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 even worse with EMF. Suggestions gratefully received!

This is a feature I would love as well. Articulate has been very slow to add new features to Storyline 360. For how expensive it is, the rate of improvement has not been good in my opinion. I have been using it since version 1 and before (presenter etc.) and I am not impressed with what they have offered in terms of upgrades, and new features over the last few years since release. If you look at the game development industry, there are more and more open-source software packages that push the larger companies to improve. Though I like the product and the community, I am afraid they are becoming more and more like Adobe with large fees and very little innovation year over year. My warning would be that all it takes is one good open-source package that competes with Articulate and there could be a mass exodus of developers. I apologize if this sounds negative but I am getting frustrated with the lack of improvement and new features given that I am a sole proprietor and pay for my own software.

Hi Ed. Just chucking my tuppence in, for what it is worth, but the key to getting crisp WMF files imported into Storyline is to blow them up HUGE in whatever vector programme you create the files in, first, before exporting. I generally create my files at 100% and before exporting, blow up to 500% - this results in super crisp images at no extra file size, really flat graphic (no gradients).

Hello everyone, I wanted to pop in to let you know that there was an enhancement included in the latest update to Storyline 360 that you may be interested in: Enhanced: SVG images on PowerPoint slides import into Storyline 360 as native shapes. You can customize their fill colors, line styles, and shape effects. Details here. Just launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for Storyline 360. Details here.Please let us know if you have any questions, either here or by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.

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.

I just wanted to jump into this discussion to share that we just released Storyline 360 (Build 3.57.26407.0) today, which includes the option to import scalable vector graphics (SVGs) to Storyline 360 so images stay sharp when learners zoom in and out. Thank you to everyone who continued sharing how important this feature was in Storyline 360. Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app! If you run into any issues, don't hesitate to reach out in this discussion or in a support case.

Vectors (EMF, WMF) rasterized when imported

LaurenDuvall
Staff
6 years ago
Hi Diarmaid!

Thank you for providing more information! I can see how the workaround could become time consuming.

I want our Support Engineers to dig deeper into this file, so I've submitted a case on your behalf. (01973906) Please keep an eye out for an email from them.
DiarmaidCollins
Community Member
6 years ago
The SVG methodology mentioned above (SVG into Powerpoint, then Powerpoint import into Storyline) is working for me now. It's clunky but does the job.

Maybe it is time to fully embrace SVG and let go of the (sporadically working) WMF support? :)
BrunoAmaral
Community Member
6 years ago
Hello everyone.

We're having the same issue as described by Diarmaid. When we insert .wmf files, SL recognises that there's a picture there but nothing appears.

So now we are replacing the wmf images for emf images,... but we're having the same issue as Ed, who created this thread. The images look awful. We're going through the images (again) and blowing them up in size, it's the only way it's working.

I updated the software today, just to be sure we had everything working correctly.
Do you have any news on what could be causing this and how to solve this instead of having to rescale every image or without having to import the images to ppt and then copy them to SL?

Thank you in advance.
DiarmaidCollins
Community Member
4 years ago
Well. That is good news. Cannot wait to try this out.
EdwardSmith
Community Member
4 years ago
I inherited a project with a slide that contained EMF images. After publishing the project in 360 review, an extra slide was added after the slide that contained the EMF, furthermore the extra slide didn’t appear in Story View. After hours of troubleshooting, I converted the EMF images to png and republished the project and magically the extra slide disappeared.
- BeccaLevan
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Thanks for sharing this with the community, Edward! I'm sorry you spent so much time on this. If you run into anything moving forward, we're just a click away and happy to help!
  
  P.S. welcome to E-Learning Heroes 😊
RayBoehmer
Community Member
4 years ago
Storyline 360 does now accept imported SVGs; but most of the formatting tools available for images or EMFs are not available for the SVGs. So barely implemented at all.
Now, there are a LOT of SVG export options in Illustrator, so perhaps there is a way to get more compatible SVGs.
Since PPT can import SVGs and then they become usable when the PPT is imported into Storyline, can anyone figure out what the difference is between a SVG exported out of illustrator and an SVG in a PPT slide?
- DiarmaidCollins
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Unfortunately it seems that the old Import SVG from PowerPoint doesn’t work as it did anymore. It just imports the solid SVG, uneditable. Even that as a fallback method isn’t available now which is a shame because nothing made me happier than importing sags into storyline that could then be edited as shapes. Nothing.
  
  Even if Articulate could “break” the PowerPoint import option to what it was would be good.