Text Autofit Improvements: Turn Off?

Hi, Mofidul.

Thank you for reaching out!

Take a look at the article below for the compatibility between Storyline 3 and Storyline 360:

• Compatibility Between Storyline 360 and Storyline 3 Project Files

As Ren mentioned above, starting with update 54 (July 2021), all new and existing projects that haven't upgraded project text will remain with the legacy settings. What this means is that if you create a new file and you don't choose to upgrade the text, you should be able to open it in Storyline 3.

Let me know if this answers your question.

Maria, thanks a lot for your reply. It is helpful and its a time saver. With much appreciation  - Mofid 

Hi, Bruce.

Thank you for opening a support case! I see you're working with Darwin to troubleshoot the issue. 

Please reach out through the case if you have additional questions. 

Hi All,

I had this same issue (autofit feature being applied in 360, rendering my file Storyline 3-incompatible) and was helped by Darwin at Articulate. He provided some instructions and a walkthrough video. This worked for me. Thought I would post here in case anyone else is experiencing this and needs help:

Here are the steps in the workaround:

1. Create a copy of the .story file.
2. Rename the duplicate file to .zip.
3. Extract the file to a folder.
4. In that folder, click docProps and then open featureManifest.xml in a text editor, such as Notepad++.
5. Remove the following line below:

<TextScrolling3 description-2052="?????????" description-1033="Text Autofit Improvements" description-1036="Améliorations de l'ajustement automatique du texte" description-1031="Verbesserte automatische Textfeldanpassung" description-10="Mejoras de ajuste automático de texto" />

6. Once you save your changes, select all the contents in the folder and extract them to a new compressed (zipped) folder.
7. Rename the new zip file to .story and open it in an earlier version of Storyline 360.

Here’s a video demonstration for reference:

https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F360.articulate.com%2Freview%2Fcontent%2F3f027979-c6ec-4c02-857a-4784c22c2886%2Freview&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C3f3125bd602e4402168a08da02b528f5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637825274347776429%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=EzfaTtW9iLAuTvGnWqz5YUnvDL81LY5me2msEIcDNmo%3D&amp;reserved=0

I hope this helps.

This solution is awesome, thanks a lot.

Allah senden razı olsun. Çok büyük bir işten kurtardın bizi :)

I just updated my Storyline 3 to the latest version.  Then I created a project and saved it.  When I tried to open in later, I got the message shown in the attachment.  WTF!

How can I open this file in Storyline 3?

How do I avoid this issue in the future? 

I just had the same problem.  I've never even had Storyline 360, so I don't know why this is happening.  I literally created this file yesterday with Storyline 3, tried to open it back up today on the same computer, and got this error message about text autofit.  Now what?  I need to finish working on this project!

Hi, everyone.

I genuinely think this feature is absolutely brutal. I've wasted hours and hours trying get rid of these bars on several courses but sometimes it's almost impossible. 

Trying to find help on this is like a needle in a haystack. Little articles here and there which just seem to confuse things more, going through articles on here saying read this post, go to this thread and read this post. 

I've got a meeting in half an hour where I'm going to have to delay the launch of a project because having wasted hours failing to locate the needle in this haystack.

Gone are the days when Articulate used to produce a simple video detailing clearly what you need to do things.