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I've been asked to use Adobe Captivate 4 to create a simulation of company software.
I understand how to use the simulation capabilities of Captivate, but this project can easily get extremely large.
I can picture hundreds of slides for one of the many processes.
Since we always try to keep our projects to 60 slides or less, I am not sure Captivate is the best choice.
Has anyone had experience with creating simulation projects with Captivate 4.
If so, are we truely limited to a given number of slides, etc?
Should I be exploring other software to create this project?
Thank you,
David Gambal
TMG Health

David,
Cp4 did seem to have some limits when it came to the number of slides it could handle, but I believe the actual number was well over 100. Maybe someone else can chime in with their personal experiences, but I've used it to create simulation project with more than 100 slides without issue. However if you were going for 200-400 slides then you might be in dicey territory.
If you were going to have to purchase another tool to do this anyway, why not just consider upgrading to Captivate 5.5? I don't know of any other software simulation tool that does it better than Captivate.

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