Slide size change is irreversible - space added and no fine tuning
Jun 07, 2023
It used to be easy to fine-tune the slide size once a slide was built, but now it's just trouble.
I've built a multi-layer slide and I want to take 50px off the top and 90px off the bottom to fit nicely into a Rise course. Now there's no way to do this. The only option is to scale to fit - ie squash the whole content. So I compromised and took the 90px off the bottom (the default action, with scaling turned off). Then when I tried to reverse this, Storyline added space to the top and bottom of my slide size! And then the undo ran out. So it's worse than before. The only way I can think to fix it, is to manually move all layers and realign in a new version with a smaller slide size preset.
The older version (a year ago) asked where we wanted to realign content after the slide is made smaller/larger - e.g. align content to the top, bottom, middle. This worked perfectly. The current way creates a lot of extra work.
Any suggestions welcome.
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I've just tried 'lock aspect ratio' of every object of every layer. But objects still distorted when changing slide size using 'scale to fit'
Hi Paul!
It sounds like you were having some issues resizing your slides without compromising the format of the content you've built into them. I'd be happy to help out with that!
As a workaround for this, I would suggest:
You should see the slides automatically port over to the new project file, with the new slide size, while still retaining the format of the original content.
Please let me know if this works for you or if you have any more questions!
Thank you for all the effort you went to. My goal is to reduce the white space at the top and bottom, to fit it more seamlessly into Rise. Unfortunately the white space at the top and bottom hasn't gone, the content has done a 'scale to fit' to match the new slide size. This is also what happens when I change the slide size inside a project.
I've done some preliminary testing and it looks like I can copy all layers to a new narrow slide, and then realign manually. I'll set up an reference object on every layer so that I can realign them easier.
Reminiscing, the pre-Sept 2021 storyline made this much easier. (I looked back through the version history for when it went wrong!)
This is still not the best solution. I created a new storyline with a narrower slide, set the theme colours to match the original (this must be done first. Changing the theme after had no impact on my shapes). I then copied over the base content with triggers and then each layer. I then needed to manually set up all base layer triggers (these would not copy over effectively). Then I re-enter the links between the base and each layer. ...Just to trim the slide size.
I'm having problems resizing Storyline 360 slides. I can change the size to W: 720px and H: 260px (36:13 ratio), but when viewed in 'story view' (not scene view), the slide is still 4:3 ratio. When I publish the file and upload it to Learndash, the file is in 4:3 ratio, so I have massive white space above and below the slide content. Why is it that the slide size function in the design tab doesn't reduce the slide size and is there a work around?
Hello Karina!
Thanks for sharing your Storyline project in a support case! I see you've connected with my teammate, Matthew, who recommended using the Classic Player or going for a chromeless design, as the Modern Player scales smoothly to fill the learner's browser on every device and screen size, causing the resolution to auto-adjust.
Let's continue the conversation in your support case, but I'm happy to assist further as needed!