Visual Copy and text...possible bug?

Jonathan Bradley · 2025-01-30T20:25:09+00:00

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I'll begin with this disclaimer: I haven't used visual copy in a while, as the church I am now pastoring does not have screens or anything, so I really haven't had a need. With that being said, I went to use it today on a verse, and it happened to have, in the different options, one of the fancy nice ones with the graphics on it, like the ones you can see on the Dashboard screen on the desktop app.

I remember these, as I have really liked them, and had used them previously in visual copy, however, today, it kept the text of the verse I was doing visual copy on…on the screen, over the entirety of the graphic. I know it's easy to make that go away, but I don't remember that being like that before.

I hope this makes sense.

This is what I mean:

Is there something that I'm missing or doing wrong? I know how to make the slide text disappear, I just don't remember it ever doing that previously.

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Joe McCune (Faithlife)

@Jonathan Bradley I am sorry, I misunderstood your original post.

I have now opened a ticket for this issue. I agree that it should be possible to easily use Verse of the Day images "as is" in Visual Copy.

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Dave Hooton

That particular graphic does have the text over its entirety - not just in the text box, and I could not reproduce that with other references. So it is specific to Jn 3:16. Is that your concern, because other graphics only had text in the text box?

Jonathan Bradley

What I mean is on the graphics that have text in the graphic part, that's fine, it's supposed to be there, but in the past, it hasn't shown the text box on those graphics. Albeit it's been a few years since I've used visual copy.

Here it is with Hebrews 9:24

Before, without having to delete what's in the text box, it would look like this:

There has to be characters in the text box on the left otherwise it puts defaults words in. I put in a couple spaces.

Here are the saved products:

and

Any verse that has a cool graphic that Logos has premade…like this one for Hebrews 9:24 and the one for John 3:16, I can reproduce the problem on.

Jason Stone (Logos)

Hello! Can anybody confirm if this is an ongoing bug that needs to be reviewed? Thank you!

Jonathan Bradley

It's still doing this for me. Windows 11. Logos Max 40.2.4

Joe McCune (Faithlife)

I can confirm that this is not a bug.

Verse of the Day images already include the text as an intregral part of the image. They are not easily editable.

Jonathan Bradley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1362622#Comment_1362622

But why did it start to include the overlapping text on those? It used to not be that way, but I do not know when the change happened.

Andrew Batishko

@Jonathan Bradley how are you getting to that image in the Media tool? Are you clicking on the image in the dashboard, or using some other means?

Jonathan Bradley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1362628#Comment_1362628

When you select a verse in the Bible, right click on it, and then choose "Visual Copy". When you are in visual copy, click on

Which brings up this:

Not all verses have a cool, set graphic like John 3:16, but most well-known verses do. Sometimes, you'll have to scroll down a couple to find it.

Jonathan Bradley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1355965#Comment_1355965

@Dave Hooton, any verse that has a pre-made image like that, it will put the text over it for me. If you see earlier in this thread, it does it on Hebrews 9:24.

Joe McCune (Faithlife)

@Jonathan Bradley I am sorry, I misunderstood your original post.

I have now opened a ticket for this issue. I agree that it should be possible to easily use Verse of the Day images "as is" in Visual Copy.