problem with trigger print

Feb 01, 2023

good morning

I am trying the PRINT function in ST360.

I created a trigger in the player (in a tab)

it works (I ask for a PDF file) but the problem is that it's very small in the end: I can see the project interface well but it takes up half the sheet and I can enlarge it a little bit before printing.

it's as if it takes into account a larger HMI

does anyone have an explanation

thank you

francois
10 Replies
francois marais

Re hello

somes new informations about my problem.

my slides size is 1920x1080

I display the course on a 2560x1600 screen

and in fact, the impression of the slide is "correct" if we launch the course in a window window whose size will not exceed 1024x720 otherwise it becomes smaller and smaller if we enlarge the size of the window window which contains the Classes
John Morgan

Hi Francois,

Good news! After testing your file, I think I found the reason for your print issue. It looks like it might be a print setting and not a Storyline issue. Here is a Peek recording to help you through it.

Our print windows are different. Try finding the setting by clicking the 3 dots button at the top right.

I hope this helps!

francois marais
Hello John

new day, new information. With what you told me (thanks again), it gave me ideas.

so I did some tests. The result is very interesting:

with Chrome and Edge, it works

with Firefox (browser of preference), there, it is surprising:

if I use the print of the Storyline course, I have a small image

but if I directly use the "print" command of the browser, it's OK!!

So the question is, what print settings does Storyline use?

knowing that I tried on another PC and there, it works well directly with ST360

interesting no?

Francois
Jose Tansengco

Hello Francois,

Thanks for the additional information. I can confirm that I was able to observe the same behavior on my end - bigger print image when I use the browser print feature, and a smaller print size when I use Storyline 360's built-in print button. 

Here are some of my observations: 

  • The Print slide Storyline 360 trigger only prints the area of the slide
  • The browser print functionality prints the entire browser area. This is confirmed by the presence of the player button in this screenshot. 

     

I recommend using my colleague John's workaround, which is to increase the scale if you want a bigger image when using Storyline 360's built-in print functionality. 

Jürgen Schoenemeyer

here are some tests with Firefox 109

now print

black rectangle above the slide

now Cancel

the navigation is half closed

now close complete

and print again

now a test with "Landscape"

with "Fit to page with", a blank second page is printed out

with "scale = 65" the same blank second page

with "scale=64"

now the second blank page is gone

and some other problems
 - 360° images will not be printed
 - videos will not be printed

Jürgen

francois marais

Hello

 
 
thank you for your messages. for Jean and Joe, I had already tried to modify the scale parameter but it didn't work well. because it seems that the image taken into account is larger than what we see and therefore in my case from 156, the image suddenly disappears. and before enlargement does not work well.

In short, in the end asks people to go through the "print" function of the browser....