Can you copy a Zoom Region?

I want to add my support for a Copy/Paste function for zoom regions so that the next slide looks identical to the previous one for continuity. At the very least, we should have control over size and placement so I can line it up with something other than my eye.

Disappointingly Articulate is also very tight-lipped about the whole thing and has not explained why they have completely failed to address this issue. Personally, I would feel less annoyed if they explained themselves.

Substantial pain point, we want to control zoom regions like shapes and be able to copy and paste.  9 years is way, way too long.  Frankly, I am surprised at some of the functions that you haven't been able to implement, I'm guessing this is a really hard one to do for some reason, or there are just too few of us who need to use it.  

I have raised a feature request for this

Hi everyone, In case you haven't already, you can raise a feature request.  Let's up the numbers here!  https://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request

Couldn't agree more!  Would love to see this copy Zoom region feature in the next update! 

I can't overstate the importance of a decent Zoom feature.  These days everyone is becoming more and more aware of user accessibility, and Articulate promotes some accessibility features.

While a lot of e-learning works along the line of PowerPoint on steroids, with bullet point lists, interactive tools, etc.

Many developers are also creating e-learning modules to train the use of Computer Software and they/we often will make use of the Storyline player to wrap around the subject matter/Software images, with SL menu items and a table of contents, etc.  This border takes up screen space that reduces the available space for the image of the subject being discussed, resulting in smaller text and objects  - often to the extent that these are no longer legible. 

This effect worsens when we consider Accessibility for learners with visual impairments.

In these scenarios it is really important to have the ability to zoom in on specific regions of the subject image, to clarify and highlight the current topic of interest.

Thankfully Storyline does do this.

However, it is often necessary to keep the zoom area fixed over a number of slides.  And by not having any numerical means of setting/matching the zoom areas, Developers either have to do this by eye- which can result in unprofessional and jerky slide transitions. Or they need to duplicate the first zoomed slide and base the rest of them on it.

This of course may be acceptable when creating new eLearning modules from scratch, but it can be very, very time-consuming when updating pre-existing modules.

Having a zoom feature was one of the main requirements my colleagues and I had when we decided to subscribe to the Articulate software suite of products.

Please Fix this issue.

Many thanks 

This is a fundamental design feature, and should be implemented into the software. 

I really hope they will implement a fix for this very soon, I have another Sim project and I am seriously not looking forward to hours of trying to line up Zooms, even with the grid its painfully slow and if its so much as a millimetre out it stutters and looks unprofessional.

Sadly, it appears that Articulate doesn't implement feature requests, this is one of many fundamental issues which have been outstanding for years. 

Come on everyone, get your colleagues to contribute to this discussion, Fixing this will make our development lives a lot easier and our work look a lot more professional.

Let us all show Articulate how much this means to us and finally get it fixed in 2023!

Thanks