Lectora bloating courses with dozens of needless button images
One of the biggest surprises as I moved to later versions of Lectora (18-19) is how Publishing needlessly duplicates button images to the point where hundreds of unnecessary images bloat the images folder. I've prepped a demo with 10 images in the 'images' folder. By simply copy/pasting a question page (that has a Back and Next navigation buttons and a Submit button) to have 12 question pages, then Publishing the course (in this case SCORM), we now have a published 'images' folder with 108 images in it — the same images... even if the source images were scaled, there would be no need for duplicates.
The most shocking thing is that it generated images for these buttons in the first place. NONE are actually needed. There is nothing about the Lectora button generator (which these buttons were created with) that necessitates a graphic, and ironically this is knowable by Trivantis/eLearningBrothers as this is https://community.trivantis.com/forums/topic/lectora-18-creating-extra-images-for-each-styled-image/), but now the issue seems everywhere, like eventually they'll just want a Publish to spit out a series of bitmap full image pages.
This seems to be the web development equivalence of centering your Word document title by putting your cursor in front of the title and smacking the 'space' key a dozen times until it looks centered.
Making buttons images by styling elements appropriately would also resolve other issues with rendering such as the "Blurry Button issue" as noticed when various web browsers are not set to 100% zoom (see https://community.trivantis.com/forums/topic/text-button-font-is-blurry/).
And if you do decide to update the Lectora button feature, just an FYI, the pharmaceutical-pill style gradient button hasn't been in vogue in about 15 years. ;)
-Darrell
