Changing Story Size Mid-Project w/ Least Amount of "damage"

Since I've created the lamest SL thread ever, I figure I'll answer my own question with an update.

Dropped 20px from the height of the Player Size... seems all vector (built in) shapes resized themselves. Haven't checked if resizing is proportional. Needless to say, this resizing of shapes scared me to reverse the "story resizing".

Deciding to plug away on other to-do's. If I have time, I'll make a copy of the project when done and see how much grief resizing is going to cause me.

Can someone from Articulate, or Steve explain how SL calculates resizing shapes (and what about pictures) when Story Size is changed mid project. I'm only talking about a 20-60px change here. I can only assume this is not a situation you want to be in? Or just maybe, I'm making this more difficult than it seems... Hmm.

Hey Ryan, this isn't a lame thread. I have been wondering about this  myself and was hoping that someone would jump in with an answer.

Thanks Nancy.

This would be good to know, because if the answer is "You definitely don't want to get into a situation like Ryan has gotten himself into..."  I could use an answer like that as a reference and plan future projects accordingly (ie. Client signs off on Player Size, Player Features, etc. during "phase one")

I tried resizing one project - it was originally  1024 by 740 and the client wanted to reduce the height by 20 pixels. (Since I was keeping the width but reducing the height I did not keep aspect ratio selected). The background images which where basically full screen jpegs seemed to scale keeping their original aspect ratio and no longer covered the entire screen. The videos resized but it seemed to me that the SL symbols I was using did not. It  was kind of difficult to tell exactly what was happening so I did not save the file.

I decided that it is best to set the size at the beginning of the project and avoid changing mid stream, but it would be good to know what is really happening.

Hi Ryan

Definitely not a lame thread, I tried this early on in my periodic table demo, I wanted to decrease the size, but nothing resized correctly.

I then tried cutting the objects before resizing then pasting (needless to say 7000 triggers dont paste well).

I then gave up,   So I am always looking at what is best practice for resizing

Hi everyone,

Per this tutorial:  http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/choosing-a-story-size.aspx

If you want to change the story size, it's always best to do it before you add any content to your slides. Otherwise, when you change the size, objects on your slides might need to be rearranged or resized in order to look right with the new size.

Thanks Brian!

I think I might be experiencing some of the "damage"...

I resized my project to add some space in the bottom right corner. It resized some of my shapes, which is fine, but now when I went to copy one of these shapes, it pastes it in its original size, not the new size.

Is this normal behavior?

This thread is a bit dated Erika. Do you have a .story file that we could take a look at?