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Vectors (EMF, WMF) rasterized when imported
I'm new to Storyline so may have missed something key.
I'm creating shapes in Illustrator, exporting them as WMF, then inserting them as a picture to Storyline. The results are rasterized. It's ev...
Unfortunately I don't believe Storyline currently supports importing vector images. It's bizarre given how the shapes created within Storyline 360 are .svgs.
Saying that, someone did post a neat trick on these forums a while back on how you can import custom shapes from Illustrator into Storyline using your clipboard. I can't find the post now, so I'll try my best to explain it:
- Open Illustrator
- Copy your graphic/object to your clipboard
- Open one of your slides in Storyline, then paste from your clipboard
(The pasted image might look pixelated and ugly at this point) - Right click the pasted picture > Ungroup
(Even though it may look like a normal picture in Storyline, it actually allows you to do this for some reason) - Storyline will ungroup the components of the image into freeform shapes and empty images. Simply delete the objects you don't need, and keep the freeform shape/s that you want.
It's not a perfect solution because it doesn't seem to handle complex graphics very well. But I think it's the best solution until we get official support for vector graphics.
