With increase in discussions and happenings around adobe captivate it is bit difficult to keep track of everything. I use host of search engines and rss readers to be updated. Thought of starting this series of posts to aggregate the news and actions around adobe captivate. Please add to the posts if you find something interesting. Just hoping I can maintain the momentum and do it same day every week.
- a new video on “storyboard view in adobe captivate 5″ on adobe elearning channel on youtube.
- Kevin on analyse and chart quiz data without an LMS – he talks about configuring you own web server for storing the quiz data. In his earlier post he talked about storing data on acrobat.com. Link
- a new blog post on adobe captivate team blog about new integrated FMR editor inside Adobe Captivate 5. In earlier versions it was a separate application outside Captivate but now it is all within. Link
- Hidden shortcuts in adobe captivate 5 on team blog. Link
- utility for deleting captivate 5 cache folders on team blog. Link
- Michael has release a intelligent print widget for adobe captivate 4 and 5. It will also always force the print to landscape mode without the user having to select it in the print dialog. Another clever thing is that it will automatically rescale the printed slide so it will fit on the paper selected in the print dialog box. Click here to see demo and buy it here. Link
- Hide TOC duration widget and email reporting widget for 4 and 5 for adobe captivate 5 by Michael
- The review of adobe captivate 5 in Business computing world. Positives – no competition on mac, CS kind of UI, pre built widgets, master slides alongwith other new features. Negative – prebuilt templates could have been better, screen capture for complex screen activity(may be with FMR this should have been solved). Link
- And upgrade to variables in button url widget by Jim. The original post is here.
- A newspaper created with messages shared on twitter. Read it here













Thanks for the mention and link to my new widgets Rajeev – Much appreciated!
/Michael
Michael, the number of widgets you are delivering are worthy for a separate blog post. Hope to see more of them.
Thanks
Rajeev