Use RoboHelp's powerful workspace to easily add images and multimedia to your topics. Insert images in various formats, videos from your computer, YouTube, and Vimeo, and audio clips. With the latest RoboHelp interface, you can insert and preview YouTube videos in a click. You can also add image thumbnails that can be zoomed when clicked in the output. Publish rich and creative content with images and multimedia while you experience the smoothest workflows of authoring, publishing, and viewing your project output.
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If an image or video is available in the Contents panel, you can drag-and-drop it to the desired location in your open topic.
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In the Insert Image dialog box, select an image using one of the following options:
- Project Files Browse through the project files in the Contents or the Recently Used drop-down section.
- Local Files Browse through your computer or specify the path of the image file.
- Web Link Specify the URL of the image.
You can preview the selected image in the preview area of all three insert image options.
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Use the following fields to modify the properties of the image:
- Source Displays the path of the folder from which the image was uploaded.
- Alternate Text Specify an alternate text for the image. Terms used in this field improve the searchability of the image.
- Image Title Specify a title for the image, which is displayed when you hover over the image.
- Width Specify the width of the image.
- Maintain aspect ratio icon By default, RoboHelp maintains the aspect ratio of an image. If you change one component (width/height) of the image, the other component (height/width) is automatically changed according to aspect ratio. To disable maintain aspect ratio, click the icon.
- Height Specify the height of the image.
- Reset to default icon Click to reset to the original height and width of the image.
- Text wrapping Click the Left or Right icons to choose the direction of alignment of the image with respect to text. The default is None.
- Use Thumbnail Select to use the image as a thumbnail in the output and specify its width and height.
For information about the drop-down sections in the General tab, see General tab in Properties panel.
You can link an image to internal content, such as a topic in your project, and to external content such as websites and documents. For information about inserting a link, see Insert a link.
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In the Insert Multimedia dialog box, select a video using one of the following options:
- Project Files Browse through the project files in the Contents or the Recently Used drop-down section. Or, quickly search for a video by filename. RoboHelp searches for the specified filename in the Contents panel.
- Local Files Browse through your computer or specify the path of the video.
- Web Link Specify the URL of the video.
You can preview the selected video in the preview area of all three insert video options.
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To be able to insert an Adobe Captivate video in your topic content, you must first import it in your project.
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In the Open dialog box, select the video you want to import.
Adobe Captivate stores video output as a collection of files and folders. To automatically import all the associated files as a zipped file, select index.html or index.htm from the output folder. Or, you can select the .zip or .cpz file of the entire output folder.
Click Open.
RoboHelp places the zipped video in .cpz format in alphabetical order of filenames in the folder.
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If you don't select a folder while importing, the video is placed at the root level in the Contents panel.
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In the standard toolbar, select the Insert Multimedia icon
and then select Adobe Captivate Demo from the drop-down list. In the Adobe Captivate Demo dialog box, from the Contents drop-down section, select the imported video.
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If you insert an imported video once, it is listed under the Recently Used drop-down section in the Adobe Captivate Demo dialog box. You can quickly select videos from here as well.
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Before inserting the selected video, you can preview it in the Adobe Captivate Demo dialog box. Click Insert.
The video is inserted at the location of the cursor in the topic.
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In the standard toolbar, click
at the right corner of the toolbar to quickly play the entire video in Preview and check it before you publish your project.