documentation/manual/source/themes.rst

Themes

The Theme Manager is where you can set backgrounds, fonts, and colors to the style you desire. From the theme manager you can create a new theme, Edit a theme, Delete a theme, Import a theme, and Export a theme.

Creating New Themes

Create a new theme:

This will bring up the Theme Wizard

Click Next. You have 3 choices in the drop down menu for Background type: Solid Color, Gradient, or Image.

Solid color:

Select solid color and click on the black button next to Color. You have the option of choosing among the colors you see or entering your own.

Gradient:

Choose the two colors, Starting and Ending that you want to fade together and the Gradient drop down will let you determine the directions of the fade.

Image:

You have the ability to use an image for your background. OpenLP accepts a variety of image types.

Background color:

Choose the color that will appear on the borders if your image is smaller than your projector display setting.

Image:

Click to find and select your image.

Note: When possible, try to use the same size image as your projector is displaying unless you want a background color for a border.

When finished with your selection for background, click the Next button.

Main Area Font Details

This is the area where you will select and define your font characteristics for the Display text.

Font:

Choose the font you would like to use from the drop down.

Color:

Choose the color of your font.

Size:

The size of your font determines how many lines are shown per slide. As you change the font size, the lines per slide will change.

Line Spacing:

This setting determines how much space you want between lines. This setting will also change the lines per slide.

Outline:

If you desire an outline around your font, select the Outline box, choose your color and size of the outline.

Shadow:

If you desire a shadow around your font, select the Shadow box and choose your color and size of the shadow.

Bold Display:

Select the box for Bold font

Italic Display:

Select the box for Italic font

When you are finished selecting your font details click the Next button.

Footer Area Font Details

This page determines the Font, Font Color, and size of the font for the footer. The footer is where the Title of the song, Author or Authors, Copyright and CCLI License are displayed.

When you are finished setting your footer font details, click Next.

Text Formatting Details

This page determines the alignment of the text on your slide and the transition from one slide to the next.

Horizontal Align:

This moves the text to the Left, Right or Center of the screen.

Vertical Align:

This moves the text to the Top, Middle or bottom of the screen.

Transitions:

When this box is selected, switching slides will fade out from one and fade in to the next. When the box is not selected, slide changing will be instant.

When you are finished setting your Text Formatting Details, click Next.

Output Area Locations

This page gives you the ability to position your Main area or Footer area to a specific area of the screen using the x and y positions. ie: if you do not want your footer on the bottom left, you can make the adjustment here. You can re-size the Width and the Height of the Main Area and the Footer Area. ie: If you have a temporary or permanent obstacle in one part of the viewing area, you can re-size the Main or Footer area and use x and y positions to display in a different position on the screen.

You can also change the Width and the Height of the Main Area and the Footer Area.

When you are finished setting your Output Area Locations, click Next.

Save and Preview

Theme Name:

Enter your theme name here.

Preview:

The Preview shows the choices you made when setting up the previous pages plus, shows all the edit effects possible so you can see what the impact is on all possible font colors and characteristics.

When you are satisfied with your selections, click Finish. If you want to make a change, use the Back button.

Editing Themes

Now that you created your theme and you display it on the projector and there is something you don't like, you can easily Edit your theme either by clicking the Theme Edit Button or by right-clicking your theme and selecting the appropriate action.

Deleting Themes

Delete a theme:

Delete a selected theme or you can right-click your theme and select Delete.

Note: Deleting the currently selected global theme or the default theme is not possible.

Exporting Themes

If you would like to transfer a theme from one computer to another, click on the theme you want to export, click and choose the folder you want to save your theme in and click OK.

Importing Themes

To import a theme that has been previously exported, click the import button and select the folder and the theme file, and click OK. Your imported theme will be entered in the Theme Manager. Import Theme will also handle version 1 Exports. You will need to check your imported theme since many of the values will have been defaulted.

Rename Theme

If you created a theme and want to change the name of it, right-click your theme and click Rename theme and enter the new name.

Copy Theme

Now that you created a theme with all the attributes you like, you can right-click the theme, click on Copy theme, choose your new name and click OK. You now have a duplicate of your first theme that you can edit the way you want.

Set as Global default

If you right-click your theme, you have the option to set the theme as Global default. This option is covered in greater detail under configure.