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August 17, 2021
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SVG Text elements in Captivate 2019

  • August 17, 2021
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Hi, for slides with lots of text elements using the Captivate Text Caption elemet, my Captivate 2019/OSX was getting quite bogged down. Some slide may have a dozen or more separate text elements. I need to keep the text elements as text so they can be translated to another language later on down the line for other customers. I was going to use Adobe Illustrator to create all the unique text items, import the SVG files into the Captivate library, then place them on the slide. Then later on, another Captivate person would open that Captivate file, click on the desired text piece, check Edit with Adobe Illustrator, and Edit SVG to edit it to read whatever they wanted.  There are a few ways to get an SVG file from an Illustrator file. There is Save As, Export for Screens, Export As, and Save for Web (Legacy), and all have some user selectable settings in addition to the default that pops up. Is there a guide out there so I can make an informend choice as to how to make my SVG files?

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Brainiac
    August 18, 2021

    Personally I always use the Assets export functionality, often to save both as SVG and PNG. Of course I am talking about Illustrator files from which I select parts to save as individual images.  It isi n reality similar to Export for Screens. 

     

    I don't understand why you use Illustrator, especially for translation but that is off topic.

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    Jihn5CBBAuthor
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    August 18, 2021

    Some slides need to  have 12 or more individual text elements placed on them. If I make all that text for my slide using Captivate Text Caption elements, that many Captivate text elements brings Captivate to its knees. Making the text in Illustrator, and bringing it in as SVG files was a way to make my life easier rather than waiting for extended periods of time watching the beachball spin while Captivate processes. Sometimes it's anywhere from 10 minutes to a half an hour. Our systems guy has verified our Macs have adequate processing power, so it's a Captivate/OSX  issue.

     

    Being able to keep all these separate editable text is necxessary for later translation. How else could I do this?

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    Jihn5CBBAuthor
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    August 18, 2021

    The setup for the SVGs used to be important in older versions of Illustrator, but you can use the workflow you prefer as shown in the screenshot. Apparently you do not have an Illustrator file where all the text is on artboards and/or layers, but you are using the roundtripping CP-AI for each text element individually.

    I use the Assets panel in AI to choose multiple assets to be exported in one workflow to SVG (and eventually to other formats), but if my suspicion is correct (see above) about individual editing of each text element, that is not relevant. You can discuss what is the most efficient workflow, but just answering your question: your workflow is fine.


    Thanks, I appreciate it. Also, the individual elements have to be individual files placed rather than one large one with text spaced about as I use the time line to make them appear at different time intervals.

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