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Thousands of images compressing upon publishing an 18-slide project
Hello, I have an 18-slide Storyline 3 project that, when publishing, takes forever because it says "compressing image (number) of 2693 images. I don't understand how an 18-slide deck can possibly ha...
BTW, I noticed I had a lot of extra master slides, so I deleted them and still have 2706 images compressing upon publication.
Hi Susan! Thanks for sharing your .story file. I published it for web to see what the output folder contained for images, and I found lots of these files:
Those are the images of the buttons you used on the majority of your slides in the first scene. Those buttons are stops on the timeline.
And each of those buttons has built in states that are included:
What's happening is that each one of those states has to be saved as an image in the output so Storyline knows what to display. So multiply 5 by every time you have one of those red dots on a slide and....you get the idea! ☺️
I don't believe this folder of image files will impact playback of your course. It took some time to publish and to upload to my testing environment here, but playback appears to be normal.
I hope that helps!
