Creating KPresenter Templates
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Creating KPresenter Templates

It is very easy to add new templates to KPresenter's library.

If you have made a presentation in a style you would like to use again, you can save it as a template.

This tutorial will show how we can make a new template and save it.

  1. Open KPresenter and create a new document.

    I chose a plain background with a text entry box. right mouse button click on the work area and you get a Slide Background dialog box.


    The KPresenter Slide Background dialog.

    Under Format you will find Page Background which opens the same dialog box.

  2. I want the background to look attractive. In the top Combo box you can choose to use a picture or some clipart for the background.


    Choosing a slide background

    I have left this at the default Color/Gradient option. In the next Combo box down I have chosen Vertical gradient, clicked into the two long boxes below it and chosen two colors.

    You can alter the start positions of the colors in the gradients by clicking in the Unbalanced Check box. This lets you use the pair of X and Y sliders. Sometimes one slider will not do anything at all, it depends on what type of gradient you have chosen.

    Remember to choose contrasting colors first. If you leave both white, you will not see anything. When you have a color scheme that you like, click Apply and OK to close the Dialog box.

  3. The page should now be in the colors you chose. Double click in the text box to add a heading.


    Adding a Heading to the new template

    When you are happy with your template, click File on the Menu Bar and choose Template Manager.

    This Dialog box allows you to select where you want your template to be saved.


    Saving the new template

    I chose to save mine under the Screen presentations menu and called it Tutorial Template. Click OK to close this Dialog box.

  4. Now close the document you have been working on (do not save it) and KPresenter will show the Choose Dialog box.


    Your new template in the KPresenter Choose
dialog.

    You want to Create a new document from a Template. Click to open the Screen Presentations tab and there is the template we made earlier.

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