pibooth-template-chooser

Pibooth plugin letting guests choose the picture template on the wait screen.

The wait screen shows the selected template in place of the last picture: the first capture of the last picture assembled again in the single photo page of the template, or grey photo holders until a picture exists. A discreet caption at the top gives its name and position in the list. Guests change the template by swiping horizontally on the screen, by tapping the < > arrows of the caption, or with the arrow keys. The chosen template is used for the next pictures; the saved and printed picture is not changed.

The templates are the draw.io files of the pibooth-picture-template plugin, which must be installed (with pip install --no-deps to keep the pibooth fork).

Configuration

[TEMPLATE_CHOOSER]
# Directory of the picture templates guests choose from on the wait screen
directory = ~/.config/pibooth/templates

Every *.xml file of the directory is offered. The template set in [PICTURE] template is selected at startup when it belongs to the directory.

Template style

A template may come with a style file of the same name (hollywood.xml and hollywood.cfg) giving the name displayed in the caption and the style of the texts, which replaces the [PICTURE] values while the template is selected:

[TEMPLATE]
name = Hollywood
text_colors = ((255, 255, 255), (230, 200, 205))
text_fonts = ('../fonts/Montserrat-Bold.ttf', '../fonts/Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf')
text_alignments = center

Relative font paths are resolved from the style file directory. Without a style file, the name comes from the file name and the [PICTURE] style is kept.

The texts themselves (footer_text1, footer_text2) stay in pibooth.cfg, shared by all the templates of an event.