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SilviaPhilbrick5
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May 21, 2018
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Preserve formatting when copying text from Illustrator/Photoshop

  • May 21, 2018
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Hi,

From what I have read, I should be able to copy text from Illustrator (CC 2018) and paste it into a Captivate (2017) slide and have it automatically preserve the formatting from Illustrator. Instead it is just pasting as whatever default style Captivate is set to. Is there a way to change this? I am currently copying the text into a text caption box. Am I doing this wrong, is there another way to paste text? If I just copy paste without creating a text caption, it pastes as an image. Which is nice but not what I want.

Thanks!

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
May 21, 2018

Illustrator and Photoshop are both Graphics applications. If you want to keep all the formatiting, export as an image or a svg to be used in Captivate. I don't know where you got that information about formatting of text?

As is also the case in a desktop publisher lik InDesign, you text formatting in Captivate is done using object styles, buth for text captions and for shapes used as text containers. As in PS and AI you can use Typekit fonts in Captivate, and use them to create object styles for text containers.

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    SilviaPhilbrick5Author
    Participant
    May 21, 2018

    Thank you, that is helpful. I had the impression if you copied text from any source it would preserve the formatting, but I must have been mistaken. I'm hopeful at some point Adobe will integrate Captivate into CC or at least improve the workflow between cc apps and Captivate. So much potential!

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    May 21, 2018

    There is a perfect roundtripping between a PS source file and Captivate. You can edit SVG's directly in Illustrator, you can edit audio files directly in Audition, all from Captivate's Library. You can use PhoneGap from within Captivate to create a mobile app. What is missing? It is this integration with CC applications which is for me the reason why it stands out from all concurrent tools. But don't count on CP being included in the CC, it has a totally different licensing structure and is not considered to be 'creative'.

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