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Svg files for SL360 on the roadmap?
Hi, wonder if and when you are planning to let SL360 support svg images?
At the risk of trodding on TP's toes and corrupting his excellent walkthrough, I'd like to illustrate his methodology with some images that do show that the end result is an imported SVG shape and not a rasterized image within Storyline.
This is a logo in Illustrator. Simplified to four shape paths. The text and lines are compound paths and the star and its outline are simple shape paths that don't need to be 'compounded.
This is the exported SVG after being imported into Powerpoint. As you can see it's looking good (awesome design).
This is the voodoo-ish part. After the Powerpoint slide has been imported into your Storyline file you will end up with an invisible mess like this.
But don't worry, the logo is there, as you can see from the Timeline. There are 4 layers corresponding to the 4 paths within the SVG file.
Yeah, this is the weird part I don't get myself. 90% of the time the SVG imports perfectly, but sometimes there is a distortion, as TP mentions. This is easily rectified, as he explains, by referring to the original dimensions of your vector file.
Once we correct the dimensions the logo is in Storyline and looking pretty good. But we want it to look like the original so we just select the shapes, because they are shapes, and fill with whatever colour we want.
And here you can see I have decided to make the middle star white and the 'outline' shape red. It looks awesome and is full of vectory goodness.
Diarmaid... I wanted to make sure to thank you for your replies as well. The visuals are always helpful.
Perhaps you can try the artboard suggestion I made in my above comment to see if that fixes the distortion issue for you. I feel like maybe they're using the overall stage dimensions as their guide when importing PPT slides. So if your artboard is not exactly the same dimensions as the PPT or SL stages, we get the distortion. But with no artboard space outside the overall size of the shapes you're bringing over, there's nothing to try and line up... and the shapes appear as they should.
Maybe this is just in my case, with the shapes I used. But it sounds plausible.
Anyway, thanks again!
