http://captivatedfw.com A community of Adobe Captivate users in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:36:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     Host: Leslie Bivens (NEC, 114 & 161 in Irving, additional details coming) Topic: Captivate and audio best practices; narrative styles for scripting and text captions Format: everyone bring your best samples to share  The address for tonight's (6:30-7:30PM) meeting is 6536 N State Highway 161, Irving 75039-2402.  There are two buildings: the 5-story NEC ... http://captivatedfw.com/2008/09/02/meeting-announcement-tuesday-sept-9-2008/ Date/Time:Tuesday, July 8, 2008 6:30-7:30 PM Host: Dawn Fichtner - ReachLocal, Inc. Topic: Captivate 3 process workflow discussion Discussion Leader: Leslie Bivens Address: ReachLocal, Inc. 6400 Internation Parkway, Suite 2400 Plano, TX 75093 Map Directions: If coming from 190 (George Bush Turnpike): Take the Rosemeade Parkway exit, continuing right on Rosemeade Parkway. Turn left at Midway Rd. Continue on Midway until you ... http://captivatedfw.com/2008/05/21/meeting-announcement-july-8-2008/ The Captivate DFW Group is back in action! Changes to this site are coming soon. In the interim, check out our 2008 Meeting Schedule and make plans to attend! http://captivatedfw.com/2008/05/21/spring-cleaning/ That was fast! Here is a link to the press release. Is everyone upgrading to CP3 or are you completely satisfied with the current release? More to come... Walt http://captivatedfw.com/2007/07/23/adobe-captivate-3-available-late-summer/ Copying and pasting clipart from Powerpoint into Captivate is a quick and easy way to add images to your project. However, there are two things you need to remember: Open the copied image in Captivate and change the transparency layer from black to white. The WMF ... http://captivatedfw.com/2007/07/06/copying-and-pasting-clipart-from-powerpoint/ If you are the "try before you buy" type, here is your chance to check out most of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 products and editions. Click here to view the available trials.  You can download individual applications, or order a trial DVD of a suite for $10 ... http://captivatedfw.com/2007/05/08/adobe-cs3-trial-downloads-available-now/ Philip Hutchison (pipwerks.com) has written a great tutorial showing how to use Actionscript within Captivate SWFs to communicate with a Flash container. The tutorial includes diagrams, samples, and source files. Read about it here. http://captivatedfw.com/2007/05/03/making-actionscript-calls-from-adobe-captivate/ When the Advanced Interaction screen is open and you click an interaction (button, entry text, etc.), the selected interaction is highlighted on the storyboard menu. This is an easy way to verify which object's parameters are being set, when you have more than one interaction on a page. http://captivatedfw.com/2007/04/23/captivate-tip-of-the-week-advanced-interaction-screen/ Cannot select a Menu item in Captivate 2: After using Captivate 2 for some time, I noticed that the Captivate menu sometimes will flash instead of displaying when you click on any of the menus. I had been saving a closing my project until I got this tip from Walt Stewart. ... http://captivatedfw.com/2007/04/16/captivate-tip-of-the-week-recovering-from-menu-flicker/ From Paul Dewhurst's site: One of the Problems Captivate used to have was that if you used transparent captions then the text in the published movie would look blurred, In captivate 2 you can fix this problem and have nice crisp text all you need to do is select #C0C0C0 as ... http://captivatedfw.com/2007/03/19/8/