How to export Captivate to PDF without including flash elements

[Fred Schenkelberg]

Hi

I have a few Captivate created presentations that I deliver using Adobe Connect and it works great. Yet, the most common question is where to download the slides.

When publishing out of Captivate it does create a PDF file, which seems to embed the flash version of the captivate project, thus requiring the use of flash plugin within the acrobat pdf reader. Some have no problem with this while increasingly my audience is unable to view the 'slides'.

So, how can I create an export that is just a simple flat, nothing fancy, i.e. no flash necessary, set of the screens/slides?

Cheers,

Fred

[Lilybiri]

Try one of the options under File, Print. It will be a Word document that you can easily convert to a normal PDF, not an interactive one.

[Fred Schenkelberg]

Hi Lilybiri,

There are four options and only the storyboard renders the images, yet only as a thumbnail along with a bunch of meta data. The other options generate blank images.

I fear the best solution is to do screen shot of each 'slide' and paste into ppt... if I really want to create a flat presenation or pdf from this material.

Cheers,

Fred

[Lilybiri]

Handouts should have images. However, if someone insists on handouts, I use an InDesign tempalte myself. Largely prefer to send an URL to the published file on my domain, to preserve interactivity.

[Fred Schenkelberg]

Thanks Lilybiri - maybe it is something I'm doing in Captivate yet the handouts shows the background image or nothing for each image - not text, nothing from the template, etc.

When you say an InDesign template - do you recreate or create the handouts in addition to the Captivate file... or can you import the html 5 output into an ID file.

With your help I've sorted out how to embed CP html on my site, and that is working well. I don't use ID, so curious what benefit does that provide?

Cheers,

Fred

[RodWard]

These are the settings I use for Handouts.

If you don't see the Slide Notes text in the output, try selecting both Closed Captioning and TTS boxes on each slide as shown below.

[Lilybiri]

It is pretty rare that digital 'prints' are necessary, but some conferences where I presented required them. Personally I find that bit outdated because you cannot ever show interactivity in a digital print.  If I have to make them I largely prefer InDesign to Word, because of its way of handling images. That is the only reason, but IMO handouts should be replaced by a link to an interactive movie, even for presentations. This is a movie I created for a recent presentation about the Timeline, compared with the handouts they required, this movie is offering a lot more information than I ever can put in handouts.

Captivate's TImeline