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Can you copy a Zoom Region?
I'm working with a course where I would like to have "the same zoom" on multiple slides. I found how to change the zoom speed, but I don't find anything that tells me the zoom size and position. I also don't seem to have functionality to copy and paste a zoom region from one slide to another. Is there anyway, other than eye-balling it, to make identical zoom sizes on multiple slides? The timing will be different, but I want the size and placement to match.
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Finally! We can now copy a Zoom region!
Hello everyone, 🎉
I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 99, we’ve included essential fixes and new features. One of the new features we’ve included is:
- Copying and Pasting Zoom Regions
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help.
Exciting news! Thank you!!
Also, this may be a "wish list" item, but it would be great to have 6 or 8 resize handles on the Zoom region instead of 4 (for each corner), for better zoom control and positioning. Fingers crossed!Hello PatriciaDent-fc,
Thanks for your feedback regarding the new feature on Zoom regions!
I think having more resize handles is a good idea, so I shared your request with our product team so they can look into it. We'll let you know if that modification makes it to a future Storyline update.
Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have additional suggestions or questions.
Congratulations on implementing this feature. It only took 12 years!
Apologies for the rant - this is taking far far longer than it should. I'm beginning to believe that Articulate have no interest in making their customers' lives easier, as long as a tool works they don't care that it wastes developers' time and money fudging things that should be easy. Why? Because it is not a shiny brand new tool. Rant over.
Not Perfect - but one get-out-of-jail card is to just use the standard preset zoom size, that can be dragged to each of the four corners. This can easily be replicated on the later slides.
However, this does not let Articulate off the hook. Come on guys, enough already!
Zooming on a software simulation is painful. Are there any updates on whether this will be an enhancement in the future? Even if copy-and-paste is impossible, can we at least get the Size and Position numbers for the zoom box? I can then match the numbers on every slide.
I agree!
I can't believe this relatively simple request hasn't been implemented after NINE YEARS of asking. I also put in a feature request. Come on, Articulate! This would save your customers thousands of hours of tedious workarounds.
Limited resources, also I imagine there are just too few of us who want the feature.
They prefer to spend their development time on exciting new tools, and are not interested in improving stuff they have already finished. I guess that 'Improved zoom' is not as exciting to market as 'New AI features', even though both will save tons of development time for their customers.
Hi folks, if you want to add the same zoom to a number of already developed slides, you can try this trick. (Yeah it's still a faff, but it's easier and more accurate than doing it by hand). Please let me know how you get on.
- Apply the zoom to the first zoom slide as normal
- Duplicate the slide
- On the duplicated slide delete all of the objects (Except the zoom)
- If you want to use this zoom over several slides, duplicate this slide again once for each zoomed in slide.
- Copy all of the objects from each of your non-zoomed slide(s). and paste them into each of your new zoomed slides respectively.
- Delete the non-zoomed versions of your slides.
- If necessary, redo the zoom timings on all of your zoomed slides.
- The zoom on the first slide needs to start a fraction of a second or more after the slide starts (this is if you want to animate the zoom-in).
- Set this zoom to play until the end of the slide (So it does not zoom out).
- On your interim zoom slides set the zoom timeline so that it starts at the very beginning of the slide and stays there until the end (So there is no zoom in/out animation).
- On the last zoom slide make sure that the zoom completes at an appropriate time on the timeline before the end of the slide. (So it zooms out ready for the next non-zoomed slide)
- If necessary rename your zoomed slides back to their original names for your TOC.
I'm just guessing; I suspect that they are thinking that we developers will duplicate the previous slide and then rehash the Zoom for the next slides. That's OK for new projects, but it can be tricky/fiddly to do when updating modules.
100% spot on ^^
+1M! Over a decade later, how has this not been implemented yet!
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.
