Timeline preview vs Preview this slide
Jan 23, 2019
By
Sam Carter
I have questions surrounding why a font we use displays differently when the slide is rendered via the timeline vs slide preview.
First question: What rendering engine is used for each? I have some recollection that it may be Adobe Flash is used for one while IE's HTML5 engine is used for the other. Is that the case?
So here's the font we're using: Bahnschrift Light SemiCondensed. A TrueType font. Nothing fancy.
Now what follows are screenshots to show the difference:
The following shows the fonts side-by-side:
Here's the full snapshot of Slide Preview:
Here's the full snapshot of the design view/timeline view:
8 Replies
Hi Sam,
Storyline 360 continues to depend on Flash in 2 additional areas (Timeline Preview and Player Properties Preview), and we are targeting Q2 of 2019 to move away from Flash in these areas as well.
So, as you suspected it looks like you're seeing the difference between the Flash and HTML5 rendering of those fonts. Can you also check whether you have modern text enabled?
Hi Ashley,
This is interesting but I have one concern that the Flash rendering shown above is correct.
The "Slide Preview" rendering of the font is incorrect. We wonder what font the HTML5 engine is using instead of the specified font.
We are using "modern text" if that is of any help.
Hi Sam,
We'd love to do some more digging into this. Would you mind sharing the Bahnschrift Light SemiCondensed font installation file with me? I'd like to test it on my side.
You can send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll be standing by!
Hi Alyssa,
Bahnschrift is a standard font shipped with Windows 10. Testing this on a Windows 10 computer would be the best way to reproduce this issue.
Thanks, Sam. I have that font installed and was able to see what you're describing where it looks bold in the preview and published output. I took a quick Peek video the differences here. I'll share this with the team and promise to keep you posted here.
I would characterize the problem as not displaying properly in Preview which uses the HTML5 engine.
I am having the same issue with Bahnschrift. It looks fine in development, but the different weights do not show up when I preview or publish the file. Has a solution been found for this problem?
Hello Charlie!
Thank you for checking in! Unfortunately, we still see this behavior in Storyline 360 (Build 3.49.24347.0) as well. This bug hasn't made it on our roadmap as we are currently prioritizing other bug fixes and feature requests for upcoming releases. We'll return to this discussion if our team decides to reroute and add this to our roadmap.