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Replace image once to change its multiple occurences
Hello, been a long time...
I'm (re)working on a project split in multiple parts (say 20 .story files).
I need to change a picture in all those files. As it's the background of a top, foreground menu bar, it's been copied in every single slide of each file.
As Storyline has no library, I cannot update picture once for each .story file.
To make matters worse, Storyline "knows" this picture is unique because it appears only once as a swf in the output folder.
So, is there any workaround to dozens of "change picture" ?
- update and publish only one file and then find and replace the swf with the new swf-picture in any other published story folders
- explore .story source file and replace picture resource (have yet to find a way !)
- ???
Thanks !
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Hi, Pierre --
You may want to try adding the image to the slide master (as there is currently no way to update them all at once), and you are welcome to submit a feature request.
Hi Christie,
I can't have it in the slide master because it has to be in front of everything on the stage.
That's why it has been thoroughly pasted in a layer on a few hundred slides !
Pierre, submit the feature request. The more they hear the request the better our chances of seeing something in an update. I know this is one of my biggest requests.
I know, Brett, I've done many feature requests in the past (an I may have even asked for a library) and then came Storyline 2 and... well...
Anyway. Request done. But that won't swap my 100's of pictures in the next few weeks !
hi all,
i have already submitted a feature request, but then also is there any work around for this issue ???
I don't know an easy workaround. I think you'll just have to slog it out. Keeping my fingers crossed that we'll see a library or way to link to images like in InDesign or Quark allowing you to edit or replace images and have them flow back into the file.
If you just need to swap picture in the published output and don't need to alter content, here's what you can do :
- open a copy of your story file and change picture in one slide
- publish to a new folder
- open story_content folder of the newly published project and find the swf file that contains the new picture
- in your previous published project, find the swf that contains the "old" picture, copy its name. Rename the new swf and overwrite the old one with it. You should get picture swapped everywhere.
It works for me because both pictures have the same size.
Hi all,
Would this work the same way when publishing to html5?
thanks
It might be easier because every picture ends up in the "mobile" folder.
I suppose you just have to swap it there...
I made a quick test and it works !
Hey Pierre,
thanks! I´ve just run a quick test and seems to work! I guess you get optimum results when images are the same size, so I´ll keep this in mind but good to know.
