Blank Projects vs. Responsive Projects

I normally develop using the Captivate Blank Project as my customers are not normally concerned about responsiveness yet. However, I may be soon working for a new customer that may. So, I wanted to know a few things. 1. Can I make a Blank Project Responsive?
2. If so, what is the best way of going about this?
3. If so, would I have to make sure that all graphics were vector graphics?
3. If not and only the Responsive Project format publishes responsive projects, again must all graphics used be vector graphics for the project to be responsive?
Thanks!

Thank you for your quick reply. Another question - With a blank project you are able to set the most desired size, but on my initial look at the Responsive Project, it does not appear to allow a user to select a size. Just takes one into 1024 x 627. Am I missing something with the sizing? Is there another place to set a size other than the 1024 X 627, if desired, or are all of the different screens (Primary, Mobile, and phone set at what's considered a standard, but the responsiveness aspect will allow it to do any larger, smaller, or non-standard size (say 1000 x 700)?

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Hi, I have created a tutorial in captivate 8. I created it in 'blank project' as I was a new user. I am wondering if there is any way I can change it to a responsive project. Please Help ASAP! Thank you in anticipation.
Hoping to hear from you soon
Regards
Simi

Hi Simi,
You can follow below steps to make your content as responsive.
1) Create a new responsive project.
2) Copy all the slides from your existing blank project and paste them in the responsive project.
3) You can change the object size, position and other things in tablet and mobile view as per your need.
4) Publish and access it from different devices.
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Hi all,
I have a Captivate 8 responsive project in which a text caption is not behaving properly. When I get down to smartphone-sized screens the width of the text caption reduces with the width of the device. But, the height of the text caption does not increase accordingly to fit the content. The text just gets cut off at the bottom.
I've tried the Auto height setting for the object size, but this scales the text down within the boundaries of the text caption. I would like to maintain the size of my text and have it grow down the screen the way plain text does in an HTML page.
I also do not want to set my text caption height to 100% because I would like to stack objects beneath the text caption.
Any help or advice is great appreciated.

Hi cntdmds,
There's a setting buried in Preferences > Defaults > Autosize Captions that changes all text captions in your file. This has enabled my responsive layouts to work better in Captivate.
Re: creating something reliable: I'm in the midst of creating a large responsive e-learning course. It's been a really steep learning curve and a very frustrating one. I believe a reliable course can be created, but it's a hard journey. (My largest problem is my smart position markers don't stay at their assigned places, but I think I'm on track to solve it... perhaps.)
Yet to see if this whole responsive Captivate adventure will be worthwhile. I hope Articulate adds a responsive capability to Storyline.
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Does anyone have tips on best practices for responsive project?
I understand that 3 different layouts can be created. What happens if a learner is not using one of the 3 devices that were set up in a responsive project, and their screen size is different from any of those

Jay,
Dr. Pooja Jaisingh offered very valuable tips for good practice in responsive design last week in her webinar. 'Do's and Don'ts of creating Responsive Projects with Captivate 8'. I don't see the recording yet On Demand, but keep an eye on it.
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My co-worker created a responsive project, but she didn't really understand the use case for responsive design, and now we have a bunch of learners who can't view the HTML5 (they have antiquated browsers that they cannot update) and I need a quick fix. Is there a way to switch over the Flash\html5 version?
I have to fix this tonight before I can go home, (my co-worker is conveniently on vacation). Can anyone help?
Thanks!

Hi there
Unfortunately there is no "flip a switch" and convert from responsive to normal.
What you are faced with is carefully re-creating each slide with the elements on the responsive slides.
Cheers... Rick

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In a responsive project, how does Captivate determine which view should be displayed on which type of device? For example, does it use pixel width or device type?
We have had difficulty designing for tablet devices because when the tablet is held in a landscape position, the primary view is shown. When the device is held in a portrait position, the tablet view is shown. Given that some tablets are higher resolution than desktop machines, how do we ensure that the tablet view is displayed regardless of the tablet's orientation?

That is by design: landscape on tablets will show Primary breakpoint view, Portrait shows the Tablet view.
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Is the drag and drop interaction available for responsive projects in Cp8?

I created a responsive course but the Drag and Drop button is not active. Is the drag and drop interaction available for responsive projects in Cp8?
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Not yet available for responsive projects.
On Jul 14, 2014 10:31 PM, "EWC_elearningDev" <[email protected]>

I've found a bug in drag and drop in responsive projects

I've created a simple, one slide project which has two sources and four targets. Before running the drag and drop wizard, the project previews and publishes. Once I've added the drag and drop wizard, it never previews nor publishes.
Any ideas anyone?

Having checked out D&D in responsive projects and did not see that problem.
Maybe something got wrong when you updated? Did you delete the folders
Layout, Preferences and Sample projects as instructed?

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Suggestions . . . .?

No way. You can use the assets (images, audio files...) from the Library of the original file, but a responsive project is a totally different beast. You also have to be careful with themes: only the themes provided with Captivate 8 are responsive.

Can you convert powerpoint into a responsive project?

can you convert powerpoint into a responsive project? how?

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Responsive projects autosizing for multiple devices -- best practices?

While it's a nice idea to have the three different breakpoints on width that allow you to make some major layout changes, I'm having trouble making this work well across multiple devices. With the high resolutions of current mobile devices, this model just doesn't seem to work well. For example, the iPad 2 in landscape mode select the desktop layout, which isn't bad, but in portrait mode gets the tablet layout, which by default is set up to be landscape. I changed the heights for both breakpoints to better fit the iPad, but then the iPhone in landscape gets the tablet layout, requiring a lot of scrolling.
Given the wide range of resolutions on mobile devices, it's not at all clear how this a simplistic mechanism like this could ever work. For one thing, it sure seems like you need to provide for both portrait and landscape layouts on tablets and phones, with Captivate using both width and height to select the best one. Also, is there any way to tell it to fill the screen without scrolling? How about automatically leaving the area clear where there's a status bar (or telling it to hide the status bar)?
I could just create a separate version of the project for each device, but then lose much of the value of creating a Responsive Project in the first place. Have those of you with more experience found good ways to deal with these variables, or is the best option to just create separate versions of the project?

While it's a nice idea to have the three different breakpoints on width that allow you to make some major layout changes, I'm having trouble making this work well across multiple devices. With the high resolutions of current mobile devices, this model just doesn't seem to work well. For example, the iPad 2 in landscape mode select the desktop layout, which isn't bad, but in portrait mode gets the tablet layout, which by default is set up to be landscape. I changed the heights for both breakpoints to better fit the iPad, but then the iPhone in landscape gets the tablet layout, requiring a lot of scrolling.
Given the wide range of resolutions on mobile devices, it's not at all clear how this a simplistic mechanism like this could ever work. For one thing, it sure seems like you need to provide for both portrait and landscape layouts on tablets and phones, with Captivate using both width and height to select the best one. Also, is there any way to tell it to fill the screen without scrolling? How about automatically leaving the area clear where there's a status bar (or telling it to hide the status bar)?
I could just create a separate version of the project for each device, but then lose much of the value of creating a Responsive Project in the first place. Have those of you with more experience found good ways to deal with these variables, or is the best option to just create separate versions of the project?

My glossary made in a widget does not show up in captivate 8 responsive project. I copied and pasted it. What to do?

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I reply to myself:
response projects are for me too complicated: either one function is working and excludes the other or reverse.
Buttons do work and the glossary not or the glossary works and the buttons do nothing.
Also powerpoints cannot be imported and other functions are also excluded (slide overs)
I like to work on the content, so it my course is very good to be seen on my Ipad in a non responsive way.
Also the helpdesk is very poor: no answers......
Nobody knows the right answers.
A bit disappointed.
I will wait for captiva 9, 10 and 11 before going back to responsive.
Unti now I will go on in the nonresponsive way: in doing that captivate is excellent
Maarten

Image quality on CP8 Responsive Project

Has anyone come across image quality drop off when publishing to a responsive project in CP8?
I currently have a few .PNG icons I need to use with transparency and on different screen sizes they resize as you would expect.
But the quality really drops off on iOS (iPhone 5) where as when showing on a desktop they look fine.
Even when having the image as a fixed size of the correct pixels the .PNG still looks pixellated on the iPhone.
I've tried changing quality settings but to no avail, my first thought was it's network compression over 4G/3G but it's the same on WiFi.
I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious?

Two for Two in helping me TLC....amazing!
The worrying this is that Captivate seems to be not only compressing the image but adjusting the size slightly.
The image had moved from 112x64 to 112x65. As soon as I overwrote the images with the originals and re-named them in the output folder the quality was drastically improved. Obviously this isn't ideal for every time I publish the content but it's a fix for now.
Hopefully Adobe see this and rectify it in a future build.
Thanks again.

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