Impress guide: Master slide color themes

Open https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documentation/en/IG7.6/IG76-ImpressGuide.pdf and go to page 58.

There is a section “Master slide color themes”. This feature was reworked in 24.2, but apparently the whole topic was just removed from the later guide editions. This is understandable as the rework was not documented in 24.2 release notes.

The feature is now found under Format - Theme… It can be accessed both in Normal and Master views (for now at least).

A couple of relevant commits:

commit ad873064b0135e4e00389cd38c7de688286c1fa1
Author: Tomaž Vajngerl tomaz.vajngerl@collabora.co.uk
Date: Sat Aug 12 04:03:57 2023 +0900

sd: add ThemeDialog to Impress/Draw, refactor ThemeColorChanger

Add "Theme" menu action, which starts the common ThemeDialog.
Add Impress/Draw specific ThemeColorChanger and remove the one in
svx, so that only the interface and common function remain.
Rename the svx ThemeColorChanger files to THemeColorChangerCommon.

commit f4ed90bcad83ea24644c1cbf077b369ae05f004e
Author: Tomaž Vajngerl tomaz.vajngerl@collabora.co.uk
Date: Tue Aug 22 08:14:10 2023 +0200

sd: remove theme tab page

Note added now to ReleaseNotes/24.2 - The Document Foundation Wiki

I’d like to see this working in Impress or Draw…

For Writer, you must define styles with the hard-coded name of the theme.

For Impress, you can’t create styles, not even change the name of the default styles.

I’m puzzled.

Olivier

Hello ilmari

What is the purpose of a theme in a LibreOffice presentation or document?

I did not know that themes were available for LibreOffice. I understand the basic principle because a theme sets the colours used in a document.

Would like some advice before I commit to including themes in the Impress, Draw and Math user guides.

Regards
PeeWee
Technical Writer

The 7.6 Impress guide explains it:

Color themes can be created as follows and used for Impress master slides. A color theme is applied to text and changes the background color, text color, and accents to make text readable against a background.

It’s not only about text, though, but also shapes.

Per what Olivier noted, maybe we should wait until the feature is more polished.

Thank you ilmari

Hello iImari

Thank you for spotting the error in the Impress Guide. I had missed out the complete section on Impress Themes. This section is now in place in the PDF and Published versions of the Impress Guide and Chapter 2.

With regards
PeeWee
Technical Writer