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Shapes change alignment in preview mode
BarbaraEdwar395: Weird—especially since the inner circle isn't centered in its bounding box.
As the staff would say, be sure you're working with the Storyline file on your local hard drive. (Because: working over a network can corrupt a file.)
You might also want to quit and then relaunch Storyline. (Because: gremlins.)
Then, try this: Delete those objects, and create new ones. (It's amazing how many "quirks" go away on a do-over.)
Potential workarounds so you only need one object:
- Line up the circles in editing mode, and then use Merge Shapes to combine them.
- Insert the smaller circle directly into the Normal state of the bigger circle.
- Create the concentric-circle effect by filling the big circle with a "gradient" fill that shifts from green to white at the desired intervals.
Great Question.
No states. Literally create shape - circle.
I'd chalk it up to the dimensions then. I had some luck getting good results in preview mode by manually adjusting the width and height of the images. Sometimes the issue for me is odd-numbered widths and heights previewing as one pixel off, but I have good reason to believe that the X, Y, width, and height values can also contain fractional values. As in, even though the width might show as 19px, it may actually be 18.62px or something, and that seems to complicate previews.
I've attached two images showing my edits to the left-most composite circle. In the slide-edit mode below, the inner circle of the furthest left composite seems to me to be one pixel too high while all of the others look fine:
But then in the Preview image below, the left-most one is the only one that looks centered while the second-from-left seems to have settled in the upper-right corner, the second-from-right in the bottom-left corner, and the right-most one in the bottom-right corner.
It's annoying to adjust images by pixels in the Drawing Tools menu, but it seems to be the best way. The usual clue to me that I've accidentally introduced fractional values is if I change a value with the Drawing Tools arrows and it either skips a value (from 19 to 21) or doesn't seem to change at all, suggesting to me that Storyline is either rounding the decimal up two steps or down zero steps respectively.
The same rounding errors can present in the X and Y.