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Anonymous
December 13, 2012
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My text appears choppy/cut off after making changes to an imported PPT. What can I do to fix this?

  • December 13, 2012
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Here's the situation:

I created a few slides in PPT (2007) with simple text animations. I created a captivate project using v 6. I imported the ppt slides into my captivate project (using high fidelity). Great. I realized I'm missing a few slides, so while my captivate project was open, I opened the original ppt project (not through captivate) and created my new slides and saved the file. I closed PPT. I then went back to my captivate project and inserted  new ppt pages and tried to import only the new slides.

When I preview the project, any slide to which I had made text changes in PPT appears choppy/cut off (see attached screenshot). I tried creating a brand new captivate project and importing all of the slides over again and still the same issue.

Steps I've taken to try to resolve this issue:

  • close all files and clear cache - nothing changed
  • Create a new captivate file and import the ppt slides. I copied the elements from my original captivate file to minimize rework - nothing changed
  • Relaunched the application - didn't do anything

Quesitons:

  1. What steps should I be taking if I ever need to create more slides in PPT?
  2. What steps do I need to take now to rectify the problem I'm having with my current project in captivate?

I would hate to have redo everything Your help would be greatly appreciated.

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SethXP
Inspiring
December 14, 2012

Hi,

You say "I created a few slides in PPT (2007) with simple text animations." Could you have accomplished the same thing (or very similar) in CP?

Also, going forward, you may find this be of help.

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2012/04/powerpoint-workflow-in-adobe-captivate-tips-and-tricks-part-1.html

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Anonymous
December 14, 2012

I wanted the bullets on the slide to appear one line at a time that's why I chose to create the slides in PPT. As far as I know this feature doesn't exist in Captivate.

What I found ended up fixing the problem is  creating a brand new ppt slide, with a brand new text box and typing in the list. The copy/paste appears to be one of the bugs that causes the cut off text. I created a new captivate project importing the PPT slides and when i confirmed it worked in preview, I copied the slide (in captivate) and brought it into my original project.

That's a lot of rework but now I know what to avoid.

Thank you for the link.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 14, 2012

In Captivate, if you want bullet points to appear one at a time, you just use multiple captions and space them out on the timeline.  Maybe not as slick as PPT, but it only takes a few moments to set up and is very easy to modify when you need to time it to voiceover.

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