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Printing Theme

Florian — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:55:00 +0000

Long time – no Theme. I did publish a tutorial about theme creation, but it might be scary for many people. I also haven’t heard any success stories, so when I finally got a request for a Theme, I happily obliged. And here it is for all users to enjoy.

It’s actually a themePack file with two variations of the same idea: both are for printing purposes – your Forms will look like regular text documents. The fonts of the “Printing” Theme are true black with no transparency and in five popular sizes (Times: 12-14-18-24-36). I also matched the 12 pt. size for the medium size of the field label font (Arial). Additionally, I removed the Media field border. An empty Media field still shows a border, but once it has content, the border disappears. The borders for the text (number) fields you can turn off yourself – from the View menu.

When you get to the Print dialog, still check the box “don’t print background,” because the background isn’t true white.

And here comes the clue: the second Theme variation (I call it “Invisible”) sets the Field Label font color to true white, which makes your field labels disappear and invisible on the print-out! This feature had been requested before, and I would like to give full credit to my friend Barb for the idea.

Screenshot (Printing Theme; field borders turned off):

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Partial Screenshot (“Invisible” Theme)

You can’t see the field label (“Picture”)! This opens up new opportunities: for example, you could use this to create a stationary with a logo – which was another frequent request.

Enjoy!

Download: Printing – Theme
Unzip the file and double-click it: the two Themes will be installed automatically, regardless if Bento is running or not. They will go into the Neutrals folder in the Theme Chooser. If that folder doesn’t exist, it will be created.

Neutrals Theme Pack

Simon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:45:20 +0000

Description
Geared towards improved legibility, the Neutrals theme pack includes three themes which make use of subtler tones and consistent fonts to provide a cleaner Bento work environment. The themes are:

Neutral – light gray with subtle darker highlights
Shade – darker charcoals
Chlorine – clean and bright

In addition, each theme is available either in its original version or in a new VR version where the font size increments are not as dramatic.

Installation Notes
Unzip the file and double-click Neutral.ThemePack. Bento 2 will open and install the three themes under a new Neutral category in the Theme Chooser.

Note to previous Neutral users: You should delete the Neutral folder from USERNAME>Library>Application Support>Bento>Themes PRIOR TO INSTALLING the new bundle.

Download: http://www.diode.tv/neutral/

Screenshot(s)

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Neutral Theme Version 2

Simon — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:50:11 +0000

NOTE: This theme has been superseded by Partick’s Neutral Theme Pack.

Patrick La Roque has created a theme which he has called Neutral, so named because it is designed to be clean and neutral. It uses Helvetica for the font and the colour scheme is whites and grays — no purple streak or Comic Sans.

The theme is available from Patrick’s web site as a free download and you can find it at http://www.diode.tv/neutral.