Sermon Builder Bugs and Requests

Macbook Pro 16” 2021
MacOS Monterey 12.2
Apple M1 Pro Chip
16 GB RAM
Logos 9.11.0.0022

I have a large library but just recently purchased the Preachers Suite Premium to get some of the advanced tools in the Sermon Builder that are also found in Logos 9 base packages, such as the ability to upload my own graphics as slides and hopefully to improve the slide’s overall performance. I have these suggestions to get the Sermon Builder when using slides to work better for pastors that utilize the feature. I would like to use the Sermon Builder feature so I can do my word processing of sermon notes inside of Logos without switching screens, but due to the limitations, it’s a headache trying to use it. Here are the issues I’m having and a few suggestions to improve it.

When adding text to the slides, it lags really bad when doing something simple such as typing or moving the text box. This is something I would think should work extremely smooth like using text in every other app does. If it’s because it’s connecting to the internet to use this feature, I would recommend the option to be able to download image sources and prevent this lag. My internet speed averages around 30 MBPS, so even then I would think it shouldn’t lag.

When using my own graphic as a background slide, it only allows body text to be layered on top. No header or sub-header text is permitted. Could we get this changed to allow more flexibility with text? 

Sometimes when editing a slide the Update Sermon in the top left disappears and then I’m not sure how to update the sermon. I’m not sure yet what’s triggering this as it doesn’t happen every time.

When I create a second slide via typing in more text in my sermon notes, the new slide comes out black instead of repeating the image I have. This may be by design, however, when I tell the first slide I created to apply styles to all other slides, it doesn’t work. It actually does the opposite and makes all my slides go black instead of copying my designed one. When using Logos pre-made slide backgrounds, it appears to work just fine, just not with my customized ones.

When I set the slide size to be 1920 x 1080, I expect each following slide to also be of that size. Instead, every new slide I create ends up defaulting back to 1024 x 576. I spoke with Logos customer service and she tried it on a PC and it did the same thing. So it appears to be a bug in both systems. It would also be nice to be able to set in up in settings to always default to a particular size desired.

It would also be nice if a future version of Logos gave the option for slides to be created in 4K.

It would be nice to be able to add an additional graphic over top of a preexisting or new slide that I created. I understand that Logos perhaps doesn’t want to build it’s complete own slide presentation, but with utilizing slides in the Sermon Builder, it is pretty needful so that the headlines and other text that I want to be a slide, quickly formats it to do so, instead of having to do a Keynote or Powerpoint slide presentation separately after the matter.

It would be a nice feature if you could set a few different master slides and then apply those to specific slides but not all of them.