VideoPsalm 1.17

VideoPsalm 1.17 is available since beginning of August 2017.

New features ​for VideoPsalm 1.17

Following features are announced:

New document types can be dragged into the agenda and displayed:

• Web site (an internet connection is required)
• YouTube video (an internet connection is required)
• Vimeo video (an internet connection is required)
• PDF (1)
• PowerPoint (2) (improved)
• Word (3)
• Excel (3)
• Write (4)
• Calc (4)
• Standalone audio with background

Associate documents to a song

• Web site
• YouTube video
• Vimeo video
• PDF (1)
• PowerPoint (2)
• Word (3)
• Excel (3)
• Video (4)
• Audio (4)

and display the associated document instead of the song lyrics, while being able to find the song by its title and lyrics.

(1) Acrobat Reader not required
(2) Microsoft PowerPoint 2003+ required
(3) Microsoft Office not required
(4) Libre Office not required

Footer and header visibility
It is now easy to select on which song slides the header and the footer will be displayed:

• First slide
• Last slide
• Middle slides

7 new skins, for a total of 45
The default skin is now "Office 2016 Colorful".

New style attributes

• Uppercase/lowercase first character/whole lyrics
• Wrap text/no wrap

Precisely set presentation screen location
This can be useful when presenting on some televisions that cut-off the screen borders (for example Samsung 60" TVs).
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ChordPro chords can now optionally be considered as normal text
This is useful for languages that use the bracket symbols.

The Windows 10 "out of memory" error message is potentially gone
Your feedback is required here because we are not able to reproduce the problem.
Possibility to deactivate the text shadow rendering in the settings.
This could help Windows 10 PCs with the "out of memory" error message.

Windows file association

• Import a VideoPsalm Bible or a songbook by double-clicking onto it from the Windows file explorer.
• Double-clicking an agenda opens it in VideoPsalm.

New and improved song import filters

• CCLI .txt (new)
• OpenSong (improved)
• Text (new)
• EasyWorship 2009 (improved)
• EasyWorship 2006 (new)
• Presenter (new)
• .rtf (new)
• OpenLP, before and after 2.4 (improved)
• Lyrix (new)
• and more to come

Improved PowerPoint automation

• No more unexpected PowerPoint "Save" prompt at the end of the presentation
• Display of the animations inside slides
• New "Previous slide" button
• Progress bar during the loading of a presentation
• Settings to adjust/correct the PowerPoint presentation screen location on PCs where VideoPsalm detects wrongly the screen size.
• etc.

Improved/corrected video display

• No more black screen
• The progress cursor now goes over the 3 min 53 limit
• etc.

Improved text rendering

• No more too big line indents
• No more highlighted text wrong size
• Chords are displayed even if the song verse has no lyrics
• etc.

Improved message display

• Top
• Bottom
• Middle
• Multi-line

Improved clock display

• Analog clock
• Digital clock

Songbook management with context menus

• Merge songbooks
• Split songbook
• Add songbook
• Delete songbook
• Add song
• Delete song
• etc.

Miscellaneous

• Possibility to adjust some table column widths in the settings. Useful for screens with really high pixel density.
• Tooltips are now shorter (some tooltips were really long).
• Song verse styles keep attached to their song verse while editing the lyrics.
• Improved opening of agendas and documents.
• Improved library switching, with a progress bar.
• Secured songbook save, additionally with a backup file.
• Improved/corrected style explorer.
• Improved main dialog panel layout.
• It is now possible to loop the first items. Before it wasn't possible to loop the items if there wasn't any non looping-item before them.
• Improved translation grid (no more immediate row sort while editing).