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Quality of publish projects

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
December 18, 2018
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Hello!

I have a problem that never happened before with me regarding captivate. I start a project from a power point presentation and added some interactive processes. However, when I publish it, the quality of image is not good. It is blurred and almost painful to read the text. I have already selected high quality in publish settings, but this didn't seem to change the final quality.

Does anybody has an idea of what can I do? This is a very important project to me, and I am afraid for this bad quality.

Thanks in advance!

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msta74251897

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Hi there,

I've just started a trial on Captivate & have exactly the same issue - everything is blurry.

I spoke with the Adobe CS rep today who had a look at my laptop... he adjusted all the settings, but still no/little improvement.

It wasn't until he adjusted the display settings on my desktop (from 150% to 100%) that it was much improved (but still not incredibly sharp). I have a new small (13") laptop & I can't work at 100% as everything is tiny. HP has 150% as my recommended setting because of this. So, unless I'm working at home & can connect to a large screen, I can't use Captivate.

I'm deciding between Captivate & Articulate right now... will check Articulate as this issue is a game changer for me.

I wish you luck with it!

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funny_fashion5CFA

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As mentioned to RodWard, Thank you for your replies on this issue. They have helped but do not address a fundamental issue that quality of output from Adobe Captivate is complex and remains below par even after those technical difficulties have been surmounted. I am also having similar issues regarding poor quality after publishing in Adobe Captivate and have followed your kind advice rigorously. Please let me mention from the outset that I am certainly not a perfectionist. I do not wish to digress in any way but your criticsm of the previous user in this way really is not helpful. The issue is the limitation of Adobe Captivate in that it cannot produce quality output. The user has reasonable expectations that Adobe Captivate should be able to publish in a reasonable and non-blurry way and it does not. The blurriness may once have been acceptable but is not any longer. I am genuinely disappointed that having purchased Adobe Captivate that the quality of output is this poor and this is after spending days trying to fix a variety of Adobe Catpivate issues and also to try and improve the publishing quality. I need to find an alternative. Regards

RodWard

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Can you please show screenshots of the issue you are seeing?

Was the size of the PPT stage at all similar to the size of the Captivate stage area? What I am asking is, are you scaling the size of the project up or down? That can often degrade the crispness of images and text.

Either way, if you spend much time on this forum you will hear many people say that using PowerPoint to start any project in Captivate is not a good idea.

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ericaverzaAuthor

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Hi, I have an extensive project, in which I need to add interactive buttons. If I start directly from Captivate it will take really long to do it, since I also do not know how to edit everything as in power point. I am not sure about the size. In pptx, I see that it is 220 ppi. In captivate, the size is 1280 x 720. Below you can see the quality of the image. In this case it is even ok, but there are some parts where you almost can't read it at all. But even if it was only like the images below, I would be already unsatisfied, since it does not look professional.

Do you know what can I do?

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ericaverzaAuthor

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Het mag wel eens in het Nederlands, deze fora hebben toch een vertaalfunctie.

Ik sluit me volledig aan bij Rod's standpunt. De slechtste manier om een eLearning cursus te make is te starten met een PPT. Ik gbruik geen schroevendraaier om een gaatje to boren, maar een boormachine.

PP¨T slides importeren in Captivate is alle mogelijke interactiviteit iperken, want elke PPT slide wordt omgezet in ee movie slide, waar je geen controle meer hebt over de individuele objecten. Het omzetten van de reolsutie is al een zware opdracht. Powerpoint is toch bedoeld om the presenteren met? Waarom worden de afmeting niet gedefineerd in pixels? Captivate stelt je normaal een resolutie voor die overeenstemt met wat die 'print' eenheden in PPT zouden moeten zijn in pixels. Als je dat voorstel niet aanvaardt zit je al met een eerste mogelijke oorzaak van wazige tekst.

Ik gebruik NOOIT PPT als start voor ee Captivate bestand, daarentegen gebruik ik wel Captivate om presentaties te maken. Je kan de ppt unzippen (hernoem de extensie naar zip) en de nodige assets recuperenen. Importeer die naar de bibiliotheek van een neiwu Captivate bestand en je kan aan de slag in Captivate, met alle mogelijke controle.

Hi Lilybiri,

I am doing a project in Dutch, but I do not speak Dutch (it is a long story). Could you explain me better how can I save the .ppt as zip? And how this can be imported as a captivate project? The file that I am working with is really big, and it would save me a lot of time if I could import some info directly.

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