Localization News!
Hello, I just wanted to take a moment to share a couple of announcements that I'm super excited about! The big news is that we just launched Articulate Localization, which allows you to translate, validate, and manage your courses from within the Articulate 360 platform. đ Check out this article for more information. Along with that, I'm happy to share that we just launched a new Localization group where you can ask questions, discuss localization best practices, connect with others who work with localization, and more. Just hit the Join Group button to get started! I'm curious, have you started a trial of Articulate Localization yet? Let us know in the comments!Effortless Localization with Articulate 360
Join us on April 22nd at 11 a.m. ET for a one-hour training webinar on Articulate Localization. David Anderson, Director of Customer Training, will walk you through how to: Translate courses into 70+ languages right in Rise and Storyline. Give language validators the power to view and edit course translations themselvesâno subscription needed. Publishing multiple language versions as a single package. Register Now! Canât attend live? Register to receive the recording!Articulate Localization - Shrink Text on Overflow Bug
Hi all, Articulate Localization is a dream come true that my team and I have been waiting for for years. We are however running into an issue/bug in Storyline 360 with 'shrinking text on overflow' Currently we use the settings you see below. The text of each box is 'wrapped' and if there is too much text the size of the text automatically decreases. This functionality is essential, because it allows you to easily manage multiple translations because if there is too much text then the text simply slinks a little bit to still fit in the box. As a result you don't need to make ridiculously large boxes for lengthy languages like Ukrainian and Bulgarian (these versions of the training then simply have text that has smaller font). However, Articulate Storyline 360 breaks this functionality when there are multiple translations. Here is the Ukrainian Translation for example: As you can see, suddenly, scrollbars have appeared. This should not be possible but it still happened, if you Publish or Preview the Project the scrollbars are still visible. Therefore, our trial of Articulation Localization has come to a very short end because we cannot use this for our clients if the text of each text box does not shrink in other languages other than the source language. Is anyone else experiencing this bug and/or can this bug be resolved so we can use this feature as well. Secondly, when using Upgraded Project Text the option to 'Shrink text on Overflow' disappears whilst this feature is 100% necessary for running multiple translations in the same Storyline file. Japanese uses about 50% of the space Bulgarian uses, so making huge text boxes for everything just because there are languages that need a lot of room means there is also a lot of empty space on other languages. In short, it's MUCH better if Storyline simply reduces the font size of these languages so you don't need to leave insane amounts of room. We are excited about Articulate Localization, but it needs to work perfectly in Storyline 360, because we (on average) would like to have twenty languages running in one file. Best regards. Kaj DekkersEffortless Localization with Articulate 360
Join us on April 15th at 11 a.m. ET for a one-hour training webinar on Articulate Localization. David Anderson, Director of Customer Training, will walk you through how to: Translate courses into 70+ languages right in Rise and Storyline. Give language validators the power to view and edit course translations themselvesâno subscription needed. Publishing multiple language versions as a single package. Register Now! Canât attend live? Register to receive the recording!
