SL360 Find Font

See under Home>Find/Replace>Replace Fonts

Hi Sam,

Did you complete the recent update for Articulate 360? It was included in that update as shown here:

If you haven't done the update yet the "Find" feature will show as "Find Text" 

Hi Sam - the last update implemented Detect Missing Fonts as well as Replace Fonts, but not 'Find'.  It sounds like you are wanting to find the specific font within the course? You are welcome to share your thoughts with our product development team here if this is something you would like to see.

Hi Sam, there is no find font option so I guess it is an all or none situation. Nor is there a place that shows all the fonts that you are using. The only way to figure this out right now is to use the translation export function to export the text to a Word document. You can then look through the doc to see what fonts are used.

@Ashley, what Sam is asking is if there is a way of locating an instance of a font on a slide or slides and then just replacing the font for those instances. The way you have implemented this new feature is that you have to replace all instances of the font. 

What is at issue is font replacement can change the size and text wrapping. It would be time saving to see the text before and after the replacement. 

Thanks Nancy for clarifying - I hadn't read it that way, but luckily Leslie and you did. :-)

Also good insight to share here Sam, and if you haven't already you'll want to pass along to our team here. 

I'm going to bump this up again. Not that Nancy's solution doesn't work, but FIND font in SL 360  is needed.

I just did a find/replace in SL 360 to replace a font on some unknown piece of text in a large course.  I had no idea where the text was among the many slides and layers. Seems like replacing Droid Sans with Open Sans shouldn't be much of an issue.

Unknown to us, the replacement font had a slightly larger kerning.  When the customer review process found the single piece of text that was using Droid Sans, the text had wrapped and fallen out of the bottom of the container. This took several hours to identify.

So this isn't a non-issue. SL 360 has a find/replace. When will SL 360 come up with a find font?

Sam

Thanks Sam and Brian - and all good feedback to have. Especially in terms of the differences in fonts and how they may change the layout on the slide in question. 

Until this feature is added, one workaround would be to replace a certain font with one that stands out (e.g. Goudy Stout, Wingdings). This will make the fonts more noticeable when scanning through the project. I hope it can get better than this soon, though.

Brett Hill
Blake Learning Solutions

Hi, Any updates on the Font find option? I too would find it very useful and time saving.

We sometimes have to change a font as it is no longer available, won't work with the course changes or the vendor that originally built the course used a font we need to replace.

Right now we either have to go slide by slide to find instances of the font or hire the vendor (where possible) to show us where it is used.

I like Brian Allen's idea of the find/replace option that jumps to the next instance of the font in the course, for us to view.

Thanks