How to change background in bulk

Question

Hi All,
I have made simulation type project in English version using Captivate 4. Now, I want to develop this project in multilingual. I can change the caption text easily using the export command. But I want to change the background for multilingual.
Do you have any idea about it.
Regards,
Manshu

Answer 1

If you have a lot of slides that share the same single background, you can change that background on multiple slides at once by:
In Edit view, with the Filmstrip pane visible, hold down the CTRL key and click on each slide in the Filmstrip pane you want to change.
Right-click one of the selected slides and choose Properties.
On the Properties dialog, click the Change Background Image button and select the desired background.
Result:  The background you choose will be applied to each of the slides selected in the Filmstrip pane.
A better approach is to build your original project by importing external images into your project and then using the Update feature in the Captivate library to replace all your images with "localized language" versions.
The advantage of using imported images is that Captivate "remembers" the folder location of each image and you can easily tell Captivate to reimport those images at any time:
Capture all your images using dedicated screen capture software (the Snipping tool included in Windows 7 will work).  Save each image to a folder on your hard drive (or folders, if you want to be super organized) using meaningful file names to allow you to easily identify and update each image later.
Build your initial Captivate project by importing each image from your hard drive.
Make a backup copy of the original images on your hard drive.
Overwrite the original images on your hard drive with "localized language" versions, using the exact same file names.
In Captivate, select all the images in your Library that you want to update.
Right-click one of the selected images and choose Update.
Click the Update button.
Save the updated project with a new file name that reflects the new language.
Result:  Captivate replaces all the selected images with the updated versions from your hard drive.
If you haven't already been using imported images in your project, you can start by importing an initial set of localized images and then use the Overwrite and Update trick for each successive language.
In a pinch, you can also capture all your images using Captivate, but this requires you to first export the images from the Captivate Library to a folder, then reimport them one at a time from the hard drive to establish the "folder path" that Captivate needs for the Update feature to work.
Cheers,
John