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Loulers
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May 6, 2010
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Can I open a Captivate .exe from a RoboHelp output?

  • May 6, 2010
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Hi all

I'd really appreciate some advice on working with RoboHelp and Captivate (in the Tech Comms Suite). I have to revamp the training course for our application and I'm wanting to create the videos in Captivate (to create a simulation of the application) and then pull them all together in RoboHelp. As it's a complicated engineering application, there will be multiple tasks for each module.

The application is set to a full screen size of 1024 x 768 so, in order to see the whole screen, I'd like the Captivate videos to play in full screen mode.

Having searched the forums, I've found out that I can't launch a Captivate .exe from WebHelp but it may be possible to launch it from HTML Help.

Can anyone offer any advice for a complete beginner?!

Thanks, in great anticipation!

Loulers

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    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
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    May 6, 2010

    Hi Loulers.

    You don't need to launch the captivate.exe file in order to include your Captivate movies inside the help. You may want to check out this link in the help which explains what you need to do.

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    LoulersAuthor
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    May 6, 2010

    Hi Colum

    Thanks for such a quick reply. I've gone through the link and it is really useful but unfortunately, the captivate movie is still shown in a frame so you need to use the scroll bars to see all parts of the application that's been recorded.

    I'm now looking at embedded the .swf files into a PDF so that I can use the 'full screen' option that's available within the PDF.

    Thanks for you help.

    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    May 6, 2010

    Another option is to host the SWF files on a central location (e.g. server) and hyperlink to them from your RH project. This would enable you to open the simulations in a new browser window and run them in full screen mode.

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