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DarbyRalls
Community Member
21 days ago

Vector graphics resize when slides are copied and pasted.

Our course workflow is for a course developer to do the initial design for their slides, then they hand their slides off to a graphic designer to do the final layout and design.  We planned to hand o...
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    DarbyRalls
    6 days ago

    For anyone interested, we tracked the problem down to Microsoft Teams.  Because files in Teams are downloaded to your computer before they'll open, I assumed that avoided the Storyline network drive issue.  Apparently, Teams causes enough latency to mess up the .svg copy process. Our workaround will be to work from a local copy of project files, then manually copy them to Teams at the end of the day.  It's unfortunate, but at least we came up with a workaround.

    Thanks to Ian at Articulate Support for helping us track that down.

    --Darby

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Ange
Community Member
19 days ago

Hi Darby,

I could be wrong but I don't think it's bug, I think it is just not a feature due to .svg complexity. Pngs are not a problem because they're sized in pixels, whereas .svgs are vector-based, they use mathematical algorithms to display images. btw: Are your courses responsive?

Are you familiar with svg coding? If yes, what I have done in the past to address the re-scale issue when copying a slide or importing one to a new SL file is: I open the svg in a code editor and adjust the viewBox size... and/or the image attributes. I import the svg into Articulate, and I can resize if need be on the slide. When I copy or import the slide into a different project it remains exactly the same size and position as is seen on the original slide. Alternatively, the graphic designer may be able to address this their end before they save as_____svg. I haven't used Adobe Illustrator for a while so I am not up to date on the latest.

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    DarbyRalls
    Community Member
    17 days ago

    Thanks, Ange.  I'll look into svg coding.  I appreciate your reply.

    --Darby

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