Tuesday, May 18, 2010

It seems that we can change the thumbnail of our templates. We just have to manually type in a different web address.

This template has a node [i.e. 4007], and its web address ends with its node number.

[e.g. http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/4007]

To find the page to update the thumbnail, you take the node number, and increase it by 1. In the case of this template, I increase 4007 by 1, to get 4008, and then we can go to the thumbnail's update page, or display page.

This presents wonderful opportunities. It allows us to create better thumbnails, without relying on the template content. I usually want my text templates to be completely blank, so it'll be easier for people to start using them, but I want the thumbnails to contain meaningful summarized information. I can use Draw to create those thumbnails, and then export them, and leave the text templates blank.

2 styles are used: "Measurements" & "Text". Both use FreeSans throughout.