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Captivate 5.5 not backwards compatible

sleah
Registered: Oct 14 2008
Posts: 19
Answered

Recently two of our Captivate users upgraded to 5.5. They are now finding that their saved files cannot be viewed by anyone with earlier version of Captivate.
 
How do we correct this?
 
Thanks, Susan

UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Captivate has never been backward-compatible, if users wish to share projects they have to be using the same version.
KellyMcC
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Jul 11 2011
Posts: 389
Accepted Answer
This is the Acrobat forum, not Captivate. I'm sorry I can't answer your question. Can you re-post it on the Captivate forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/adobe_captivate

Typically all Adobe products can open earlier versions. If someone had Captivate CS5, they could not open CS5.5 (but this is only an example, I am not a Captivate expert). If someone has Captivate CS5.5, they can open all older versions (CS5, CS4, etc. ).

There may be an option in Captivate to save to an earlier version (check the Save As dialog).

Kelly McCathran
Adobe Community Expert
Certified Technical Trainer+

KellyMcC
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Jul 11 2011
Posts: 389
Dave, thanks for answering this one. Wow! You've got a broad base of app knowledge :)

Kelly McCathran
Adobe Community Expert
Certified Technical Trainer+