Importing from powerpoint...508 compliance issues

Accessibility is important to my agency but importing from powerpoint results in slides a screen reader can't read and the image tags identified in the powerpoint don't show up in published projects. Subject matter experts create the content, I put them in captivate 5.5 to add features and make them play with my LMS (SCORM). Adobe says published SCORM projects are 508 compliant but I can't seem to get them to actually BE compliant. Any ideas? I don't see anything in any of the tutorials or available documentation or from iconlogic.

Hi newcd,
I just read the VPat for SQL Server 2008 R2. I do not see where there are accessibility issues for the PDF format. Can you please explain?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/government/products/section-508-vpats/default.aspx#fbid=vv_eVaIKitQ
If this is a bug, to get it fixed you would need to contact customer support.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/profsup/en-au?wa=wsignin1.0
Brad Syputa, Microsoft Power BI This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

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Hello All,
I am trying to fix 508 compliance issues for SSRS reports in Pdf format (exported from SSRS toolbar).
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Can someone please suggest correct direction in fixing the 508 compliance issues?
thanks in advance

Hi newcd,
I just read the VPat for SQL Server 2008 R2. I do not see where there are accessibility issues for the PDF format. Can you please explain?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/government/products/section-508-vpats/default.aspx#fbid=vv_eVaIKitQ
If this is a bug, to get it fixed you would need to contact customer support.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/gp/profsup/en-au?wa=wsignin1.0
Brad Syputa, Microsoft Power BI This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

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We're having to do a certain amount of importing from PowerPoint for productivity reasons. Some slides show good imported text and some slides show really scraggy text. I can't find any pattern behind this behaviour and have tried lots of different settings to try to get to the bottom of the issue.
Has anybody else encountered this? More's the point, has anybody else encountered it and managed to find out how to get consistently good text?

We're using Captivate 7. The powerpoint files are .pptx, either 2007 or 2010.
Standard Arial system font.
I don't know how the SMEs are creating the PowerPoint content, but I've tried it using both Powerpoint placeholders in the standard Office theme, and using inserted text boxes, and they all import and view just fine. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to when the text goes scraggy.

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Any idea why slides I import from a PowerPoint file to
Captivate 3 look fuzzy? Whether I have simple text or use SmartArt
or especially graphics in my PowerPoint slides, the imported slides
are no where near as sharp as the slides I create within Captivate.
The "slide movies" I create while recording in Captivate are razor
sharp, but everything I import from Powerpoint does not look sharp
- some is barely passable, some is OK, some is pretty crappy -
depending on the font sizes.
My boss wants to create a training session based on some
PowerPoint slides which contain a few graphics but mostly bulletted
lists, and then intersperse that with some recorded screens to show
movements of cursors and which buttons are clicked in the
application, etc.
I've got a nice presentation put together, about 100 slides
total (which is a bit large, I understand) but can't figure out why
the PowerPoint slides are generally "fuzzy". I've tried importing
as a background image versus animation (no animation in the slides)
to no avail.
Thanks for your time...
Charlie

Welcome to our community, Charlie
PowerPoint is intended to be played at full screen. When you
import it into Captivate, you are forcing it into a smaller size.
Hence a bit of "fuzziness" or distortion. There are different
things you might wish to try.
* Configure PowerPoint to play in a window. Then use
Captivate to record the PowerPoint as it plays. That would result
in crystal clear recording.
* Kevin Siegel talks in one of his blog posts about
configuring the PowerPoint dimensions so they better translate. You
may view this post by
Clicking
Here
Hopefully something here was helpful to you... Rick

CP8: import from powerpoint - retain individual objects on slide

I did an import from PowerPoint and chose high fidelity, but it's still just importing the slide as one object, so I can't manipulate any of the objects on the screen. I thought each shape would import as a smart shape that I could manipulate individually. Is there a way to make this happen?

Indeed, nothing has changed about import, you will not have individual objects. High Fidelity means that animations etc will play more accurately. Captivate is not a PPT-plug in as a lot of users seem to think. There are real plug-ins around if you think a PPT can make a good eLearning course (you feel I'm not convinced that a presentation tool is an eLearning tool, sorry for that).

Hyperlinks don't work when importing from PowerPoint

When importing a file from PowerPoint, the hyperlinks on the slide work when in preview mode, but they do not work when the file is published except for when published as a pdf file. Is this a common problem?

Hi there
I didn't think Hyperlinks survived the trip from the PowerPoint universe to Captivate. But things probably changed with Captivate 4.
It could be that you are seeing the Flash Player silently blocking your linking. If that's the case, following what is outlined at the tutorial linked below should help.
Click here to view the tutorial
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I'm trying to simply automate a series of Power Point slides
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Hi steve10150 and welcome to our community
Perhaps an old post from one of our former Adobe Community
Experts will help here. Blurry text from PowerPoint imports is a
very common complaint.
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redvic 08/01/2005 03:52:22 PM
When importing PPT slides to a movie, can I stretch the slide
to fit the Captivate movie frame? I see nothing in help.
In an existing movie, I import PPT slides but there is a
white edge on the left & right sides of the frame.
Tommy Simmons 08/01/2005 05:56:58 PM
redvic,
It sounds like you have a slight mismatch between the aspect
ratios of your Captivate movie and the PowerPoint presentation. It
strikes me that you could either try 1) using "File > Page
Setup" in PPT to change the aspect ratio of your PPT and then do a
manual capture/import operation into Captivate of the selected
slides, or else 2) if a straight manual capture would not produce a
scalability problem for the slide in Captivate, you could use the
PPT splitter bars to resize the thumbnail image in Normal view to
whatever you need and then manually capture the slide, taking care
to crop the slide top and bottom to get the aspect ratio the way
you need. Hopefully someone else can suggest a more elegant
solution - good luck!
redvic 08/02/2005 09:13:57 AM
Hi,
Thanks, your first suggestion worked! I did not know I could
do a custom-sized PPT slide. I did File > Page Setup and chose
"Custom" for Slides sized for field. Then, I specified the height
and width of the slides based on the size of my existing Captivate
project. For this, I had to convert pixels of the Captivate project
to inches in PPT. I divided the pixels dimensions by 72 and got the
approximate inches. For example, 798x546 in Captivate converted to
11.1" x 7.6" in PPT.
redvic 08/02/2005 03:57:09 PM
Hi,
A caveat to this solution: When I switched to a Custom sized
PPT slide size, PowerPoint automatically adjusted the font sizes,
too. For example, I increased the width of the PPT slide a little
bit and my 24 pt Heading font became 26 pt. Our corporate standard
is 24 pt. So, I had to go into the slides and adjust the font sizes
back to the corporate standards.
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Hopefully this helps... Rick

Can I add a button in Captivate 5 imported from PowerPoint?

I have imported a PowerPoint into Captivate and added a button. When the user clicks the button, it is supposed to open a URL. When I publish the movie, nothing happens when I click the button. I have tried this on a few different computers. I also tried inserting a blank slide into Captivate and adding the button to that slide, and nothing happens. I have verified that I can add a similar button to a Captivate presentation that is not comprised of PowerPoint slides.
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I'm sorry I was not clear.
I imported a PowerPoint into Captivate. The hyperlink that worked in PowerPoint does not work when I publish the new Captivate file.
I then add a button from Captivate's menus. The action on the button is to go to a URL.
When I publish the Captivate file and click "yes" to view the output, I click on the button and nothing happens.
I hope this is clear. Thanks for responding.

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If you are testing this locally, perhaps you need to configure the Flash Player Trusted Location settings?
Click here for info on doing that
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Here's the deal.
1. The workaround I'm about to present was not developed by
me. It was developed by my friend and colleague John Daigle. I just
don't want to take credit that isn't due.
2. This workaround hasn't seemed to work for some folks. Why
isn't clear yet.
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make sure that you have selected Flash Player 7 where you see Flash
Player Version. It is normally the default, so unless you
specifically changed it, you shouldn't need to change it. But it's
critical that this version appear here. Otherwise, the process is
moot.
After you publish, back in the Captivate project, wherever
you have a full motion clip, insert a blank slide immediately
preceding the full motion clip. Configure the Slide timing to match
the full motion clip. Note the name of the full motion clip.
On the new Blank slide, click Insert > Animation... and
browse to that temporary folder you created earlier when you
published. Insert the corresponding full motion clip you should
find there.
Delete the slide with the original full motion clip.
Rinse and repeat until all slides with full motion clips have
been eradicated and you have new slides consisting of the "other"
full motion clips you published.
Now publish again. Again, be sure you choose Flash Player 7.
Assuming this works for you, you should end up with a single
.SWF that is the sum of all the former .SWF files. The only real
exception to this is if you used some of the supplied Flash
Animation. A few of those here and there will still result in
additional .SWF files.
Give that a go and let us know how you fare. As I said
earlier, others have tried this and it failed for them. Which
puzzled me, because it works for John and myself.
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Is there a forum for Captivate that specifically addresses Section 508 compliance issues?

I currently use Captivate 5.5 and would like to get ahead of the 508 issues that may arise and be able to go to a forum or site that may have similar questions, and hopefully answers.

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