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PayalTandon's avatar
PayalTandon
Community Member
14 years ago

Copy/Paste Images from one story to another

Is it just me or has someone else also seen this issue.  When I copy an image from a storyline file and paste it in another story file, all I see is the placeholder for the image.  The image does n...
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AshleyT-Pollard's avatar
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
8 years ago

Hi Martin,

If copying one whole slide to another project, importing it would definitely be my recommendation as that would keep all the items together and set up as you initially designed.  

With the latest version of Storyline 3 or 360, you can copy objects or groups of objects from Storyline and paste them into other applications.

  • Shapes, images, text boxes, or selected multiple objects will now copy, as arranged, to your clipboard with bitmap and png data. The program into which you paste the content will determine if the png or bitmap data is used, and will display as follows:

           ◂bitmap: image will display with a white background
           ◂png: image will display the original shape/group of shapes with no background. 
                     (MS Office will read this data).
  • If you have a single audio or video, you can copy and paste those into applications that support media file paths.
  • Highlighting and copying text within a text box will give you .txt or .rtf format for pasting.

Since you're seeing that copy/paste behavior have unintended consequences between two versions of Storyline, it would be helpful to see the steps you're going through and anything that could be hindering it. Also, since you mentioned corruption I wanted to point out some known causes of corruption here.