I just d/led the new build. Now I can't change the font color in the customize window. I go through the usual things to do this, and nothing happens. This is a major problem, as all the text is now black for this new service I am making. Help!
Are you running a Mac or Pc?
One thing I'd be sure to check is if you were actually selecting the title field.
Try selecting the title field on the left. The Hymn Number field (red, above) can sometimes cover the center portion of the title field (blue).
Thanks,
Thanks Hunter
A Mac.
Yes, I checked very carefully to select the correct box. I did a select all of the actual text in the little box on the left, and then tried the color changes, but nothing. A related thing is that I cut and paste text into a content box, in the first page, where it tells you to put the text. I'm pasting black text, of course, and it used to show up white on the black field automatically. Now it doesn't, so I can't see it unles it is highlighted. If I go to the second page, I can see it in the slide itself, but not in the little box on the left. It's very weird.
I also have had a problem with altering the size of some new text in a slide. It just won't change, no matter how big I make its text box. I've tried it as a custom title, and other things, and it just won't change. Next I'm giong to put it in a song slide instead, because at least the text is changeable.
Why is it so hard to format text in the content slides? Why aren't the optoins for formating text in song slides available in the content slides? Most of the time we use song slides to add text, including for the entire pastor's message. It's still very awkward to arrange text, but not as hard in the content slides. Is it possible to word wrap automatically in any of these cases?
I like the backgrounds and all, but this layout and design of text is the hardest I've ever done, and I go back to PageMaker 3 or so. In fact, I go back to DOS programs that weren't WYSIWYG. This isn't WYSIWYG, come to that.
Nan
Which version of OS-X are you running? Snow Leopard? Lion?
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Yes, I checked very carefully to select the correct box. I did a select all of the actual text in the little box on the left, and then tried the color changes, but nothing.
Just so that I am clear, you are doing the following:
Also, I would be sure that you have set the Title to display on your slides. At the bottom of the Lyrics tab you'll see a checkbox labeled "Show title on title slide":
A related thing is that I cut and paste text into a content box, in the first page, where it tells you to put the text. I'm pasting black text, of course, and it used to show up white on the black field automatically. Now it doesn't, so I can't see it unles it is highlighted. If I go to the second page, I can see it in the slide itself, but not in the little box on the left. It's very weird. I also have had a problem with altering the size of some new text in a slide. It just won't change, no matter how big I make its text box. I've tried it as a custom title, and other things, and it just won't change. Next I'm giong to put it in a song slide instead, because at least the text is changeable.
Just so that I am clear, you first create a content item, select a background and then copy text from another application into the Content field. Are you entering your text from within the Customize window?
From what program are you copying your text (Pages, MS Word or something else)? Does this change if you use a different background?
Word Wrap is exactly the issue. Adding text effects such as drop shadows or gradients to wrapping text is very complex, and costly to local resources as Content and bible items are intended for large text blocks per slide.
One of our goals with Song Service items is to make sure that we never break your formatting of the lyrics. In order to accomplish this we never add line or slide breaks. Instead, we re-size the text to fit.
We are working on ways to make it much more clear and intuitive what Proclaim is doing with text, which should make your experience much more natural and painless. We appreciate you patience with us in the meantime.
I dunno which OS we're using. It's a brand new Mac. Well, a few months old.
No, I'm not importing song lyrics. That part works just fine. I'm choosing to add a Song slide, and then pasting text from the email that contains all the slides for the sermon. I copy and paste from Gmail. I've done this from the beginning. The reason I choose a Song slide instead of Content slide is because the Content slides don't have the same options to change effects of the text as there are for Song slides in the Customize part. (I mean I make separate slides for each piece of the sermon, I don't paste the whole works into one Song slide.)
But this particular time, with this build, when I pasted text in to a Song slide in the lyric box, it stayed black. When I went to Customize, I selected the text, picked a font color, etc., and nothing happened at all. The text stayed black. It was unchangeable. I could see it in the Customize text box, and a sentence that was already there would change colors, but the new text I pasted in didn't change at all. It stayed unreadable in the lyric box. It was very strange. That has never happened before.
Re Titles, no I don't show the title on the Title slide, because I don't use title slides for songs when On Air. I only check the box for showing the CCLI# and copyright info on the first slide.
Re word wrap, I see what you mean. But the problem with automatically resizing the text within the box means I have to put in hard returns to shorten a passage so that the text will become big enough to read. Then if I put in a second hard return, I'll get a second slide with the next portion of the text. (Say it was a long quote or something.)
We've tried using Content slides for the sermon slides, but it is so awkward, and we have no choices for any effects on the words that we generally give up and go back to Song slides, even tho breaking the text so it can be seen is also awkward. Also, the text boxes in Content slides seem much less flexible in formatting.
I"m sorry I am not more specific right now, but I'm at home and that was Thursday night. I think I'm doing slides again this week, and so I'll pay more attention to what is and isn't working and makes notes and then send you some specific examples. That will be on Thursday, probably. Or Friday. We rehearse Thursday night, so I do the songs first and the sermon sometime before Sunday.
(BTW, you do know what WYSIWYG means, don't you? You didn't mention that.)
Is there any way you can look at my presentation for yourself and see what I've done? That would really help.
Anyway, thanks for the help, and I hope some of this makes sense.
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