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MiguelGuerra
Community Member
10 days ago

PDF Reader or View PDF via Scrolling Panel

The ask: Could a PDF reader or an addition to the scrolling panel allowing PDFs be added to Storyline's functionality?

Our team is required to present manual pages in our lessons, necessitating the use of a scrolling panels. To display manuals or textbook pages that are saved as PDFs in Storyline, you must process the conversion of the PDF in a third-party program. After the conversion, you must import the images and align each page individually in the scrolling panel. The pages must be grouped in a certain way for the scrolling panel to populate correctly. I’ve included a Review 360 link with an example of what the end results looks like:

Review 360: PDF Scrolling Panel Example

If a PDF reader was included in Storylines toolset, it would make life for designers much easier. Our team is looking for the following features:

  • Allowing PDFs to be imported into Storyline without the need for conversion to JPEG or PNG
  • Automated scrolling for multiple pages.
    • Say the PDF has multiple pages, the user can either flip through the pages or scroll through them.
  • How would it function?:
    • Additional functionality to scrolling panels
    • OR including a built in PDF reader to Storyline's toolset
  • Additional Functionality:
    • Zoom functions
    • Enable PDF bookmarks

We appreciate any updates or notice on building this functionality, if possible.

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5 Replies

  • KellyMTracy's avatar
    KellyMTracy
    Community Member
    9 days ago

    Yes! Developers, this would be an extremely helpful feature to add. Thank you for your consideration.

  • LaurannePayne-e's avatar
    LaurannePayne-e
    Community Member
    9 days ago

    Yes, please! This would bring the PDF capability of Storyline into the new age! Great insights! 

    Our team works with uploading and maintaining compliance documentation in all our lessons quarterly. Reducing the added steps to incorporate a PDF into a scroll bar so the image can be seen in a larger view has become quite a pain point with the persistent updates to our documents.

  • EricSantos's avatar
    EricSantos
    Staff
    7 days ago

    Thanks for sharing this, MiguelGuerra, and thanks to everyone else for adding your voices.

    Right now, Storyline 360 doesn’t support viewing PDFs directly. We understand how time-consuming that can be, especially for teams working with manuals or frequently updated compliance documents.

    The request for native PDF support, whether through an enhanced scrolling panel or a built-in PDF viewer with features like scrolling, navigation, and zoom, has been shared with our product team. Feedback like this helps inform future improvements.

    Thanks again for taking the time to explain the need so clearly.