"Nice, I'll remember that one. Thanks Matthew. Matt"

"Hi Matthew, Oh it's a sub-optimal fix all right, no argument there! Only one available to me in the time I had unfortunately. Future edi..."

"Hi Laurie, Nothing so far I'm afraid, still under investigation. In the end I had to "optimise" the course myself, switching blocks of t..."

"Hi Ashley, before embarking on the latest round of testing I uninstalled and reinstalled with the May 8th SL3 update so I'm on update 4: ..."

"Hi Ashley, A further tidbit as requested! It's been happening for a while, but I hadn't made the (possible) connection to the current i..."

"Just a thought in case it helps: a large chunk of the course I'm currently working on was originally part of another course created in St..."

"A pleasure Ashley - I have my courses pared down to a functional size now but if your team can figure this out and issue a fix I'm sure t..."

"Hi, similar problem though happening from a different angle, I guess. I've been focused on minimising the size of a specific output file..."

"...a lone cricket chirps, and tumbleweeds roll across the thread..."

"Cheers Ashley, and cheers Matthew - I get what you say about stepping back from the keyboard. I am burning a lot of time on this problem ..."

"Well this is annoying - I think I've found where all the fiddles need to be made but no idea how to implement them. There's a bit in app..."

""It's one faster, isn't it?"  "

"Ditto, I love a good technical mystery. Though I'd rather it wasn't happening in the context of my course not working. :) I'm now workin..."

"That's really helpful Matthew, thanks for doing all that testing. Some really interesting results there! A bit of playing myself and it ..."

"Hi Matthew. I don't suppose you could help me out with a quick test could you? Create a brand new project, slap 20 or so lines of text on..."

"That's the file that generates a 54KB paths.js for me (published for LMS, HTML5 only, SCORM 1.2) so would be interested to see what you g..."

"Here you go."

"Me too! Just out of interest/desperation I took a relatively text heavy slide with a transcript layer. Published in its original build i..."

"No change after reinstalling the software and republishing. Submitted a support case so we'll see if they can help."

"Might be a combo of things I guess - lots and lots of text, spread amongst lots of layers, increases the relative increase due to each li..."

"Update from the pit of despair: perhaps it's not layers, as such (though no doubt it contributes a bit).  I can change the paths.js file..."

"Right, testing complete. I was right it wasn't a train at the end of the tunnel: it was a massive line of trucks and I've just been squis..."

"Hi Matthew, Thanks for your reply - you sent me off down a little rabbit hole of testing and I'm not sure it's actually the animation el..."

"Hi Ashley, Unfortunately I have no details of the browser set-ups used - I tend to get reports passed to me shorn of user contact detail..."

"Hi Ashley, Interesting read, looks like I was in the right area with it being about how empty text variables are handled. In terms of ef..."