Blurred Text in Exported SWF

Question

I have created a project using C3 and when I export all of
the text appears blurred or bold.
You can see one slide from my project and published swf from
the following link
untitled.zip
Any help to get this looking better would be greatly
appreciated....
Thanks.
Andrew

Answer 1

Hi Andrew and welcome to our community
Looks as if this is something you imported from PowerPoint,
no? Assuming I'm correct with this, you are seeing a slight
degradation because Captivate is resizing the background as it
comes in. There are a couple of things you can do here.
1. You could reconfigure your PowerPoint presentation to
display in a window, then simply record it using Captivate as you
play it back. That should result in crystal clear slides.
2. This one was offered by Kevin Siegel in his newsletter:
Let's assume that your Captivate projects are all set up at
800 x 600 pixels and you've been asked to import a PowerPoint
presentation that was set up at 8 x 10 inches. There is no way
Captivate can effectively resize or convert the 8 x 10 inch
PowerPoint document down to 800 x 600 pixels--the sizes are not
proportional.
The trick is to get the PowerPoint presentation resized to
800 x 600 before you import it into Captivate. However,
PowerPoint's Page Setup is in inches, not in pixels. How are you
going to make the conversion? In your head? A fancy conversion
table? I don't think so. Try this instead.
1. Open the Captivate project that will be receiving the
PowerPoint presentation
2. Right-click any slide and choose Copy Background
3. Switch to PowerPoint and create a new presentation
4. Choose Edit > Paste to paste the Captivate background
into the PowerPoint presentation as an image
5. Right-click the image and choose Format Picture
6. On the Size tab, notice the Height and Width of the
picture (you should write the numbers down now)
7. Click Cancel and close the PowerPoint presentation
8. Open the PowerPoint presentation you intend to import
into Captivate
9. Choose File > Page Setup
10. Change the Width and Height to match the size of the
picture (you did write those numbers down, didn't you?)
11. Click OK
12. Go through your PowerPoint presentation. You may need to
adjust some of the text if the new size is dramatically different
from the original size
13. Save and close the PowerPoint presentation
14. Back in Captivate, open a Captivate project that is the
same size as the PowerPoint presentation you resized (in the
example above, that would be 800x600 pixels).
15. Choose File > Import > PowerPoint Slides.
16. Open the PowerPoint presentation you resized earlier.
After the import process, you'll notice that the size of the
imported PowerPoint slides match your existing Captivate slides. In
addition, the image quality of the backgrounds should be pretty
darned good--much better than you would see if you tried the old
method, which was essentially trying to coax a round-peg into a
square hole.
Hopefully something here was useful... Rick