Line spacing less than 1.0

I haven't had the pleasure of building for mobile yet. What looks bad about it? Is it fuzzy, unreadable, text breaking out of the box?  Also what mobile platform are you using for testing?

The line spacing is the major problem. There's no way to natively bring the first line closer to the second line without creating two textboxes (or something similar which is still highly undesirable) and fiddling with the margins. The same issue pops up with bulleted lists. A multiline bullet has the same vertical line spacing to the next bullet. It looks bad. Not to mention that subsequent lines don't line up with the first line. That's a whole other rant though.

The only way to get the line spacing you want is to use separate text boxes for each line of text. Text formatting features are very limited in a Storyline. 

Thanks Nancy. I figured this much but was hoping I was wrong.

Think of it as typesetting like they did in the old days then it won't seem as bad. Seriously though, if you turn on the Gridlines, make use of the Guides and make copious uss of the align tools it is a little less painful.

Nancy,

Typesetting in the old days? Really? I respect you soooooo much. That being said.

The thought of typesetting in the old days is not comforting thought; and I'm pretty dang sure none of the users of (inserts a current digital medium) current software have ever used a printing press..) I understand the spirit of the comment  however...that does not in any way justify a limitation of software to reduce the line height of text less than 1.0.

This would be a great feature request! (insert link here)

Hi Jesse,

If you need the link to submit a feature request, here it is! 

You can now set the "leading" (space between lines in a paragraph), by pressing the "Line Spacing" button, (see attached screen grab), and selecting "Line Spacing Options" at the bottom of the drop-down window.  Then, next to the Line Spacing option (bottom right of window), choose "Exactly" from the drop-down window, then in the last window, choose the point size, (matching your text font is usually ideal).  Voila!  

Thanks for popping in to share Mike! This was added for Storyline 2 :) 

I've had the same issue & Mike Fox pointed you in the correct direction. When you click on the icon & the Line Spacing Options a the bottom, a window opens. The last topic is Spacing. To choose the amount of space between separate lines of text, set the Before & After numbers. To change the line spacing on wrap around text, choose Line Spacing:  Exactly  At: 25pt (that is what looked best for my application).

Hope this helps!

Hi John,

Try adding a blank space and change the font to 3.

Agreed. I found this so frustrating. I though I just couldn't figure it out. I figured I could use two separate text boxes but I figured something so simple just had to be automated. I come here I find out it's not me, it's the software!

You should be able to set the paragraph settings now to exactly and do less than 1.

Hi Deb,

Phil's spot on here! In the Home tab, if you open up the Paragraph dialog box, you can set the Line Spacing to Exactly, and choose less than 1 pt. 

Hope this helps!