Adobe Captivate 5.5: Round and Round We Go...

by Kevin Siegel

One of the shortcomings with working with objects in Adobe Captivate has always been the inability to control the rotation of a selected object. Beginning with Captivate 5, you could flip or rotate an image via the Properties panel. In fact, there are four tools in Captivate 5 and 5.5 allowing you to flip an image horizontally or vertically, as well as rotate right or left.



In Captivate 5, you couldn't grab hold of an image and give it a good spin. And you couldn't rotate text captions at all. However, with Captivate 5.5, you are free to rotate objects to your heart's content. Select a slide object and you'll notice a free-rotate icon at the top of the object.



Drag that icon and you can rotate the object to any rotation angle you need.



If dragging the free rotate icon simply isn't your cup of tea, you'll be happy to learn that you will also find an Angle field on the Transform panel.

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Comments

[Ivan]

Nice to see that Adobe is blending all its app together so we get the best from all products.

Otherwise hard to justify the license fee.

Ivan

[Jodie Howard]

You state: "Beginning with Captivate 5, you could flip or rotate an image via the Properties panel."

Can you explain further, or did you mean ver. 5.5?

Thanks for your site!

j

[Kevin Siegel]

If you select an image in CP5 (not 5.5) and take a look at the Properties panel, Image group, you'll notice that you have some basic rotation options (left, right). There is no ability to free rotate to any number around the 360 spectrum. If you select an object other than an image, like a caption, the rotation ability is gone completely. CP 5.5 allows you to free rotate anything, which is pretty nifty.