Hello,
I recently upgraded to Captivate 6 (of course, right as CP7 is released). I'm having the same trouble that I used to have in 5.5 with the object styles and preferences, and I had hoped that upgrading would solve the issue. Captivate never applies my global object styles and preferences correctly when I record a project. I create all of my styles and set up my recording preferences with no projects open, so everything should apply to all new projects.
Here's an example of what happens. My Default Capture Caption Style uses the Adobe Red caption type, with size 13 Arial font. My default preference for click boxes and captions is to display for "Rest of Slide."
This is a practice slide that I just captured (right here in the forum). It's the correct caption type, but the text is too small (it's 10 instead of 13 in the Object Style Manager, even though I have 13 set at the global level). Also, the timings are off. Both the click box and the text caption should display for the entire slide, by default.
So, my Object Styles and recording defaults get me part of the way there, but I still have to do some extra work: re-editing and applying styles, and fixing the timings for each object type and "applying to all." I've searched the Adobe forums for this problem and have never found a definitive answer. I wondered if anyone has ever seen this before? Is there a way to get my defaults to actually, well, default?
I haven't played with themes yet in CP6 but I don't think that's my trouble. When I edit the object styles in "global" mode, it says I am in the "white" theme, and that theme is applied when I record new slides.
Thanks,
Lisa