Is it possible to save or export slide to .pdf or .jpg?

Hi Jason!

A "print current slide" feature is a popular request, and I can definitely understand why this would be handy in Storyline. I’ll share your suggestion with our development team!

Hi Alyssa, has the dev team given this request any thought?

Hi Jennifer,

While that feature isn’t currently on our development roadmap, we are working on big improvements that will be helpful for the majority of our customers. You’ll see those rolling out soon! 

And if you're wondering how we manage all of the great feature ideas we receive, check out our process here!

I am also wanting to save a 'certificate' slide as a PDF or jpeg/png - has there been any progress with this?

Hi Jason,

We've yet to implement a certificate feature, but have you looked at the certificate creation here? That'll create an HTML page which is pretty easy to save as a PDF. 

Hi Ashley,

I hadn't come across that actually - great idea, I'll experiment and see what we can come up with. Thanks!

Following up to see if there is yet the capability to save a slide as an image. Similar to how you can publish a single scene to be used within Rise, I'm wanting to create an image to use in Rise. Wondering if I can do this in Storyline, publish it as an image (instead of a storyline file) and use it in Rise. Or, any ideas on how to do something like this? I am hoping to use the characters in Storyline for the image.

Hi Adriel,

If you're just wanting to use the characters from Storyline in Rise, we've been able to do this by right clicking on the picture/character and 'export picture > save picture'.  This seems to keep the transparent background for the characters. If you want the whole slide with a character on it, I'm afraid the best we've come up with is making the slide as big as possible (for higher resolution) and using the Windows 'snipping tool' to capture it.  Hope that helps, Cheers!

Thanks Jason! Appreciate the response :)

There is a workaround. It's best if your story size is full HD (1920x1080) to ensure high quality of the image. Then you just need to follow few simple steps:

1. Once you want to export your entire slide to .png or .jpg you publish the course to Word.

2. Then you right-click on the slide image in the Word doc and choose "Save as Picture..."

3. After that you just save it as .png or .jpg, and end up with a high quality image to be re-used as a hand-out etc. :)

I found this to be exactly what I needed! Thank you!

Almost every time I search for something I need it has been asked for years ago,  Then people have to come up with workarounds like this one.  How about right-clicking on the slide and "export slide as..."? I'm sure it's not that hard to implement.

It's 2022. Can we export slide to PNG or JPG like we can do in PPT? be hugely handy when building a storyboard and scripting for stakeholders. I hate to snagit every slide but if i have to.... 

I was just looking this up to create an image of my first slide to use as my LMS content link, as well as the "cover photo" that displays when the storyline content launches.

This should be easier.  

Hi, is there a way for users to download JPEG now? I want users to make a customized avatar, download it and upload it on our website! Thanks 

Hi, Bob!

While there isn't a way to export a slide to JPEG in Storyline 360 yet, there is a workaround.

Follow these steps:

1. In the Home tab, click Publish

2. Click Word, then click PUBLISH

3. Open the newly export Word document

4. Right click an image

5. Click Save picture as

6. Choose PNG or JPEG

TIP: For the best quality image, make sure your slides are at full HD (1920x1080) resolution.

Thanks for reaching out!!

Thank you John for your reply. I actually meant is there a way that the users download something they have built as an image, not me?

I'd like them to use the avatar creation slide where they'll be creating a customized avatar, which then I'd want an option for them to download and save. 

Hi Bob,

The option to download and save an entire slide isn't available in Storyline 360, but exporting parts of a slide, like images or characters, can be done. Just right-click on the image and click Export picture and choose Save Picture.

I hope that can help!

Friendly reminder that this feature would be amazing to have. Bye.

Hi Bob,

Sorry just revisiting this thread and saw your comment.  Storyline has released an update that allows you to 'print' any slide now. While not 'saving' per se, all the browsers I'm aware of do let you 'print to PDF' which essentially just saves the slide as a pdf. May need some additional instructions for the learner to walk them through it, but they could definitely work through your interaction to build their avatar and then 'print to pdf' to save what they have built.  You can even set the 'print' function to a layer which is pretty handy. Hope it's helpful, cheers

Where can I find more info about this? :-) Is that a feature you activate with a trigger? Javascript? menu? thanks :-)

Hi Leonel,

You can learn more about the new 'Print Slide Trigger' here: 

• Storyline 360: Print Slide Trigger

Let me know if you need anything else!

Amazing. Thank you!

Here's an additional workaround to avoid manually "saving as" each image.

Once you have the Word document, easily access the images within by changing the file extension from ".docx" to ".zip". Click yes to allow change, then unzip the folder. Now, navigate to the 'word' folder within, then 'media'. All images from the document live here now - you can copy/rename like a normal image, as well as use a conversion/merging tool to create a PDF with select/all images. Hope this helps!