Igor

This "% of the screen to show slideshow" option a little modified, but exists:

Moelwyn, Thank you, we fixed this bug with shadow you wrote about: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) It could happens with shadow for JPEG images in slide show when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled and there were portrait and landscape images with similar size (800x600 and 600x800) and same shadow parameters. I'm guessing, speaking synchronize slides to music you mean ending of a last slide with end of a music? if yes, just set checked "Auto spread slides along music" option in Customize synchronization window (by "Timeline" button). Patrick, Try final release, transition effects much speeded up (except of Mosaic) in comparison with latest Beta 19.

I just uploaded updated build 5.01 http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) * Fixed bug with incorrect size of shadow for JPEG images in slide show when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled. * Fixed bug when Distance of shadow for a button object changes according length of caption. * Fixed bug with earlier appearing of a next slide where set "Quick transition" when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled. I apologize that we missed these moments in final release.

Fred, Do you see transition effects between slides? Fade effect, for example.

Fred, If you want, I can give you URL on old Matrox drivers (issued in 2002 for Windows XP) for G550 where all worked fine. I don't know why after 2003 year they disabled some important features of Direct 3D. We have G550 card at our office and I only can wonder. Matrox didn't reply on our request about this problem.

New versions of drivers for Matrox G550 don't support import kind of textures for slide show. So in earlier betas transition effects didn't work (worked as quick transition). Now we read capabilities of video card and if it doesn't support such textures, we sets second CPU based graphical engine. In fact Matrox G550 doesn't correctly support DirectX and Direct 3D. We can't allow partial work of Matrox G550 in hardware accelerated mode when some things work and some don't work. I'm sorry.

Thank you! p.s. I unpined old "Bug-reports 5.0 beta" topic not because version 5.0 doesn't contain possible bugs But as I hope we could miss small number of bugs after beta-testing and no need in special topic. Let put bug-reports in individual topics.

Since final release of version 5.0 all future versions will install separately. Like "PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0", "PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.1", and etc. You can uninstall all previous versions/betas. If uninstaller will ask "Keep personal files (templates)..." click YES button.

Ken, They already bought Deluxe version in beta state and can use final version!

User who bought previous versions of PicturesToExe can continue to use for free version 5.0 except of VideoBuilder. if they want to use VideoBuilder and burn DVD-Video discs, they have to pay for upgrade $20.

Please send all project in ZIP archive (in main menu | File | Create backup in ZIP archive) I just sent you PM message with details.

Dear friends! We're glad to present PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0 http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) Build 5.04 Updated: October 12, 2007 We're very grateful to all people who helped us during two years of development of version 5.0. Thank you for your new ideas, advices and bug-reports - all it made better PicturesToExe! I will happy to continue our common work for the next versions. Key features of version 5.0 - New graphical engine which uses all power of your video card. - Burning of DVD-Video disc with your slide shows right in PicturesToExe. - Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects in real-time with high quality. Sharp picture and smooth animation. Special option "Perspective correction for Zoom" to reach natural looking zooming. - Completely new editor of objects and animation. Proportionally scalable objects. Improved Text objects, drop shadow or glow can be applied for any object. Seven skins for Button objects. - New cool view of Navigation bar. - Tree of folders in main window of PicturesToExe. - PNG images support. - Improved quality of music player. - Improved support of Windows Vista (in main program of PicturesToExe). - Undo/Redo feature. Example of slide show created in PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0: http://wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip (8 MB) And many other slide shows: http://wnsoft.com/download.htm Base version of PicturesToExe 5.0 is free for all existing registered users. If you want to burn DVD-Video discs you have to pay $20 for Upgrade to Deluxe edition: https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsel...e%20to%20Deluxe Full list of new features in version 5.0: + New Visual editor where you can add Pan/Zoom/Rotate effect. See "Objects and Animation" button (Ctrl+ on the main window. > Added "Drop Shadow and Glow" option for objects (see Objects and Animation window). > Added "Diagonal" style for Rectangle objects. > Added alpha parameter to color of Rectangle objects. You can set alpha 255 for one side and 0 for another side and make partially semi-transparent rectangle. > Added "Perspective correction for Zoom" option for objects. See "Objects and animation" window. With this option enabled we simulate true movement of a camera to an object. > You can adjust any non-linear speed for Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects for objects. + Added Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Redo (Ctrl+Y) features. See Main menu | Project | Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Redo (Ctrl+Y). + Transition effects: + All transition effects work much more smooth with new graphical engine, especially "Curling of page" + You can change center of appearance for "Circle" effect. + Improved Navigation bar. > New Navigation bar themes. > Fade in/out effects. > New parameters. > Added support of skins. You can add any images of buttons and background, Navigation bar can be semi-transparent and has a shadow. See folder "NavBar" in PicturesToExe's folder. Just add new folder to create new style of Navigation bar. + Added tree of folders to main window. See Main Menu | View | Show tree (Ctrl+G) + Added support of PNG images files (including PNG with partial semi-transparency). + You can quickly remove slide(s) from Slide list simply dragging them back to File list. + You can quickly press Enter to show "Customize slide" window for selected slide(s). + Main image of a slide can be transparent GIF or transparent PNG now. + Added new function to Main menu | File. "Create backup in ZIP" which compress all files of your project into one ZIP archive. It can be useful for moving project to another PC. + Vastly improved speed of work of PicturesToExe's main window. Instant response now. Especially when you work with 1000 or more slides in the Slide list. + Added new style of background image of a slide: "Fit to screen". + New view of color dialog. + Added option "Keep slide aspect ratio" (1,3333 by default) to correctly draw slide + Added "Scale keypoints in objects (on time change)" option in properties of a slide, "Main" tab. This option useful if you have complex animation (with several keypoints) and you need to change slide time from 4 seconds to 12 seconds, for example. + AVI video output window: + Added "Anti-flicker filter" which is turned on by default. + Added "HD-1080" mode. If you slideshow has 4:3 aspect ratio it produces 1440x1080, if 16:9 then 1920x1080 + Added "HD-720 progressive, 50/60 frames" mode. + Fully rewritten music player and improved quality of sound. + Vastly improved quality of video output (AVI, DVD and HDTV). + Ability to insert comment or description from EXIF info of JPEG images. See Project options | Comments tab | "Set comments for all slides as" | "Display EXIF". on various displays (usual 4:3 and wide screen). See Project options | Screen tab. + Added compatibility of main interface of PicturesToExe with Large font (120 dpi) mode of Windows. + Main interface of PicturesToExe supports "Clear type" font mode of Windows XP. + Various improvements in File list in the main window. + You can customize double click in the Slide list: show Slide window or Objects and animation window. See main menu | View | Advanced options. + Enlarged size of preview area in "Customize synchronization" window. + Added text macros. + New "About PicturesToExe" window. + New Welcome Screen. + Added "Loop this slide", "Pause at the end of this slide", "No actions after this slide" options in properties of a slide, "Main" tab. + New drive bar (in main window). + You can create screensaver from any EXE file with slide show which created in v5.00 or later. Just rename SlideShow.exe to SlideShow.scr + New drive bar (in main window). + Added "Pause when window of slide show becomes inactive" option (Project options | Main tab). + Added global option "Allow modification of EXE file with slide show" (Main menu | View | Advanced). This option disabled (by default) and if EXE file with slide show damaged or infected, it will warn that slide show damaged and will not run. When this option enabled, you can use EXE packer/crypors to pack or additionally protect EXE file. + Added compatibility of main application of PicturesToExe with Windows Vista. + Added compatibility of main application of PicturesToExe with restricted user accounts in Windows. + Improved installer. Updated build 5.01 * Fixed bug with incorrect size of shadow for JPEG images in slide show when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled. * Fixed bug when Distance of shadow for a button object changes according length of caption. * Fixed bug with earlier appearing of a next slide where set "Quick transition" when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled. Updated build 5.02 + Updated Polish language file. * Duration value didn't show on the status bar when you visually changed duration of a transition effect on the timeline. * Fixed rare bug of previous versions when "Select all images" action in popup menu not always worked for the File list. Updated build 5.03: + Creating of ISO image of DVD disc in VideoBuilder works much faster now. In 10x faster. * Fixed bug under old Windows 95/98/Me in the slideshow engine. When Help window, or startup screen adjusted without an image appeared, slideshow crashed. * Fixed bug when startup screen with an image could be larger than current screen resolution (for example, if you used huge 3500x2200 image). Updated build 5.04: + 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.

Mike, You use very very old beta. Latest build - Pre-Release and final version will be soon.

Peter, Please report to ATI about this problem. See the URL below. Thanks in advance.

Alain, Limitation of this layout. But I can't quickly fix it, sorry. Strange. Unzip this project to some another folder, say C:\MyFolderWhat path will be displayed in this case? I'll try to fix it quickly.

Alain, Please remind me what video card you have installed? p.s. you forgot to attach log file.

Alain, Thanks. Concerning scaling of keypoints. You're right. It's more a logical problem than a bug. I knew about it. We wrote keypoints system 2 years ago in absolute time values and too late discovered that keypoints can't be in two variants - in percents and in absolute time. I wrote manual scaling for some cases, but it's not enough to care about all possible cases when correction necessary. To fix this problem it's necessary to vastly rewrite keypoints code and I hope we'll do it in version 5.1 Sometimes I regret about complexity of some features in PicturesToExe - too many professional options and it becomes difficult to manage all it. p.s. I've replied you in another topic on your question with three slide's project.

Alain, I don't see any problem with your project. Log files shows that all is OK. Probably it is a visual impression? Do you always see this problem (if run 2nd, 3rd time, etc)? Please run notepad, type: Project1.exe -log -frametimes Save this file as Test.bat and put it to same folder where located your Project1.exe file with 3 slides. Run Test.bat file and when it finishes, you'll find Project1.log text log file. Please send it to me (as attachment to the forum message).

Dave, Thanks for details! I think it is a bug in Photoshop 7, if other program had similar problem. We use very well known JPEG library which is used in thousands of products.

I just published a little updated build of Pre-Release with minor changes and new language files. It should be final code. Final release will be on Monday.

Gareth, What video card used in your laptop? If it's an integrated graphical solution and overall system memory 256 MB, video card might take 64 MB for own needs, so you have only 192 MB of system memory in slide show. 1) First possible reason - lack of video memory. 2) Lack of system memory. Or both reasons together. To handle very large images in slide show it's necessary to have NVIDIA or ATI video card. Newest laptops with integraded graphical card based on Intel 965 platform (codename "Santa Rosa") also should be enough fast. p.s. Lin adviced very well solution for this particular image which will keep same high quality and smoothness of animation on your laptop.

Lin, I also was not able reproduce this problem even with EXE file KGHalbe sent me. By the way, using of "Desaturate" action in Photoshop to make grayscale image give not perfect result. Because it just removes color information without analyse of color components. Green, Red and Blue colors have different brightness in our eye. So true converting color image to grayscale should know about this moment and sets different brightness. It's interesting, but calling "Grayscale" option and then back "RGB" will do correct converting to grayscale image. Please look on attached screenshot: p.s. PixBuilder Studio performs correct converting to grayscale image.

Al, It's because in v4.48 slide show ignores time for loading of images (not synchronize mode): Loading 1st slide + time of slide + Loading of 2nd slide + time of this slide, etc. In v5.0 slides show exactly specified time as you see on the timeline.

Dave, Amazed! Without your help I couldn't solve this problem! Please say me - this problem happened only with grayscaled JPEGs saved in Photoshop 7 or with later versions, too? And this bug occured in v5.00 only or in v4.48, too?

Al, v4.48 renders simple slide with main image faster than version 5.0, because in old version it always fully opaque rectangular image which can be quickly copies to the screen. In the new version slide may contains animated objects, semi-transparent images - rendering of such potentially complex slide a little more long process. We can't write individual codes for every case, we have to use universal code. Version 5.0 still small 270 KB slide engine with built in support of JPEG, MP3, PNG, BMP, GIF. And two graphical engines. All Pan/Zoom effects and other code in 270 KB of code. Main purpose of PicturesToExe - displaying of slide show with usual time interval - several seconds and Pan/Zoom effects. And I hope version 5.0 operates well for this task. p.s. Probably you're still using old Pre-Release build, log file says that it is not latest version.