Archive for March 25. 2010

Create a password-protected portal

Here is a template for a simple Captivate movie that forces the viewer to enter a case-sensitive, unique password before proceeding on to a given web page. This can be handy for putting some rudimentary security in front of your training portal or client review page. Here is how it looks.

Fonts: A fix for fuzzy

A commonly expressed problem with Captivate 2 is that text used in transparent captions looks “blurred” or “fuzzy” in published SWFs. This is because of the way “font-smoothing” is applied. You can override this setting, however, by highlighting the text with the highlight color #C0C0C0, as shown here. In Captivate 4, you need only disable the Anti-alias Transparent Captions check box under Edit ~ Preferences ~ Project ~ SWF Size and Quality.

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