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MaraWaldruff1's avatar
MaraWaldruff1
Community Member
12 years ago

Marker text shadow removal

Hello!

I am wondering how to remove the background shadow of the title text in a Marker. It appears to be the Marker default setting and within the text icons (bold, italic, underline etc.) the shadow option is grayed out. Does anyone have any insight?

  • Hi Ashley,

    I'm using SL1. I've uploaded a stripped example of the slide with markers:

    - markers are placed on the layer

    - there's a difference between numbered markers (with shadows) and markers with icons (without shadows)

    - after selecting a marker, look at the tab 'change icon': there are no shadows at all...

    Thx in advance!

  • Glad that helped Matthijs and sorry it took me a moment to get there!  

    Have a great weekend. 

  • DanGraham1's avatar
    DanGraham1
    Community Member

    I'm experiencing a the same problem discussed in the initial post.  I can't seem to remove the Text Shadow from the Marker titles.   It doesn't seem to matter which Label Style I pick.  I tried clearing the formatting.  I tried pasting in some non-subscript text with it's formatting.  Alas, no dice. 

    What's even weirder, is I have one marker on screen that has no text shadow.   And I can't figure out how that happened either.  I'm posting my slide here, in case anybody has figured this out in the last year.  

  • Hi, Dan -- Thanks for reaching out and for sharing your file. This seems to be a case that would benefit from some more in-depth investigation by the folks on our Support Engineering team. I would be happy to set you up in a case momentarily, and I will be sure to follow along with their progress to share updates here for others who may benefit. 

  • KaylaBurtch's avatar
    KaylaBurtch
    Community Member

    Has anyone managed to resolve this?

    I find that if I choose the only flat option (First row) I can only have no shadow if I choose a dark color (Black, dark purple, dark blue) but as soon as a choose white or off-white it adds a shadow with no imput from me. Why? Ugh!

    Our branding is flat design with no shadows and no gradients, but storyline is CONSTANTLY adding shadows and gradients of it's own accord.

    I spend more time trying to undo Storyline's "help" than anything else! 

    • KaylaBurtch's avatar
      KaylaBurtch
      Community Member

      In case this comes up for others - which I'm sure it will... my workaround is as follows:

      Choose "no icon"

      Click the marker. Click "Edit states."

      Imput my own shape/picture as an icon inside the state. Position as wanted. Copy and paste to any other states.

      Use the format painter to cause the same icon to populate all of my markers. 

      Cheers!

  • Hi, Karla -- I looked in on Dan's case and it appears that our support engineers ultimately replied as follows: "I have submitted your case to our Quality Assurance team for their review. Unfortunately I was unable to determine a workaround. I cannot offer a time frame for when or if this issue will be resolved."

    Thanks for sharing your workaround, and hopefully it will help others who are experiencing the same issue. 

  • Hi, Mhairi.

    Since several subjects are being discussed here, I want to make sure I fully understand your question. Are you having trouble removing the shadow from the marker icon or the text within the marker label? Which version of Storyline are you using?

     

      • LaurenConnelly's avatar
        LaurenConnelly
        Staff

        Thanks for clarifying! We don't have an option to remove the shadow, but you might consider removing the Animation and the Fill Color. Here's a quick look at what markers look like with and without the pulse animation.