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jamills1974
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October 20, 2016
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Captivate 9 issues with text when importing from PowerPoint

  • October 20, 2016
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Hey all,

Just got Captivate 9 and am trying to get the imported PowerPoint formatted correctly. I edit the PowerPoint from the Library and it looks fine in the PowerPoint environment within Captivate. However, when I got back to the "Filmstrip" or preview the presentation, the formatting is screwed up. Indents are not indented, bullets are off, etc.

Can anyone provide some guidance?  Thanks!

Jason

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Correct answer Jefferbob12055564

One thing I've often seen with indentions missing (especially in bulleted lists) after the import is when there's a mix of indented/bulleted lines and non-indented/bulleted lines in the same text block - especially if the block starts with non-indented/bulleted lines. The only solution I've found is to break the block into multiple blocks before importing. It's a pain, but it works.

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BDuckWorks
BDuckWorks
Inspiring
October 20, 2016

Have you actually published the file?

Cp generates a warning when the resolution of Cp is different from the PPT slides, and informs you that the resolution may be poor in the authoring window, but will be restored upon publishing.

What they don't say is that the low-resolution import may cause alignment problems during authoring, causing you to add trial and error (change - publish - review - repeat) methods to your development workflow.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Brainiac
October 20, 2016

@BDuckWorks Thanks for this information. You know already that I use Powerpoint for presentations but never import it in Captivate. It is never a good idea to import PPT slides with a different resolution as the original presentation. Captivate will calculate the resolution in pixels, because for a weird reason PPT has size in print units (in or cm). If you choose another resolution, this will always decrease the quality.

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Brainiac
October 20, 2016

Hi there

If you really want your Captivate to look identical to the PPT, you need to seriously consider abandoning the notion that you can import the PPT into Captivate. You might consider doing that for the sole purpose of having the PPT deck added to the Captivate library. That would keep the PPT deck handy for future editing.

The only way I'm aware of to totally achieve the exact look of your PPT is to present the PPT as if you were presenting to an audience, then use Captivate to record that presentation as you move through it. If you are using the slide by slide capture mode, you should have exactly what you see. Same goes if you are using Video Demo mode.

Any import process performs a conversion from one format to another and that's always a possibility for unwanted changes to manifest.

Cheers... Rick

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