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Creating web content for use in Articulate

For those of you who are interested in exporting Captivate 5 SWFs for use in Articulate Presenter, there is an interesting dilemma preventing us from importing Flash Movies. We will address a workaround for the dilemma in this blog post. My hope is that this issue will become irrelevant as Articulate upgrades their standards, but for the moment it seems as though Articulate only recognizes Flash Movies written in ActionScript 2. The current design standard is ActionScript 3. ActionScript is essentially the code used to define the various flash components in the SWF. It was originally developed by Macromedia, but now Adobe owns it. For those of you who are still using Captivate 4, the solution is actually fairly simple. When you publish your SWF file in Captivate, make sure that the settings are set to publish using AS2 (ActionScript 2). To import it, simply click on Flash Movie (in the Insert group of the Articulate ribbon) and locate your SWF file. The Captivate 5 users wil...