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Find instance of a font
I know this is a long shot, but it would save me a lot of frustration. One of the courses I'm working on has some missing fonts that are not installed on my computer. I'm having trouble finding all of the places where those fonts are used. Is there any way to search the Storyline file, somehow, to locate every instance of those fonts? Or automatically change them to a different font? (I'd prefer to locate them rather than automatically changing them, so I can make sure the new font looks ok.)
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What do you do when you have replaced the same font over and over again and it still shows as missing every time you open the story? I am using Articulate 360
Hi Melanie!
Is this happening with multiple fonts or a specific font that you've changed back and forth?
I'd like our Support Engineers to work with you directly. I've opened a case on your behalf and escalated it to their team. You should've just received an email confirming the case, including an upload link if you're comfortable sharing your .story file. You'll hear from our team shortly!
Just one, I got tired of the warning and downloaded the font in question, but I never saw where it was at and I went into every part of the file and clicked on text to find it since replace font did not work. If would be a great feature if you could go to where the the word in question was located to see where it was at exactly.
I like the Find / Replace Fonts feature, but is there actually a way to find where the font is located? I need to ensure that spacing isn't effected with the replacement font.
duplicate your storyline file and replace the missing font with "Libre Barcode 39 Text" (-> google) or another ecotic font -> so you can see - when you open the slides - where your missing font is used
Hi, Michael!
Finding a font in your Storyline course is a great idea for a feature request and others think so too! A feature request has already been submitted for this. This conversation is being linked to that request, so if it makes it onto our feature roadmap, we’ll make sure to update you!
Thanks for reaching out!
The program can obviously find fonts and yet that functionality is not available to the user. There is NO WAY I am going to blindly change fonts in a 200+ slide project and this makes the replace fonts command effectively useless.
I haven't been using this program very long but when searching for help, I've seen ten year old posts about features that should ABSOLUTELY be included in the UI and a staff member says "make a feature request." Ten years later, the feature is still not a part of the UI.
It's like going to the Microsoft site with a problem and see "This thread is locked." What that phrase really means is, "We know about it and we're not going to do anything about it."
So, users are left complain amongst themselves until one day, some brilliant soul develops a product that actually meets the users' needs and the old company is scratching their heads wondering where they went wrong. At our company, we're seriously thinking of going back to Captivate. It makes me sad because Captivate is like using the old WordPerfect. Word came along with no more Ctrl+Shift+? commands and poof!, they were gone. Your software is pretty good, but by listening to people who actually use it, your software COULD be great! Be great!
Hi Jurgen. Thanks for the suggestion, but I've actually tried that (with Wingdings), but due to the number of slides and number of layers and the Slide Masters, it is not feasible.
yes, unfortunately storyline is to be used at all really efficiently. The only way is to access the story source file directly - and that is complicated and unfortunately not documented at all.
usually only the tedious time-consuming manual work remains - but this is the usual problem of wyswyg tools
When I inherit a project from someone and I have to blindly replace a font that could potentially misalign visuals, cut off text, or clutter up an existing slide, it's incredibly frustrating. Ten years on, this is a function we absolutely need in this software.
Hi Carlos!
Thanks for sharing the feedback!
I've included you in the feature report and will provide updates if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap. In the meantime, for your reference, here's a deeper look at how we manage feature requests.
