Use of characters from Storyline

They are in a proprietary format so can not be easily extracted.

You can right click save as, but really will need clarification on the licenses use before using in Presenter

This makes me wonder whether they can be used in other collateral relating to a course. For example a job aid, handout or poster created in InDesign could be thematically linked to the elearning module by way of the character, color palette and other visual themes. I would guess that the license wouldn't allow the use of the characters in this way. Any comments from the Articulate team?

Thanks.

Meanwhile, I just made a scene using them in Storyline and grouped the items and saved it as an image, then placed it on a sldie in Presenter. It's certainly the long way around.   I may just decide to set this course up in Storyline anyway. I was using Presenter because I'm more used to it and can work faster in that software.

I think characters will be available in the new Studio.

Jon, its strange you work faster in Studio, I am definitely at least 20% faster in Storyline

Thanks, Phil-

I acquired Storyline about three weeks ago and am not up to speed yet nor am I completely at ease with it.

It seems you can teach an old dog new tricks; it just takes longer.

I'm guessing I have about 30 years on you. When I was a youngster, television was still black and white and telephones had big, noisy dials on them. Computers? What the heck was a computer???

lol.

LOL, televison was Black and White when I was young, I even remember the dials.  but we did have computers

Hi there 

Could someone from Articulate please answer Brett's question? Can the characters and other artwork from Storyline be used in any other way - on web sites, PPTs, etc?

Thanks

KerryJ

Kerry, you might find this thread useful:

http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/26782/147313.aspx#147313

The hsort answer, though, is this (per the product page):  Licensing of the character packs permits use only with Articulate products.

Thanks Sheila!

@Sheila - that kind of limits its use doesn't it? I mean I would rather buy photos somewhere else if it means I can use it with other products like creating job aids and reference materials. Especially if a company uses Captivate and Articulate products to produce their material.

@Jerson - Yep, definitely more limited than if you buy your own images separately (depending on the images licensing agreement of course).  I think the trade-off is the built-in states, etc.  I agree that whether that trade-off is worth it depends on how much you're using non-Articulate tools, and how important it is to have continuity across the outputs from those tools.