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Adobe Captivate Article
Adobe RoboHelp 6 costars with Adobe Captivate 2
John Daigle
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Adobe Captivate demos show off in a RoboHelp project
- Introducing Playbar Skins: New functionality and greater design flexibility
- Tutorial 1: Create a new demo within RoboHelp 6
- Tutorial 2: Edit Adobe Captivate from RoboHelp 6
- Tutorial 3: Insert an existing Captivate SWF demo into a RoboHelp topic
- Tutorial 4: Import HTML – Playbar Skins with borders
- Tutorial 5: Import HTML – Playbar Skins without borders
- Create a quiz and show results, and other tips
Online user assistance authors are increasingly being asked to weave training and animated tutorial media into their help content. The good news is that RoboHelp 6 is now tightly integrated with Adobe Captivate 2, the popular demo- and simulation-making application used by instructional designers and help authors.
Adobe has placed its technical communications platform on an accelerated development path. Adobe Captivate, RoboHelp, FrameMaker, and Acrobat are already essential tools. Working together as this article describes, these applications are beginning to show some real benefits in their synergy.
In these five tutorials you will learn the major enhancements added to RoboHelp 6 to take advantage of Adobe Captivate's demo and simulation SWF file format:
- How to create an Adobe Captivate demo on the fly, right from within RoboHelp
- How to edit the Adobe Captivate demo to make updates (called round-tripping)
- How to insert an existing Adobe Captivate SWF object into a RoboHelp topic
- How to import an existing Adobe Captivate demo using the Import HTML technique with borders
- How to import an Adobe Captivate demo without borders
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:
Adobe RoboHelp 6
Adobe Captivate 2
Microsoft WordPad
Note: Found on most versions of Microsoft Windows by going to Program Files > Accessories > WordPad. If not available, you can substitute another application.
Sample files:
- expense_report-for-recording.zip (Contains the WordPad file to be "captured" for the tutorials)
- rh6cp2-roboHelp-project.zip (Contains a prepared RoboHelp 6 project to kick-start the tutorials)
- expense_simulation_captivate_project.zip (Contains an Adobe Captivate project file for Tutorials 3, 4, and 5)
Prerequisite knowledge
While even absolute beginners will benefit from this article, it is assumed that the reader understands the basics of how to create projects in both RoboHelp and Captivate.
If you are just getting started with either application, check out the following:
About the author
John Daigle is president of Evergreen Online Learning, LLC, based in Evergreen, Colorado. He is an Adobe Community Expert and frequent speaker at online help conferences as well as a contributor of several articles in the Adobe Developer Center. John is an Adobe Certified Instructor for RoboHelp, Adobe Captivate, and Acrobat Connect Professional (formerly Breeze). His websites, hypertexas.com and showmethedemo.com, offer resources for online help authoring and e-learning design and techniques. John is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication and has a Journalism degree from the University of Houston. He began his career in broadcast news as a reporter for the NBC-TV affiliate in Houston, Texas.
