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Anonymous
February 9, 2016
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PDF and Captivate

  • February 9, 2016
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Captivate v5.5

Situation: I have a colleague who has a series of PDF documents that their people are required to read in order to inform / raise awareness. Now they want to use Captivate to test their knowledge after having read the various PDFs and our LMS  and to record their participation activity.

They want each individual page of the PDF documents to be on individual captivate slides - so creating a multi slide project per PDF document.

If the training material was in PowerPoint I know it is simple to import PPT into Captivate - but we are talking PDF!

The only way I can see their objective being met is to copy / paste each page of the PDF document onto individual Captivate slides and creating a test at the end of the project.

I know Captivate is not designed to import PDF but just thought I would reach out to the community in case anyone has a smart solution or suggestion.

I hope I have explained the situation clearly and look forward to any replies.

NEL

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Correct answer Captiv8r

Hi Noel

Yeah, I'm not aware of any other way to do it. Either screen capture pages of the PDF and insert as images or copy the text and paste into containers (Text Captions or Smart Shapes).

Cheers... Rick

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BDuckWorks
BDuckWorks
Inspiring
September 30, 2016

Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party...

The PDF can be saved as to image files, PNG or JPG from Adobe Acrobat Pro.

(This also works for images in Word, or PPT can be exported to images too!)

(I'd recommend you try exporting a page or two as a test, play with screen resolution in the PDF and save as. In Cp the resolution will allow display of the full page without loss of resolution.)

These files can be imported, or dragged, to the Cp library of an existing project.

I don't believe that there is a magical way to create a slide for each image in the library, but I could use one!

D
Dondon_Hanem
Participating Frequently
September 10, 2017

Hi all

I would really appreciate it if I can see a pdf page converted as an image. It is important to know how good or bad the resolution is before I buy the pro version of Adobe Reader.

thank you in advance

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
September 10, 2017

Please, why do you not post this in the Acrobat or Adobe Reader forum?

Captiv8r
Captiv8rCorrect answer
Legend
February 9, 2016

Hi Noel

Yeah, I'm not aware of any other way to do it. Either screen capture pages of the PDF and insert as images or copy the text and paste into containers (Text Captions or Smart Shapes).

Cheers... Rick

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