My business uses Helvetica as their standard font. When I use Helvetica in Storyline 2, it looks fine while creating, but once I preview or publish it looks odd. Some of the letters look scrunched, while others look taller. Any ideas?
I've noticed something similar with Univers Condensed 57. In my case if I apply bold to text it appears correctly in the work screen but when published it loses its "boldness" but seems to retain the extra letter spacing that the bold font style would have used. I want to test this some more but clearly the bold is not applying as it should when published or previewed.
I don't have helevetica to test this out - but as Wendy mentioned you'll want to check your DPI setting first. Also, when viewing the published output you'll want to ensure you're testing it within the intended environment as described here.
Our team has been having the same font rendering issue with Helvetica Neue, our corporate font. I've submitted a ticket to support but they were unable to reproduce, though about 4 developers here are experiencing the same issue on different machines. We just had to revert to Arial in the meantime. It doesn't happen in Storyline 1, so I think it is an issue with how SL2 handles text.
Yes, I should have been more detailed. My issue is with Helvetica Neue as well. I had someone watch my course on the LMS and all the letters were odd sizes. We reverted back to Arial as well.
One thing I tried today that seemed to help is this: Publish your file, then go to the published folder. Open the story_content folder and find the file named FontFactory.swf. Rename or delete that file. Then re-preview your file. It will look a lot better.
I noticed this file is not in the Storyline 1 output. I'm thinking it is used to embed fonts for the Flash output, but I could be wrong. When it's not there, the font doesn't have the weird character scaling issues. I haven't tested it on another machine yet though (one that doesn't have Helvetica Neue installed on it.)
I see that in your case, you were able to share the .story file and the Helvetica Neue font with Regil, and even with the font installed he wasn't able to replicate the behavior - and shared a copy of the published output with you. Were you able to confirm that you were working with local project files and look into conducting the repair here?
Storyline 2 does handle text differently than Storyline 1,and the kerning issue with the Arial font that Hassan linked to has been reported to our QA team for review.
Yes, I am working locally and tried all of the steps in the page you linked to. Still having the issue. There are several other developers working with the same font at my company--they are reporting same issue as well.
Additionally, I discovered the font seems to be okay at 11 pt, but not at 12pt. Both look fine in authoring.
I'm just following back up and I see that Regil shared the issue with our QA team for additional review. When there is additional information Regil will be able to share it with you through the case and I'll link it to this thread as well so I can provide additional information for users following along.
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Hi Jennifer
make sure your DPI is set to 96 and you are not previewing in a 'zoom' state
see this link...http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/articulate-storyline-dpi-support
Hi Jennifer,
I've noticed something similar with Univers Condensed 57. In my case if I apply bold to text it appears correctly in the work screen but when published it loses its "boldness" but seems to retain the extra letter spacing that the bold font style would have used. I want to test this some more but clearly the bold is not applying as it should when published or previewed.
Hi Jennifer,
I don't have helevetica to test this out - but as Wendy mentioned you'll want to check your DPI setting first. Also, when viewing the published output you'll want to ensure you're testing it within the intended environment as described here.
Our team has been having the same font rendering issue with Helvetica Neue, our corporate font. I've submitted a ticket to support but they were unable to reproduce, though about 4 developers here are experiencing the same issue on different machines. We just had to revert to Arial in the meantime. It doesn't happen in Storyline 1, so I think it is an issue with how SL2 handles text.
Hi Wendy,
I followed the instructions in the link that told me to set my radio button to 100%. It was already at 100%.
Hi Elizabeth,
Yes, I should have been more detailed. My issue is with Helvetica Neue as well. I had someone watch my course on the LMS and all the letters were odd sizes. We reverted back to Arial as well.
Hi Jennifer, Hi Elizabeth,
I had similar font rendering issues with Arial. Here is link for your information.
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/arial-font-and-kerning-issue#reply-220208
Thanks,
I have been trying a lot of things to try to get this work, including the all of the ideas on this list! (Didn't make a difference.)
http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline-2/unexpected-or-erratic-behavior-in-articulate-storyline-2
One thing I tried today that seemed to help is this: Publish your file, then go to the published folder. Open the story_content folder and find the file named FontFactory.swf. Rename or delete that file. Then re-preview your file. It will look a lot better.
I noticed this file is not in the Storyline 1 output. I'm thinking it is used to embed fonts for the Flash output, but I could be wrong. When it's not there, the font doesn't have the weird character scaling issues. I haven't tested it on another machine yet though (one that doesn't have Helvetica Neue installed on it.)
Hi Elizabeth and all,
I see that in your case, you were able to share the .story file and the Helvetica Neue font with Regil, and even with the font installed he wasn't able to replicate the behavior - and shared a copy of the published output with you. Were you able to confirm that you were working with local project files and look into conducting the repair here?
Storyline 2 does handle text differently than Storyline 1,and the kerning issue with the Arial font that Hassan linked to has been reported to our QA team for review.
Hi Ashley,
Yes, I am working locally and tried all of the steps in the page you linked to. Still having the issue. There are several other developers working with the same font at my company--they are reporting same issue as well.
Additionally, I discovered the font seems to be okay at 11 pt, but not at 12pt. Both look fine in authoring.
Thanks Elizabeth - I'm going to let Regil know about this difference and see if he can test the different font sizes as well.
Hi Ashley,
Thanks...and I will post an update for everyone if he is able to figure it out.
Thanks Elizabeth and I'll be following along in your case as well.
Hi Elizabeth,
I'm just following back up and I see that Regil shared the issue with our QA team for additional review. When there is additional information Regil will be able to share it with you through the case and I'll link it to this thread as well so I can provide additional information for users following along.
Okay, thanks!
Hi Jennifer!
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