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Creating autotext captions in your own language

Macromedia Captivate is a fantastic tool that lets you capture your screen and add text captions that give the viewer visual cues about the steps in a demonstration.

One option that can improve your workflow is called autotext captions. When active, Macromedia Captivate automatically creates and inserts captions based on the screen action that you perform and the result of that action (for example: you click a menu item and a window opens).

Macromedia Captivate comes with ten language options for the autotext captions: English, German, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Korean, Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified. If your language isn't on this list (as, in my case, Portuguese), or if you want to change the text or behaviors of autotext captions, you can personalize this option. This article shows you how.

Important note (updated on 6/18/07): Due to a recently discovered bug, you must save your language file with one of the following names to have it appear in the language drop down box:

CaptureTextTemplates_Portuguese.rdl
CaptureTextTemplates_Dutch.rdl

As another option, you can choose the name of an already existing language file you are not using.

This bug has been fixed in Adobe Captivate 3.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Macromedia Captivate 1.01

• Try
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Sample files:

• portuguese_rdl.zip (ZIP, 2K)

Notepad (or any text editor)

Prerequisite Knowledge

A basic knowledge of Macromedia Captivate and of XML

 

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