SL360 Find Font

Until this feature is added, one workaround would be to replace a certain font with one that stands out (e.g. Goudy Stout, Wingdings). This will make the fonts more noticeable when scanning through the project. I hope it can get better than this soon, though.

Brett Hill
Blake Learning Solutions

I'm curious as to what "tracking" means?

• Counting the votes?
• Working on implementing?
• Haven't removed it from our list?
• Not doing anything other than considering it?

Another vote for this feature. I have no idea where a particular font is in a course I was just given to update (created by another contractor several years ago). I need to find the instances where a specific font was used so I can check them. I'll try someone else suggested and use the "replace" option to replace it with a BOLD font so I can see it quickly (I hope). 

Hi Sam, there is no find font option so I guess it is an all or none situation. Nor is there a place that shows all the fonts that you are using. The only way to figure this out right now is to use the translation export function to export the text to a Word document. You can then look through the doc to see what fonts are used.

@Ashley, what Sam is asking is if there is a way of locating an instance of a font on a slide or slides and then just replacing the font for those instances. The way you have implemented this new feature is that you have to replace all instances of the font. 

I'm going to bump this up again. Not that Nancy's solution doesn't work, but FIND font in SL 360  is needed.

I just did a find/replace in SL 360 to replace a font on some unknown piece of text in a large course.  I had no idea where the text was among the many slides and layers. Seems like replacing Droid Sans with Open Sans shouldn't be much of an issue.

Unknown to us, the replacement font had a slightly larger kerning.  When the customer review process found the single piece of text that was using Droid Sans, the text had wrapped and fallen out of the bottom of the container. This took several hours to identify.

So this isn't a non-issue. SL 360 has a find/replace. When will SL 360 come up with a find font?

Sam

Hi, Any updates on the Font find option? I too would find it very useful and time saving.

We sometimes have to change a font as it is no longer available, won't work with the course changes or the vendor that originally built the course used a font we need to replace.

Right now we either have to go slide by slide to find instances of the font or hire the vendor (where possible) to show us where it is used.

I like Brian Allen's idea of the find/replace option that jumps to the next instance of the font in the course, for us to view.

Thanks

+1 for a find (only) feature please. I'm keen to track down where some of the fonts are being used in projects that I have been given before doing a global "replace".

This thread is a good indication of how long it takes to get a feature authors need.

Thank you for that context, Philip. It really helps us understand the need. While this isn't on our immediate roadmap, we're tracking requests for a Find Font feature. We'll share the news with you here if we make any changes.

+1 for a "Find Font" feature. Technically speaking, the backend is already programmed into the "Replace font" feature.