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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...
Hi Mark. No worries. Obviously the real issue here is that while Articulate state that EMF/WMF file importation is supported it very clearly isn't. Crystal basically makes that point in her post above.
My point (coming from a print/publishing background), and this holds true for innumerable programmes out there, not necessarily just Storyline, is that vector graphics that incorporate things such as drop shadows or gradients often encounter rendering issues when imported into assorted programmes - admittedly not as much nowadays, but still frequently enough. Believe it or not, I don't think I ever got a custom WMF file to render correctly into any Word document I had the misfortune to design/build/edit.
So, obviously the question in this case is how to try and make the WMF/EMF file format work as much as possible within Storyline, and the workarounds are kind of outlined above. It's not perfect, flawless or effortless, but it does work if one follows the basic steps.
Those steps do produce a crisp scalable graphic that Storyline recognises as a distinct shape (not just a rasterised rectangle).
The file is not rasterised. It is an actual shape.
