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ScottDMC
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June 23, 2016
Question

Turning Off the Highlight Boxes When Printing

  • June 23, 2016
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To direct the viewer's attention to a particular place on the screen when discussing features, I have been using highlight boxes and arrows.

When I print the material as supplement to my training or as training material so the participants can have hard-copy, the highlight boxes show the word Highlight Box, which sometimes obstructs a portion of the visual beneath it.

It would be nice if there was a way to turn-off the highlight boxes when printing.

It would allow the single sourcing of content for e-learning and e-learning supplemental training material.

Can this be done or can we put this in as an enhancement for the next release?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 23, 2016

You are free to log a feature request, but have to tell you that I never did see such a question. Printing has never been a priority for Captivate. Maybe I can offer you a workaround? I suppose that you have a default style for the Highlight boxes? Why not create another style that you can set as style before printing: for that style you set the fill of the HL to 0% Alpha and the stroke width to 0px. It is easy to apply that style to all objects with the default highlight box style. After printing, you'll switch back to the original style.

This is the link to the feature request form: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

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ScottDMCAuthor
Participant
June 23, 2016

I will try this,  In the interim, I created a smart shape with the same opacity as the highlight box.

This solves the over-type of HB on the objects.

RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 24, 2016

If you currently have your Print options set to Include Objects and Questions, then you can affect WHICH objects will show up on the print handout by just using the small 'eye' icon column on their timeline layer.  Objects that have a red X beside them on the layer will not show up on the print handout. 

So, all I do before creating print handouts is go through the slides quickly and turn off any objects I don't want to see.  They still appear fine in the published HTM output, just not for printing.

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