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Can I insert a PDF into a course slide?
Hi All,
Does anyone know if I can add a PDF document to be viewed as a slide?
I want to insert a glossary into my course and I would like to do this using a lightbox slide which contains a tabl...
Hi I'd like some help with this! It should be very basic but I cannot work out how to link to a PDF file (currently stored on my PC) using an object that the user clicks on to open the PDF in a new tab! The published file will be delivered via an LMS.
I was told and have seen from googling that when you create the link (using the trigger) Storyline apparently stores the PDF file within the published output files - however this is not the case. There's no external file content in there!
I've tried using the resources within the player which isn't although isn't ideal (as we really don't want the resources tab visible in the course) it still didn't work. I've tried copying the files to the published output folder but that still doesn't work! Help please!
Also as I've been reading through this thread the lightbox feature sounds like a great idea - but that earlier link doesn't work - would be great if that could be explained too! Would it work to allow the user to download a copy of the PDF to their device?
Thanks
I just worked it out! I thought I'd tried everything,... Just in case anyone else needs this: I saved the trigger file name as story_content/filename.pdf then in the zipped output open the story_content folder (which doesn't include an external files folder) add the document (with the same file name there). Relieved - it's been annoying me for ages...
I'm posting this because I just spent most of a day trying to get this to work. I think it may be a bug, but before I submit it, I'll clarify what Rebecca was saying above.
I'm embedding a .pdf into my .story file by using a web object that references an index.html file - both files are on my local drive, but I want them wrapped up in the Storyline export because I don't have a web server to host them on. However, when I publish the file, the .pdf will only display if I have it on my local drive in the exact same folder it was in before. Storyline is publishing with an absolute path, not relative, and it's pointing to my C: drive.
I go digging around in the published folder structure, and I notice there aren't any subfolders under the story_content directory, which is odd, because if there are files to be included, that's where they should be located. I published and re-published a dozen times, moving files around, changing names, etc, etc, when I came across Rebecca's post. At this point, I didn't have anything to lose, so I tried moving the index.html and the .pdf files into an arbitrary folder named story_content, and then published my file. POW - the published story_content folder now had a WebObjects subdirectory, and further down, I found my two files in there:
Basically, if you're having trouble with Storyline including content for a web object, this might be your solution. Create a random story_content folder and drop your web object content in, then publish. It seems to force Storyline to create the folder structure it needs to in order to embed those files.
