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Color profile should work fine on NVIDIA video cards. Try to install latest drivers from NVIDIA website.

As developer of PicturesToExe, I use cyrillic symbols in filenames sometimes and it works. But currently PicturesToExe only partially supports Unicode and PicturesToExe will recognize cyrillic symbols in filenames only if current locale in Windows is Eastern Europe or Russia. p.s. Once created slideshow as EXE file will play anywhere even if you used cyrillic symbols in filenames of images/music.

Set checked "Permit control..." in Advanced tab of Project options.

For some reason .pte project file damaged. Please send it to my email address int.support /a dog/ wnsoft.com I'll explore this problem and can recover it. You can also recover project file. Open Project options, Comments tab and change again parameter shown on attached below screenshot:

New version 5.1 also will allow seting of individual colors for normal, hover and pressed states of Text object with assigned Action.

Please leave in this topic results of DVD encoding with your new PC.

Better to send more letters to ATI and ask when they going to fix this annoying bug...

Thanks for your comments! Al, I'll try in v5.2, Thanks.

I forgot to say, that PicturesToExe can remember last used mode (Timeline or Slide List), and if you closed the program when timeline mode was used, next time PicturesToExe will start in timeline mode.

Do you agree, if I will integrate "Customize synchronization" with main window in next version 5.2 (after 5.1 which scheduled for November)? Currently timeline located in a separate window and not all functions available for slideshows on the timeline which available for slides in main window. Also you can't quickly switch between slides and timeline modes. I suggest that "Timeline mode" button (renamed "Synchronization") in the main window switchs Slide list to the Timeline mode (with waveform). You can work with keypoints and access to all other features, including creating slideshow, access to Objects and animation editor which are impossible now from timeline mode. Also preview area of a slide will much larger at right-top corner of a window). Pressing "Slide list mode" will switch interface back to usual main window mode with Slide list. In fact, no separate window more and unified interface.

Thanks for additional information about your PC! I didn't expect that Dell still installed Geforce 2 MX even 1,5 year ago. I'm sorry, but it's very slow video card for PicturesToExe. If you upgrade to Geforce 7600GS or higher, VideoBuilder will work on 500% faster. Next version 5.1 will additionally speeds up on 200-300%. And encoding of 17 minute's slideshow will take about 35 minutes.

Encoding of DVD with PicturesToExe requires powerful videocard. What video card installed in your laptop? Or please let me know model of the laptop. Next version 5.1 will work much faster on modern video cards issused for PCs after 2002. Laptops often ship with low speed graphic card, but I think version 5.1 will work much faster on many laptops issued during last 2 years.

I just published updated PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.04 (October 12, 2007): http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) + Added link to Complete User Guide for PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0 (By Lin Evans and Jeff Evans (Appendix G By Ray Waddington) (127 pages, PDF file, 7 MB) to Help file. http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/PicturesToExe_v5...erManual_en.pdf * PicturesToExe didn't support 8-bit grayscale PNG images with alpha channel. The problem fixed now.

Peter, I just published updated version 5.04 (October 12, 2007): http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) It will fix this problem with 8-bit grayscale PNG images with alpha. The only moment. Because you already used these grayscale PNG images in the program, PicturesToExe added it to internal cache of converted PNG images and the problem still will exists. Solutions: - Please move this grayscale PNG images to another folder. - Or rename grayscale PNG image. - Or close PicturesToExe 5.04, find the next folder and delete all files in this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PicturesToExe\Versions\5.0\ConvertedImages\

A very beautiful place! Excellent done!

Thanks! It's a bug in PicturesToExe 5.03 which doesn't support 8-bit grayscale image with alpha channel. We just fixed it in future v5.1 I'll publish updated 5.04 with this fix tomorrow. As temporal solution please save this PNG file as 24-bit image with alpha channel.

Please see my reply here: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....ost&p=46424

Andrew, I agree and as I wrote above I will implement real preview of a slide picture in version 5.2 (after v5.1). I'll try to finish this code in v5.1, but maybe I'll find unexpected difficulties with old code and it will require more time. I prefer carefully develop such important features and perform all necessary tests for absolute reliability. Probably in case of your PowerPoint like slideshow with text objects, there is one helpful temporal solution. Use Text comment (see "Comment" field in the main window) for those text objects and then modify generated text objects as you want. Then choosing a slide in the Slide list you will see "Text" field and maybe it will be easier to locate necessary slide. Of course, I understand that can be only temporal solution.

I also converted several slideshows for my iPhone. And perfect playpack and quality!

Sorry, PTE still can't handle video in slideshow. We worked support of AVI files in VideoBuilder.

New version 5.1 will be intermediate release. We plan to release v5.1 in late 2007. The first beta will be most likely in a month. We decided release 5.1 earlier than scheduled and leave some features for future version 5.2 (Spring of 2008). Because "Masks" (version 5.2 or 5.3) and "Run Application" issues (v5.2) require more time of developing and not ready yet at this moment. So it would be better release 5.1 now without waiting of these two features which already in developement and will be inserted immediatelly when its ready. Because 5.1 is an intermediate release, there will be no major new features in the main program of PicturesToExe. But some new features, visual improvements are added. I still working with Ideas and Suggestions list for main program of PicturesToExe A pleasant sursprise with VideoBuilder. My colleague Sergey (who developes the code of VideoBuilder) and Artem, with my help prepared the next new features and improvements: > Encoding of DVD-Video disc (and AVI) works in 2 or 3 times faster now due to optimization for dual-core CPUs and using of hardware acceleration for video post-processing (if modern video card installed). Exactly same video quality as in previous version. > You can choose a number of items per page in DVD menu. > MPEG2 files can be added to a project. For example, you can encode your slideshow(s) to MPEG2 video file(s) and then use it again in new projects without re-encoding of it again. > Music for DVD menu (with "Fade in" and "Fade out" parameters). > Color adjusting of DVD menu (Hue, Saturation and Lightness). It allows very quickly modify a view of DVD menu and find your own individual style. > Adjusting of a background image parameters (Tile, Stretch, Fit) > Support of all kinds of AVI files imported to a project (including AVS video file scripts). For example, modern Intel Core 2 Duo based PC with ATI Radeon 1900XT encodes DVD with slideshows in 2 times faster than realtime. For example 2 minute's slideshow will take 1 minute of encoding.

Andrew, I just added the next improvement to Timeline window: it remembers cursor position and selected keypoint when you close and open Timeline window again. It remembers absolute index of keypoints (e.g. 6th keypoint). Real preview of a slide at the top-right corner of a Timeline and main windows will be in version 5.2. We plan to rework some moments in PTE's engine to make it possible (it concerned with optimization and quick response of a program).

Mike, I'll write about future version 5.1 in a new topic within a couple of days.

It was my mistake - removing of this global option from v5.0 and I recently added it again to future version 5.1. There will be global option - "Wait for a key press to show next slide" and you can override this behaviour in properties of particular slide(s). The best from both worlds. Any combinations.

No, regrettably it's ATI video card in your laptop discards color profile in fullscreen mode of slide show. Confirmed bug of ATI's drivers under Windows XP.