Outlines Appear on Some Objects When Importing from PowerPoint to Storyline
Jan 17, 2019
By
Nick S
We've noticed that when importing slides from PowerPoint to Storyline 3.5, a dashed outline border appears on some of the textboxes.
Some testing shows that this occurs in either .PPT or .PPTX formats. Common occurance is when a textbox is added to the stage with a Blank layout applied, or when adding text to a blank shape (no fill, no outline) but with text applied.
When in Storyline, the object has an outline in the working file, but does not appear in the published version. The concern is that the outline DOES appear when printing the content to Word (via images).
Is there way this can be prevented? .pptx, .story, and .doc file attached.
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for those files and description! I see the same behavior while testing in Storyline 3 Update 5 and Storyline 360, build 3.23.17480.0. What I did notice, is it's only on the rectangles you've added with no shape/fill, and it's not occurring on standard text boxes.
I'll share this example with my team as a possible software bug, and keep you posted here with any updates.
Thanks for bringing this one to our attention!
One edit: as a workaround, you can apply a transparent line to the shape and that did not show while editing or when published to Word.
That is a pretty good workaround, actually. We've been setting the outline colour to be the same as the background colour, but then we get an issue where when the object is animated in, it looks less than desirable.
To give some context on why this is an issue for us: when we import 50+ slides of instructor content, it can be quite onerous to convert all of these orphan boxes (usually because the slides were not created using a template, or ad-hoc).
Thanks for bringing this forward to your team.
Thanks for the additional information, Nick. I'm adding this to the report.
Is there an update yet on this issue?
Hi there, Blue. Not yet. It looks like you're seeing this behavior in the latest version of Storyline 360. I'll tag this discussion to be updated!
Any update on this issue? I am working on Storyline 360 v3.43.22859.0 and see the same issue as described above. I have over 40 slides and almost all of the text boxes have this issue. Any help (without having to update each of the boxes) would be appreciated. Thanks.
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