I was doing some work on an orientation course for our human resources division and was importing a PowerPoint into Captivate, which is an authoring program from Adobe. Previously everything had been fine, but now when the slides came in, they were tiny.

Culprit is the latest version of the Adobe Flash player 10.1

The entire thread of information including the discovery and the workaround for the problem is at

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/660874?tstart=0

but if you want the fix, here is the detail...

It is submitted by an Adobe Employee so I think it should be fine... One thing to consider if you are in an enterprise environment is that the 10.1 version of the Flash player provides some security benefits that might outweigh the editing need in an esoteric authoring tool. Additionally although the slides appear shrunken, they still publish at the correct size.

That all said, read on...

Small Microsoft PowerPoint & Adobe Flash Objects in Captivate 4 after Flash Player 10.1 Installation

After upgrading to Flash Player 10.1, you may notice that imported Powerpoint images and SWF animations appear smaller in the Edit area and Storyboard. The issue does not affect published content. This issue affects authoring space appearance of several Captivate objects, like the FMR animations, text animations, any third party animations and widgets.  We are investigating this issue. 

At this point we are recommending the following work around. Un-install Flash Player 10.1 using "Start: Control Panel: Add or Remove Programs," restart your computer and then install the previous version of Flash Player - 10.0.45.2. Please follow the following steps:

1.     Go to Settings à Control Panel (On Windows XP)

2.     Open Add/Remove Programs dialog.
3.     Select Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX and click ‘Remove’ button.
4.     Once the un-installation is complete, re-start your computer.
5.     Open your browser and go to this link - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html
6.     Under “Archived Versions” section, click on Flash Player 10 link and download the zip file containing all the Flash Player 10 exes.
7.     Extract the zip file and then select 10r45_2 folder.
8.     Inside this folder, double-click on flashplayer10r45_2_winax.exe to install Flash Player ActiveX.
 
If you have any difficulty with the preceding steps.
1.     If you are not able to install this version of Flash Player then follow the link http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html in your browser.
2.     Click on Windows: uninstall_flash_player.exe
3.     Save this uninstaller on your machine and run it to do a clean un-install.
4.     Try to run flashplayer10r45_2_winax.exe to install Flash Player ActiveX once again. (Beginning with Step 4 above.)

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