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 Project Text setting in Storyline 360

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.

Display accessible text by default setting in Storyline 360
Note that text autofit improvements have evolved over time based on your feedback. They were disabled by default for new and existing projects as of July 2021. And as of August 2021, we added the ability to choose how Storyline 360 handles text that doesn’t fit its bounding box—let it overflow or add a scroll bar. Learn more.