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MikeOlivieri-6f
Former Staff
5 years ago

New in Storyline 360: Text Autofit Enhancements

We know how important it is for all learners to easily access and read the text in your courses, which is why we’re excited about the improvements we’ve made to the text-authoring experience in Storyline 360. With the text autofit improvements we’ve just released, you have new ways to manage text elements, more control over your text, and easier ways to make your text accessible. Here’s a quick summary of these improvements. 

Greater control over text

Three new text autofit options help you preserve your preferred font size and prevent text from automatically shrinking.  Now you can choose from “expand width,” “expand height,” and “fixed size” options. Read more about each of these autofit options and see the difference between the old and new approaches in this article.

More precision over the size of your text box 

Before, when you tried to resize a text box to your preferred size, it would automatically default to the height of the first line of text. With the new text autofit enhancements, you can now easily set the precise size of your text box regardless of the amount of text.

Having more precision also means you have a more accurate view of how your text will appear in the published output.

Faster workflow for a smoother experience

Now, with a single click, you can quickly toggle between different autofit options to accomplish more in less time.

Improved readability across browsers

Since accessible text is HTML text, it can display differently across browsers. With text autofit improvements, now you can easily adjust the text elements and remove scroll bars before learners see them.

We hope you’ll love the enhanced authoring speed and flexibility and greater control that comes with these new text autofit improvements. To learn even more, check out Storyline 360: Text Autofit Improvements and Accessible Text Features in Storyline 360.

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  • I could use some expletives to describe the handling of the Autofit issue in Storyline 360, but others have done a good job without being nasty. 

    This saga continues as the Articulate designers have managed to install a related issue into the latest update to Storyline 3.  Users, including myself, have installed the latest update to Storyline 3 only to find ourselves facing the "can't open this file" problem after creating or editing work with the new update. 

    I am only using Storyline 3.  How can I create a file that I can't open?  This only happens with the latest upgrade.  This autofit thingy is spreading worse than COVID.

    WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE CHARGE AND GET THESE ISSUES FIXED.

  • Hi, Victor.

    Thank you for sharing the screenshot of what you're experiencing, and I’m so sorry for the trouble!

    Our team is aware of this issue, and our engineers are currently working on a fix. We’ll update you with more information very soon.