I have noticed quite a few discussion threads in the Articulate community forums asking about how to include non-Roman character sets in courses. You can insert text that uses many different character sets in PowerPoint; however, when the presentation is published with Articulate, the text does not publish correctly.

I noticed a recent forum post in which the instructional designer pointed out that Quizmaker allowed him to create a course in Chinese, so I thought I would test ot ...

Try inserting a Flash file with the dimensions of 980 x 640 pixels into your PowerPoint to see what the effect is when you publish it with Articulate Presenter. I did just that and discovered an interesting way to fill up the Articulate player screen with a movie that covers the player completely. It's a different way to get a special effect for a splash screen or perhaps include a video demonstration at some point during a presentation. Note that I used the slide only view for my published present ...

I created a new Articulate community skin that improves the functionality in my first effort to cover up the Articulate player borders.

With this new community skin you can cover the standard Articulate player borders with a frame that is the same color as your HTML page and PowerPoint slide background allowing seamless integration of your content into your web page. The skin is setup for slide-only view and does not include any type of navigation, tabs, or other controls. You m ...

Last Slide Viewed (Call and Return Buttons) for Articulate Presenter

Although Articulate Presenter supports many of the hyperlink features that are included in PowerPoint, it does not support linking to the Last Slide Viewed, a feature that would be very useful in many circumstances.

I created a pair of Flash SWF files that can be used to give the Last Slide Viewed functionality to PowerPoint courses that are published using Articulate Presenter. The files ...

I took up the challenge of creating an Articulate community skin that covers the usual gray/black border that appears around the standard Articulate player. My skin is designed to be used in the slide-only view mode and enlarges the slides to 118% of the standard size to fill as much of the player as possible. No navigation features are included, so you have to create your own navigation buttons in PowerPoint, if you use this skin.

I recorded a short

If you are using PowerPoint to create presentations that you plan to publish for the Internet, you may have already noticed its lack of support for measurements using pixels. This is because the image size in pixels will render to different sizes on different output devices depending on the resolution.

Since I am using PowerPoint to create presentations to be published using Articulate Presenter, I know that the output resolution I want is 72 dpi and the default PowerPoint slide ...

A recent discussion in the Articulate forums prompted me to make the SWF files for a custom skin available to other Articulate users. All this custom skin does is place a grid over the standard Articulate player. It is very useful for determing the size and position of objects in your presentation. Take a look at this screencast for more information.

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Converting an animated GIF to a SWF file is as easy as clicking on Save As and saving the file.

Open your GIF in Fireworks CS4 and take a look at the states in the States panel. You will see that there is one state for every bitmap image that composes the GIF. There should be some player controls at the bottom of your Fireworks window that will allow you to play the animation right in Fireworks.

To convert this to a SWF simple choose File|Save As and select t ...

A recent question on the Articulate community forum asked:

I want to have several hyperlinks on one slide that open different 
videos while coming back to that same slide. I also want a slide 
in which the learner can read, choose to watch a video clip or 
simply move onto the next slide.

Here is one approach to this design. Create a slide with a list of the videos and make each item in the list a hyperlink to the slide containing the appropriate vid ...

There are essentially two methods to include a Camtasia movie in an Articulate Presenter presentation.

First, produce the Camtasia project for the web. In the example that I created, I used the default settings for a size of 640 x 480 px. You might want to make yours a bit smaller to be sure that it will fit on your slide in Articulate.

Once the Camtasia project has been published you have a choice of how to insert it into your Articulate project. Using the A ...

Have you got some old animated GIFs that you wish you could incorporate into your Flash or Articulate projects? The conversion may be easier than you think. Take a look at this short screencast to see just how quick and simple it is with Flash CS4.

One of the many things that you can control in the template for your Articulate Presenter player is whether or not Articulate creates a file containing a launch button to open your course in a new window. The selection comes under the "Other" menu in the Player Template part of the Articulate ribbon in PowerPoint. If you have the Launch in New Window selection checked, Articulate will create a file called launcher.html when your presentation is published, along with the player.html file. ...

Sometimes you may hide the gridlines in an an Excel worksheet inadvertently by creating a background fill for some of the cells. Or, perhaps you have received a worksheet or template from someone else and can't figure out to to show the gridlines. You verified that gridlines were checked in the show menu, but you still can't see them. Take a look at the short screen cast below to see how to solve this problem.

Articulate just released its most recent update to Studio 09, which is now compatible with PowerPoint 2010. Since I recently purchased Office 2010 and was waiting for this update to install it, I was anxious to test it out as soon as possible.

In this, my first trial, I was most interested in seeing how to create an different style of presentation rather than trying out every feature of PowerPoint 2010 and the updated Articulate Presenter. My inspiration came from an online gall ...

I just wanted to share a fun little promotional piece that I completed recently for the National Recreation and Park Association. You can find a link to it at http://www.nrpa.org/fishing/. Just click on the photo link to a video on the target page.

Please take a quick look and let me know what you think. It will only take about 6 minutes to go through whole promo.

This ...