GIF's make my export project HUGE!!!

Hi HD!

When creating, editing, and publishing Articulate Storyline courses, be sure you're working on your local hard drive (typically your C: drive). Working on a network drive or a USB drive can cause erratic behavior, such as file corruption, an inability to save changes, and loss of resources. See this article for more information.

Be sure that you are working on the latest update as well, which for Storyline 2 is now Update 7.

If this is happening on one file, I would advise importing into a new file to see if this alleviates the issue.

Sometimes very small or very large image files get bloated when converted by pngcrush during publish. One solution is to take the output folder and replace all the images using TinyPNG. It's a painful process especially if your course is media heavy, but totally worth the extra effort.

Thanks Alexandros, will give this workaround a try.

What the connection between GIF's and PNG's though?

The question is - isn't it an issue that needs to be addressed and fixed by Articulate?

Hi HD! Not sure if you saw my post above as well. Awaiting feedback to see if that helps your issue.

PNG and GIF are lossless formats. As a result compression is usually lower than that of a JPEG. GIF's can grow large if you're using it for large images, it's just what it is. Same goes for animated GIF's.

So no, it's not an Articulate issue, just a matter of making the right choice between file format characteristics and the way they work.

Here's a nice article about image formats: http://www.ou.edu/class/digitalmedia/articles/CompressionMethods_Gif_Jpeg_PNG.html

Thanks Alex :)

"Hi HD! Not sure if you saw my post above as well. Awaiting feedback to see if that helps your issue."

I do that anyhow :)

Thanks Alex.

I am talking about prety small animated gif's.

I'll read the articale you've sent.

Thanks again,

HD

Sounds great HD!