sometimes when capturing a simulation, captivate will miss a screen, or get it
with the button to be clicked greyed out.

the solution i'm using is to go back, recreate up to that point, screenshot
it, save the screenshot so it's roughly the same, then import it as background.

questions:
1.
is there a background or slide export to graphics? this could save a lot of
time (ie, white out a selected radio button in a graphics app instead of
running 30 mins of app to get to same screen). but i can't gt the graphics out
at their full size for this purpose.
2.
better yet, is there way, when capturing, to force captivate to take a slide?
it seeems to choose on its own and is right 90 ish % of the time, but that last
10% kills me.

ty,
-billb

Welcome to our community, Billb

You are able to export backgrounds via the Library panel. Try clicking View >
Show Library. With the Library visible, you are able to right-click the image
and choose "Export".

Note there is a Captivate way to "White out" an area of the background. You
click Insert > Highlight Box and configure it for 0% transparency and the color
white. Then position it over the area you wish to white out. Now right-click
the Highlight Box and choose "Merge into Background". The net effect is
identical to what you would obtain by editing the background in something like
Photoshop or Gimp.

As for grabbing extra screens, sure! Just tap the Print Screen key on your
keyboard while you are recording. That action will force Captivate to grab that
screen.

Cheers... Rick :smile;

A slightly more efficient option is to right-click a Library item and choose
"Edit with...".

Captivate will then prompt you for the location of your image editing
application, such as Photoshop. You should only have to do this once, as
Captivate will remember your application choice going forward.

A copy of the selected item then opens in your image editor and when you save
changes to that image, the copy in Captivate is updated automatically.

The only caveat is that you need to flatten the image in your image editor to
remove any layers before saving. Captivate doesn't know what to do with images
containing layers.

Regards,
John