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Storyline: formatting notes font and background
Hi,
as many times happens, little need, big troubles. I simply want to change the font and background of the notes when they're displayed in the player layout; the need comes from a tool's trivial limitation: for the modern player, when the color scheme is set to dark, the notes background gets black but the font still stays black (it should be turned white, shouldn't it?) so you simply cannot read them.
Easy, I said, I just need to globally change the notes font color, should be easy, but it's not.
First I came across this discussion: https://community.articulate.com/series/74/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-add-slide-notes#format
It made it very easy, but I got mad before discovering that the advanced color settings menu mentioned in the post is only found in the classic player, not in the modern style; too bad, how am I supposed to be changing the notes defaults in that style? Ok, so I switched to classic layout, did the recommended steps but they don't work; so I had to switch also the player's color scheme to light, and finally the black font over the white background saved my life.
Two points: 1) please turn the font color automatically to light/white when selected color scheme is dark; 2) how can I get the font color I want by default with any player type/color scheme?
Thanks
Hello all!
Good news! In Storyline 360 (Build 3.85.31840.0), you can now instantly update the formatting of all slide notes in your project.
From here, all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!
If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Support team in a support case.
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This is an old thread, and I too am wondering if there is now a way to globally format notes pane text. I'm using the light modern theme, so color isn't really my issue, it's the teeny tiny font that's set as the default (9pt? Really?). I'm making accessible courseware and we really need to have a consistent font size. I, like others on this thread, am not wild about selecting and formatting hundreds of slides worth of notes. (Been there, done that, do NOT want to do it again.) Any new developments in newer versions of Storyline?
I would like to second the comment that the default 9pt font in the notes pane is ridiculously small.
Hello all!
Good news! In Storyline 360 (Build 3.85.31840.0), you can now instantly update the formatting of all slide notes in your project.
From here, all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!
If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Support team in a support case.
