Captivate 2019 and MacOS11 Big Sur

I'm running Captivate 2019 (11.5.5) on a Parallels VM under macOS Big Sur without that weird UI while a friend with his new MacBook couldn't get it out of the weirdness. Mine is an older MacBook Pro with Intel I7 CPU and 2 GPUs, his is a M1. Sound like there's another problem regarding the graphics, not just the macOS.

Has the issue with Big Sur been corrected? I tried to install Captivate on the iMac at work using Big Sur, and everytime I tried to click on an item in the interface it freaked out, just as the person in the above stated. The interface slid to the left and the workspace would not center. I was not able to draw a circle on the first page. I tried to edit the text and it would not let me. I have used Adobe for years and teach Adobe softwares at a college. I wanted to test this software to demonstrate to my boss to implement in course development and training materials that I use. Really disappointed... how can you help.

I wanted to drop in and suggest an option for my fellow Mac users. You can add a Bootcamp Windows partition and install one of your 3 Cp desktop licenses on the Windows side. It won't help with continuing to work with all the software you already have on the Mac side, but it has been my temporary workaround to continue working slowly, but surely, on my project. Please be advised that your Mac peripherals may not work on the Windows side (the Bluetooth Apple keyboard and mouse drop easily), so you may have to go old school and plug in a mouse or just use your laptop. 

Another portion may be to use Parallels, but I haven't tested that. Hopefully this helps until we receive a Mac update.

I use many niche software products that provide "advanced" development tools (Captivate, LabVIEW, etc). All are expensive because of their small customer base. The unfortunate thing is these same "advanced" software products also commonly profess ignorance when a new OS version is released that breaks their code. This is despite the fact that Apple releases versions of their new OS months in advance to developers like Adobe. One would imagine that the Adobe developers would have found the workspace bug if they had opened Captivate even once on a pre-release version of Big Sur. Obviously, the Captivate development team put zero effort into Big Sur before its release, which makes no sense because issues with the new OS have to be addressed at some point, so why wait and and only fix the problem after your user base has problems. Don't get me wrong, I love the Adobe family of products, but I would hope that this experience with Big Sur will prompt the Adobe managers to pay more attention to upcoming Mac OS releases. After all, the Captivate program attracts creative-type individuals, and they likely use the Mac in higher percentage than other business professionals.

I had the same issue late last year when Mohave (Catalina?) was released. (whichever is the last OS). I installed it and then suddenly Captivate wouldn't work. I didn't have a time machine backup on my corporate laptop so I lost all my data. Lesson learned. Now I've awkwardly signed synced my work laptop with my icloud account just so I don't lose anything. 

I would wait a few months to update your iOS if you want to use Captivate. It takes them a bit to make it compatible. Since Captivate isn't part of the creative cloud suite it's managed by a completely different branch of the company it seems. 

UPDATE - Besides the desktop problem - i couldn´t reach the Captivate update function to controll, if there is a newer version. Because of this problems i was forced to downgrade to Catalina with help of my timemachine backup. 😕😕