Font sizes drop in Storyline randomly

I edited your quote above to say what I think you meant.

Nope.  All these text boxes have plenty of room.  I've reset the entire course to 15 point.  

I am going to try upping the value to 16 point only because I suspect the bug may have something to do with supporting a value that appears in the font size drop-down box.  14, and 16 are there, 15 isn't.  All the page headers which were implemented as 16 point text boxes (like other text on-screen)  remained at 16 point.

I regularly use 15, and 13.5 (don't ask why). 

fonts and text adding are an area that can be improved. I understand it is due to the text editor that is being used. 

Thanks for understanding the rumblings of a crazy man

Are you using the default Articulate font?  Perhaps this bug is because I do not?

I never use Articulate font or Tahoma (the font any pasted text seems to come in at), never noticed font sizes changing. I can believe it happens though. 

hi sam,

Finally a partner in crime .

same problem over here almost.font size changes, sometimes bigger and smaller. i cannot get a grip when and how and why. so not to reproduce. bummer. but a colleegue of my dizcover the following. donot save in between when you want to save do it via close application and save. strange but for now it works here fine. we have 5 accounts similar laptops and only 2 has this problem.

on the 2 latops we also notice that tbe text size differs in the object mode and edit mode. strange? published text size is the object mode. do you recognize this also?

I began to save frequently after a crash lost my work.  I'll try not doing that any longer.

I have read elsewhere (I think) that others document the text size change during editing.  It's a nuance, but not a problem.

There are other oddities that I have yet to confirm are not operator error.  Here's one I will confess early:  Occasionally, I open my .story file, and there are four shapes (ovals) with text.  The third one changes position, sliding left about an inch on-screen.  I've aligned the objects right several times and saved.  Again, no idea what is causing that issue.

Yesterday, all the text on one slide of my course was mysteriously set to 1 point.  I've had to resort to an easy fix.  All fonts are 16 point in my course now to make recovery from this error easier.

My font sizes just dropped from 16 point to 15 point in all course slides today.

No idea why.

Are you using the spellcheck I used last week and some fonts mysteriously dropped to 7.5

I did use the automatic spell check today.  One word was misspelled, underlined in red by Storyline.  Right-click, selected the right word.

I'll be careful to test next time.

I just noticed... I have three scenes.  Only one scene, the one I work on the most, dropped in font size.

I've already gone through all slides and set everything back to 16 point.  Let's see how it goes in the weeks ahead.

I did it using the function key to do a course wide spellcheck

I am with you all!

I've been having the text box magic changing font issue since I began using Storyline 8 months ago.

Have any of you had the problem when the text box just stops wrapping text and stretches the text box out past the size of the slide?

That is another impossible issue.

Also I have noticed that whilst typing in a text box or selecting text etc, the font appears a different size than it ultimately ends up when you click out of the box.

Does anyone know if there is a request for a fix for this issue yet?

I haven't had the stretching box issue myself.  

I can deal with the different font size while editing. It is annoying, but doesn't cost me much time.

Hi All,

Text Stretching beyond Caption boxes

I have seen a text stretching issue with caption shapes (not other shapes). Not beyond the edge of the slide, but text stretching slightly beyond the edge of the box. This is when I've changed the caption box's text box to resize the shape to fit the text.

I've found caption shapes very difficult to work with in terms of shape boundaries and margins for internal text. I admit to being frustrated by it and often resorting to inserting text boxes into caption boxes to avoid this, but I feel like it's creating extra work. Does anyone have any secrets they can share about this?

Text in box ultimately appearing OK when you click outside the box

David, this is something that comes up a lot. If you set your zoom level to 100% the text will display correctly even when you're editing.

I've not experienced the mysterious font desizing problem but plan to do a lot of spell checking to see what happens!

I've noticed the effect over the last month or two myself...

It appears that the text box maintains one font size, but that the text has a separate but smaller font size;  like 16 and 14, or 15 and 13...

When you select the text box, you see one size;  click into it and you see the smaller.  

Not crowding the text in small boxes, and auto-resize is set to off.

This is a help. First I've heard of it.

Font size drops when I click in a text box.

In this Screenr you see that when I select a text box the font size = 11, When I edit the text box the font size = 9.

Zoom = 100%

Shut down all spelling check options

Futhermore, I set all the font sizes of this text to 11. Sometimes out of the blue but too often it changes to 13,5

Anyone any ideas?

This is the same issue I reported 2 months past.

I found the solution was:

1. Don't overcrowd your text box.

2.After sizing the text, click the text box and set the font family, and size again.

This worked for me.

Hi Peter,

Not sure what's going on. This thread discusses text shift and font size changes with non-Articulate fonts and mentions the 100% "solution", which has always worked for me.

And here are a couple other threads

http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/14120/82473.aspx#82473

http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/16476/94182.aspx#94182

@Dennis: Thanks. Bummer that I didn''t read your post tow months ago :-(

I will give it a try

Thanks for clearing up that mystery for me! I had no idea why it was happening. This really helps.

With the caption text boxes, I often change the margins to leave only 5 pts left and right rather than the 10 pts set by default. That lets me add one or two more letters before it wraps down.

Good luck!

I'd like to jump in real quick to say I am using the 100% "fix" when editing text boxes so that I can see the true layout of the slide when editing, and this works but is not, IMHO, a sustainable solution.

I call this a "fix" as Articulate Storyline is the only program I use where this zoom problem occurs.  Changing the zoom to 100% so that I can select the text I want on the first try and see the true size and layout of the text when editing is not a sustainable solution.  I hope to see this actually fixed in a future patch so that we can zoom a slide out to fit our screen and be able to work in text boxes in a true WYSIWYG environment.