Monthly Archives: July 2015

Adobe TechCommSuite 2015 release

Captivate, Development Tools, HTML5/JS, Localization/Translation, Other Tools, Responsive Design

TCS-ProductsResponsive HTML5 output and Right-to-Left (RtL) language support! Two significant updates to the latest release of Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite. Targeted as a “publishing toolkit for technical writers, help and policy authors, and instructional designers”, Adobe’s TCS includes:

  • Acrobat Pro DC – “The complete PDF solution for working anywhere“
  • Captivate 8 – “Everything you need to create eLearning courseware“
  • FrameMaker 2015 – “Easily author bidirectional technical content and publish across mobile devices“
  • RoboHelp 2015 – “Deliver personalized content across platforms and mobile devices“
  • Presenter 10 – “Video creation was never this easy“

While those versions of Captivate and Presenter have been out for a while, the updates to Framemaker and RoboHelp allow the entire TCS to finally hit a new release (release notes). Continue reading Adobe TechCommSuite 2015 release →

Text-to-Speech in Captivate 8

508/Accessibility, Captivate, Development Tools

CP8 and TTSCaptivate continues to provide one of the more robust text-to-speech (TTS) features among the various authoring products. It not only ships with multiple voices but can access the TTS options on your Windows computer as well (I’m not sure about Mac system access though).

But it’s not necessarily an easy process to setup, so in concert with eLearning Brothers, I submitted a post “Captivate 8: Working with Text-to-Speech and Voices” a couple weeks ago – though I’m just getting around to mentioning it now 🙂 Continue reading Text-to-Speech in Captivate 8 →