New in Storyline 360: Text Autofit Enhancements

Hi everyone,

We wanted to update you on what we’re doing to address your concerns about recent text autofit enhancements.

While text autofit delivers necessary enhancements that ensure all learners can access and read the text in your courses, we’ve heard from many of you that it has negatively impacted your authoring experience in Storyline 360. When a project is upgraded to use text autofit enhancements, unexpected scroll bars sometimes appear. These scroll bars are due to text areas having extra lines, text, or other elements that overflow the bounds or margins of the shape. They always existed but are now made obvious by the scrollbars. We realize that making these autofit enhancements active by default has resulted in extra work for some of you, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience and frustration we’ve caused.

There’s work underway to refine the feature, and we’ve recently released an update that increases the default widescreen slide size to 960 x 540, giving you more space to work with and alleviating some of the unexpected scroll bars. In the coming weeks, we’ll also release an update that temporarily disables the default autofit feature while we make more improvements.

Our accessibility work is a journey, and we’re bound to face a few uphill climbs and detours. Thank you for being our partner on this journey. We’re grateful to have your feedback to learn and grow from.

Simon Taghioff
Product Manager, Articulate 360