Not urgent, but I was wondering if Storyline reuses duplicate images (like Flash and Captivate) or are those being added as new graphics every time you insert them.
Example: I am using the same exact star graphic 4 times in a project. Is the file size duplicated 4 times or is Storyline smart enough to know that it is the same graphic?
Is there a gallery or assets folder that I am not seeing?
Hey Phil, just for clarification are you saying that if you use the import feature (as opposed to duplicating slides or copying the image within SL) to import the same image that SL will treat this as a new image?
Wow awkward sentence but hopefully you get what I mean.
I remember a reply from Brian or possibly Arlyn that said Storyline is clever and tracks if you duplicate and copy and paste images, but if you keep inserting the image it isn't clever enough to know they are different images so stores them separately. I may be wrong but this does make sense to me. I have a habit of calling images the same thing and then importing them, there is arisk here that they could get confused (I know I do).
Interesting - I have a tendency to use the import function instead of trying to hunt around in the slides or layers when I want to reuse an image. I am going to have to stop doing this if SL actually makes a copy each time I do this.
Tom, has a cool tip where he uses a scene as a scratch pad, he creates images, stores images and does his mind mapping in that scene and uses them from there.
I think its a great idea because in theory if you use the images in your slides the Story file shouldnt be much larger. Also if you have to revisit a presentation after finishing it all the assets are in the presentation and you dont need to go searching for them.
That's a good temporary tip. I think an asset library/manager would be nice as a future feature. Where is the link to suggest features? I can't seem to find it.
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Storyline is smart enough to know that it is the same graphic.
Yep. Only time the image is duplicated is if you rescale it. A new image is exported for html5 when you scale a copy.
Images are stored within the story file. A library or asset profiler would be super handy.
As steve says its only if you duplicate it within storyline otherwise it is classed as a new image
Hey Phil, just for clarification are you saying that if you use the import feature (as opposed to duplicating slides or copying the image within SL) to import the same image that SL will treat this as a new image?
Wow awkward sentence but hopefully you get what I mean.
I remember a reply from Brian or possibly Arlyn that said Storyline is clever and tracks if you duplicate and copy and paste images, but if you keep inserting the image it isn't clever enough to know they are different images so stores them separately. I may be wrong but this does make sense to me. I have a habit of calling images the same thing and then importing them, there is arisk here that they could get confused (I know I do).
Interesting - I have a tendency to use the import function instead of trying to hunt around in the slides or layers when I want to reuse an image. I am going to have to stop doing this if SL actually makes a copy each time I do this.
Tom, has a cool tip where he uses a scene as a scratch pad, he creates images, stores images and does his mind mapping in that scene and uses them from there.
I think its a great idea because in theory if you use the images in your slides the Story file shouldnt be much larger. Also if you have to revisit a presentation after finishing it all the assets are in the presentation and you dont need to go searching for them.
That's a good temporary tip. I think an asset library/manager would be nice as a future feature. Where is the link to suggest features? I can't seem to find it.
that would be here http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php?form=feature
Nice idea for an asset library
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