So if you have upgraded your Flash Player, the animation exhibits the behavior I pointed you to.

Further, perhaps you had one Captivate project that was created from a PPT without animation. In that case you would have static slides that didn't exhibit the behavior. But when you imported a PPT imported slide containing an animation, BANG! Things appear to fall apart.

And if this is the case, your choices are:

uninstall the newer version of the Flash Player/Plug In and install the recommended older version
learn to live with the fact your animation will appear smaller during edit but will be presented just fine when you publish

Cheers... Rick

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