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NicholeSande365
Community Member
2 days ago

SCORM File is MASSIVE

Hi,

I have a SCORM file for a course that is 250,000KB.

More details:
1. The text is Chinese.
2. I have this EXACT same course in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese versions, all of which generated a SCORM files about 15-16,000 KB.
3. I tried saving the file under a new file name to get rid of cached info. 
4. I tried importing all slides to a new Storyline, which reduced the SCORM from 259,473 KB to 257,400.  Not helpful.
5.  There are no videos.
6.  There are very few images, and they are the same images present in the other language files for which no compression was necessary.
7.  There are small SFX for button clicks, again which are present in the other languages for which no compression was necessary.
8.  There are no unused assets laying around.
9.  The ONLY difference with this massive file is that the text and player controls are in Chinese.

I have no idea where to go from here.  There is no discernable reason it should be this large, and my trainees are complaining about load times and lots of lag.  Please help!

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  • Jürgen_Schoene_'s avatar
    Jürgen_Schoene_
    2 days ago

    in the output.min.css file are all used fonts (with all uses chars) included

    a typical chinese/japanese/korean font is 10 ... 20 MByte (>> 20000 different chars for text)

    a typical english, french, italien, german font is 0.1 ... 0.5 MByte (~ 100-200 different chars)

     

  • NicholeSande365's avatar
    NicholeSande365
    Community Member
    2 days ago

    Also,
    10.  I found that it's the html5>data>css>output.min file that is 245,428 KB.  In the other languages, it is at about 5,000 KB.  It says it has bout 300,000,000 characters compared to the same file in the English version that says 5,000,000+.  What!?
    11.  I had no issues editing with the storyline file. 

    Where is this data coming from?  Have there been issues in the past when trying to use Chinese fonts? 

    • Jürgen_Schoene_'s avatar
      Jürgen_Schoene_
      Community Member
      2 days ago

      in the output.min.css file are all used fonts (with all uses chars) included

      a typical chinese/japanese/korean font is 10 ... 20 MByte (>> 20000 different chars for text)

      a typical english, french, italien, german font is 0.1 ... 0.5 MByte (~ 100-200 different chars)

       

      • NicholeSande365's avatar
        NicholeSande365
        Community Member
        3 hours ago

        Jürgen,

        Yes, this indeed was the problem in two ways. 
        1. The font "Noto Sans CJK SC" seems to be extra bloated in the css file.
        2. Noto Sans is a Google font, and users in China aren't able to connect to the Google Font API due to The Great Firewall. 

        My solution has been to
        1. Replace all fonts with Source Han Sans CN, which is smaller and, being the Adobe version of the font, shouldn't be blocked by the Chinese government.
        2. Strip all font formatting beyond size.

        These two things reduced the file size to 86,000KB.  I think that's as small as I can possibly get it.

        Woof.  

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