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- I use Storyline on MBP with Parallels and it's so much faster in Parallels than it ever was on my PC. Love it.
- Rick - not sure what you're asking, as Storyline doesn't "sync" with any Adobe programs. I assume you're referring to round-tripping or some other type of shared service/feature? Parallels works wonderfully when it comes to shared file access. For example, files on your OS X desktop will also be available automatically on your Windows desktop. And Windows Explorer within the guest OS will have full access to your OS X directories. It works quite well.
- Thanks! That answer it. Much appreciated.
Rick Pechous Instructional Designer, Sales
- Hello! How well does Storyline 2 on Mac via Parellels sync with other Adobe programs? Will I be switching back and forth between OS's often, or need Adobe products to be downloaded to the Windows OS? Thanks in advance!
- Hi Rick -
Storyline runs exceptionally well via Parallels along with Photoshop and Illustrator. I have worked exclusively on my Mid 2014 MBP for nearly 2 years now.
Photoshop (Mac) and Storyline (Parallels) are always open on my machine and I have no issues with system performance. I even record my Storyline screencasts on my MBP without any issues. It's really amazing.
- Another issue with running under a Windows virtual machine: you need a copy of MS-Word on the VM with your copy of Storyline; it can't publish out to this format without MS-Word for Windows installed. For those of us who work primarily in OS X, and develop, review, and edit Storyline scripts in Word format, this requires redundant installations of Word on Mac and the Windows virtual machine.
- I gave up waiting for a mac version. I don't want to install windows on my computer so I bought captivate instead. I am giving an elearning presentation to my institution this week to a big group, and I am going to recommend our intitution and individuals also buy captivate as we have a high percentage of users of mac computers where I work.
- Hi Esther! I know how much I’d enjoy having a native Mac version of Storyline.
Having said that, I’ve worked almost exclusively in Storyline on a Mac for two years and rarely find a need to boot up my PC. With the exception of publishing, I find my Mac-based Storyline runs faster than it does on my newer model PC.
I would argue that the initial pain of installing a virtual OS and Windows is far better than the daily workflow pains of working in anything other than Storyline.- I use Parallels on my Mac and SL2 is so much faster on the Mac than my PC
- Prior to SL1 release the talk from Articulate was that a Mac version was coming. It obviously didn't happen and, as I previously posted, given the obvious heavy leveraging of the Windows/PPT APIs that SL uses, there's no way a Mac version would have happened. Given the large number of Mac users, hopefully in their next product Articulate will consider going a more cross-platform capable approach.
- When I was in Articulate school for Storyline, the instructor said that Storyline was actually developed on the Mac. Can't confirm but I'm hoping a Mac version gets released soon.
- I've given up hope on a Mac version. They seem pretty content with the current setup but hoping forward thinking would lead Articulate to an at-parity iPad app with an Adobe-like subscription model.
- This sounds really helpful. If I'm already running Storyline on my Windows desktop, would I need an additional Storyline license to use it on my Mac as well? Or would the one license cover both uses since it's for the same user?
- Bill, Better check with Articulate. My understanding is that your license is only for one machine at a time. You can transfer the license to another machine but not run the same program on two machines simultaneously.
- Here is the answer from the articulate website
https://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/number-of-activations-allowed-378
Cheers,
Ivan
- It should cover both, if I'm correct you can instance of Storyline on 2 of your devices but you cannot install on 2 devices that owned by 2 different people.
Sent from my iPhone- Just what I needed to know. Thanks Ivan!
- Hi Sylvia,
Which version of windows do you use? I just tried to run SL2 on a PC with Windows 10 and can't correct the tiny fonts problem. So I'm thinking of using my mac air (8 GB ram). Would I do better with an earlier version of Windows (7 or 8)?- John on the Mac you have to adjust the display so that it is not on Retina and you have to change the resolution down a bit. Your DPI needs to be 96 or smaller on Mac and/or PC
Here is the Storyline link for info on this and how to change the DPI: https://www.articulate.com/support/storyline-2/articulate-storyline-dpi-support-sl2
- Hi Ivan :), the market is the "requested features" that Articulate has for the community to request. According to what they write, they work on features based on the most requested via their "request a feature" link. I'm guessing we don't have it yet for at least two reasons, there aren't enough of us requesting it and/or it takes more of their tech resources to accomplish the task than they have to allocate to that project, at least for now for now. I'm looking forward greatly to having it, but I do like that it works way faster in parallels than any program I'm running on the Mac side, so not complaining too loudly yet. It is frustrating at times for sure. I'm just thankful that I don't have to carry around two computers to be able to have it.
- Storyline will never run on a Mac natively as it clearly leverages the Windows/PPT APIs heavily. Unless they rewrit from the ground up (ain't gonna happen), then I wouldn't get your hopes up waiting.
