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Hello,
I wanted to ask if anybody else is experiencing the same issue as I am experiencing when I publish my captivate 6 projects:
Issue:
Project consists of 46 slides. No advanced actions. Multiple rollover images and text captions are on several slides. software capture
When publishing to a USB or my desktop then previewing I get rendering issues and these vary from parts of the software that I am capturing not appearing at all to my master slide templates disappearing. Whenever this happens I try publishing to flash 10 and ctick the force republish of all slides - sometimes this fixes the problem sometimes it does not. So I try publishing to flash 9 force republish of all slides sometimes this fixes the problem sometimes it does not. It is just so hit and miss I have to publish 4 to 5 times before I finally am successful. So of course this is extremely frustrating when I have to make changes to the project and republish.
Also notice that viewing in web browser has the same issue.
Think I am going to have to go back to captivate 5.5, which is such a shame as I really love some of the new features in 6.
Does anybody have any ideas as to why this may be happening?
I have attached two screen dumps - one where the screen is rendered poorly and the other where I have crossed all of my fingers and toes and republished and the screen has been rendered correctly:
Thanks
Ali

Hello Sankaram,
I am experiencing the same problem as Ali, where my master slide randomly disappears in my published project. I tried the options you listed above. I also deselected "Use Master Slide Background" and "Project Background" on each slide.
Also, I have a button on each slide (next button to move through the slides) and sometimes disappears as well. However, I can still click in that region where it should be visible, and it will progress to the next slide.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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