Storyline 360: Upgrade Project Text
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Text autofit improvements offer three new autofit options that make it easier to control how text displays when it overflows its bounding box. At the same time, these enhancements take advantage of the latest text-rendering technology to support multiple accessibility features, including accessible text and semantic formatting.
To use the autofit enhancements and make text more accessible, upgrade your project text, as described below.
Upgrade a New Project
New projects use modern text by default. To further upgrade project text to enable text autofit improvements, go to the Design tab on the ribbon, click Fonts, and select Upgrade Project Text. Or, right-click any text element, choose Format Shape, click the Text Box tab, and select Upgrade Project Text. This upgrades all project text at once and saves a backup copy of the project file with the original settings.
Upgrade an Existing Project
You can easily enable text autofit improvements for an existing project. If that project uses classic text, it'll be upgraded to modern text at the same time.
Will Anything Be Different After Upgrading Project Text?
Your existing courses should behave as they did previously. You may notice a few visual improvements and changes to text in addition to the accessibility support.
There are three new autofit property controls. Visit this user guide to learn more. Storyline 360 automatically upgrades text elements that use a legacy autofit setting to a suitable, new autofit setting. For example:
Legacy Setting |
New Setting |
Resize shape to fit text |
Expand width |
Shrink text on overflow |
Fixed size |
Do not autofit |
Fixed size |
Accessible Text
After you experience upgraded project text, you may want to make accessible text the default. To do that, go to the Design tab on the ribbon, click Fonts, and select Display Accessible Text by Default, as shown below. This sets the Player.AccessibleText
variable to True
at the same time.