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"Before October 2021, SVGs in PowerPoint became shapes"
Per https://articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-360-SVG-Support
"Before October 2021, SVGs in PowerPoint became shapes"
And now they don't? This was a terrible decision. I hate this. I would rather have a clunky import process and be able to access the SVGs as shapes. How do I go back?
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in the articulate desktop app you can choose a previous version from the dropdown
This option will not last for very long. Also, whenever there is a bug, Articulate suggests updating, and also inserts new bug fixes into newer updates of course, so not a durable option.
Was there a announcement that I missed? Could you explain some more, please?
If others are struggling with this as well, consider switching over to emfs. PowerPoint can switch svgs to emfs.
Please tell me more about that!! I typically download SVGs from IconFinder; bring them into PPT where I convert them, then copy and paste into SL where I can change the image, break apart, recolor, etc... How do I do this with an EMF? I can't download EMFs from IconFinder...
I agree!!!!!!!
I just accidentally discovered that when copying and pasting from Adobe Illustrator to Storyline360 elements will be imported as .emf groups. Those groups you can ungroup. As is they can look weird and wrong, but mainly because sometimes a image will be generated for fills. You can delete those and keep a nice shape you can work with in Storyline. Let me show that with a sample.
If I make an icon in inkscape, I can...
- save it as a emf
- import it to Powerpoint
- Ungroup, then save as an emf
- import to Storyline
- Ungroup, and then use the color tools
There is probably a setting in Inkscape that I haven't yet found that could skip the import/save-as from PPT, but I haven't found it yet. I'm guessing the ungroup/save-as in PPT step will work for svgs imported from other sources.
Do try copy in Inkscape and paste into Storyline...
Alas this only works with Illustrator...Exactly my workaround. Thank you very much for sharing.
That pastes an svg, and you lose that color functionality.
Copying an element in Adobe Illustrator and then pasting it into Storyline...and you get an .emf you can ungroup. Then you have shapes.
