Converting Studio 09 to SL for Russian
Jun 05, 2012
Hi,
So, I converted a Studio 09 course with just Presenter and a quiz to SL. The text in Studio was all in Russian. After the import to SL, I noticed that a lot of the Russian text had been completely dropped (left out of) the conversion to SL thus making the SL course pretty much unusable. The text that did come over was still in Russian - there were not extraneous characters. So I'm wondering why SL decided to drop sentences (not just a word here or there). We ended up staying with Studio - although that had it's own publishing issues.
I have another course coming up where we'll need to do the exact same thing and another course done in Studio in English that will need to be localized to Arabic and Hebrew. I'd really like to be able to utilize the Right to Left reading option in SL but I'm afraid SL will drop sentences from every language we import now.
Any thoughts or advice?
9 Replies
Dave,
Just a thought - but what fonts are you using in the 2 courses?
Bruce
Bruce,
MS Unicode. fonts seem to be fine. Everything published in Presenter, some text imported to SL (no engages) so I'm not sure why it worked in PPT and Studio but not in SL. We checked the Articulate site for issues with Russian and only really found references to Engage or out of date information - older version of PPT and Presenter. There wasn't anything specific to SL or Studio 09 that said "Russian will not work" or "this made it work". It's a really basic course - 31 slides, no audio, no flash, no engage, just Presenter slides with basic PPT animation and 10 questions in quizmaker.
Dave
to be specific, it was Arial Unicode MS.
bump....
anyone have any thoughts on converting from English to another language - importing Studio (Presenter and quizmaker) 09 to SL and having sentences be left out during the SL import? It ended up publishing fine in Presenter, but I will definitely need to do more conversions and translation and would really like to use SL.
Hi there Dave, our apologies that your post missed our radar! Would you mind submitting your project files here (your .story file as well as any Articulate Studio files from which you imported) so that we can create a support case and take a look at what might be the trouble? Thanks so much!
I have another course coming up where we'll need to do the exact same thing and another course done in Studio in English that will need to be "localized to Arabic and Hebrew"
Hebrew and Arabic are working just fine except for the Mobile Player. Use only HTML 5 for now.
Hello Yaki - you mentioned Hebrew and Arabic are not working in your Mobile Player? Have you seen the recommendations in this article and this tutorial? While it's true that player elements don't currently support right-to-left languages, these languages should work in your slide content. If you're seeing otherwise, could you please submit a support case so that we can log the issue?
Hi Jeanaette,
Exactly. player elements don't currently support right-to-left languages
Yes, this is something we do hope to address in a future update; stay tuned.
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