Scripting Enhanced Interactions in Adobe Captivate 5: Advanced Actions, Variables and Text-To-Speech

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Wayne Pascall, Apr 15, 2011 - Computers - 198 pages
This book is intended for those who have already mastered the fundamentals on using Adobe Captivate 5. In particular, it targets developers and designers desiring to master using Advanced Actions and Variables to achieve greater interactivity in Captivate projects. This book goes beyond providing mere step by step tutorials on how to use advanced actions, by providing the instruction in the context of five real-life scenarios. Each scenario applies advanced actions and variables in a different way. Each scenario is a little more complex than the previous. They are presented with clear sequential screenshots of each step, so that you can easily follow along using your Captivate software. In addition, one chapter is dedicated towards achieving professional results in text-to-speech projects. If you are a new user to Adobe Captivate 5, we recommend that you also read "Adobe Captivate 5 - the Quick Visual Guide."Learn Step-by-step on the following subjects :
  • Introduction to Variables and Advanced Actions
  • Scripting for Advanced Actions and Variables In 5 different interactions
    • Scenario 1 - Clicking each image for information
    • Scenario 2 - Clicking each image for information with navigation control
    • Scenario 3 - Navigation completely disabled until all objects are clicked
    • Scenario 4 - A personalized and customized course based on a personality assessment
    • Scenario 5 - A personalized and customized course based on a pretest
  • Recommended voices for text-to-speech tasks
  • Scripting with VTML tags in Text-to-speech projects
  • How to improve the quality of audio in text-to-speech projects

Captivate source files are available for all interactions.
 

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Scripting for Advanced Actions and Variables
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Navigation Completely Disabled until All Objects
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A Personalized and Customized Course Based on
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A Personalized and Customized Course Based on a Pretest
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Scripting for TexttoSpeech
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