Odd characters showing in capture

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After a basic recording I've noticed the highlight boxes include a string of lovely dingbats. The same characters show regardless of the color of highlight box used. I have no idea how to get rid of this. The characters behave like text in that if the highlight box is narrowed considerably the characters don't show. I didn't think to check the XML files for the highlights to see if they include some odd tag.

Hmmm, Highlight Boxes aren't capable of containing characters, so whatever the characters are, are stemming from something else.
On second thought, it would seem the "Highlight Box" object typically has the term "Highlight Box". And that would seem to certainly correspond to the number of characters you are seeing. It's as if Captivate is presenting the word using Wingdings font or something.
Does the same thing occur for other objects, such as Click Box?
Have you reported this to Adobe as a bug?
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Cheers... Rick

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