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1. Vishal Jaswal,

Mar 21, 2011 7:58 AM in reply to gail.lynch

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In respond to your question i would like to inform you that Captivate 5 saves file in " cptx" format whereas Captivate 4 in " cpt".

So it is not possible to open Captivate 5 file in Captivate 4.

However, you can open Captivate 4 file in Captivate 5.

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/08/comparing-adobe-captivate-4-t o-adobe-captivate-5.html

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2. Lilybiri,

Mar 21, 2011 10:45 AM in reply to gail.lynch

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Hello,

I'm sorry, but Captivate has never been backwards compatible. It is not possible to open a project of a later version in a previous version, not even to save a project to the format of a previous version. Captivate 5 has been built up from scratch and is really rather different, moreover it supports only Actionscript3.

This is nothing new: you couldn't open a CP4 project in CP3 neither.

Lilybiri

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3. jmgarciarrtt,

Jun 25, 2012 4:50 AM in reply to gail.lynch

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Hi there:

How could I save a project in cpt format (from Captivate 5.5) ?

I'm trying to find something similar in the forums with no success.

Thanks in advance!

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4. Lilybiri,

Jun 25, 2012 6:07 AM in reply to jmgarciarrtt

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No way, sorry. Captivate has never been backwards compatible.

Lilybiri

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5. jmgarciarrtt,

Jun 25, 2012 7:38 AM in reply to Lilybiri

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Thanks for your answer.

It's quite incredible!, they don't suport their owns formats...

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6. Lilybiri,

Jun 25, 2012 8:00 AM in reply to jmgarciarrtt

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That is your point of view, of course and understand the frustration but there must be a reason. Microsoft doesn't allow to have different versions on the same system, that is also quite a problem. Whereas I have for the moment on my laptop Captivate 4, 5, 5.5 and 6.0 installed and they work happily together. The difference between version 4 and 5 is pretty great, 5 was rewritten from scratch, only supports AS3 (CP4 supports both AS2 and AS3) , has a totally different Text engine etc...

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7. mxw0,

Sep 25, 2012 2:25 PM in reply to Lilybiri

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Captivate 5 is useless for our needs now since it's not supporting AS2. We are unable to import and run in our Articulate Presenter 9 projects. What a waste, we really liked Captivate 4's ability to do this, and unfortunately our company migrated everone to a Win7 OS and will not allow us to use Captivate 4 .... Captivate will lose some customers. I hope they "fix" Captivate 5 and allow AS2 publishing... sucks.

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8. RodWard,

Sep 25, 2012 4:41 PM in reply to mxw0

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That is simply never going to happen. Why don't you try asking Articulate to fix their product so that it can publish in AS3?

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9. mxw0,

Sep 26, 2012 6:19 AM in reply to RodWard

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Already did...no action to date. I did bring in the Captivate 5 file as a web object, but it just doesn't fit nor look the same. but you're right it should be in Articulate's court.

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