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Thanks, Alain! But I'm afraid it's impossible at this moment. Only modern video cards can do transformation of drop shadow in realtime. And it requires vastly modify PTE. So I leaved your idea for future.

I'll prepare special test which will help to find reason of this problem.

Stephane, I'm very amazed by your excellent work! And I'm happy that our new PicturesToExe 5 can be used for such dynamic slide shows almost video.

Tom, It's a bug, of course. We'll fix it in beta 10 very soon. As a temporal solution, please rotate an image visually. Click near to a corner of an image and rotate it several laps as you need.

We've added support of rotated images to future beta 10

Al, Thanks, but I see startup window, although it's a large image and OK button below border of the screen.

Please create EXE file and send me please (with one slide and activated startup window). I still can't reproduce this problem.

Al, It's activated and should work (if no bugs).

I just sent you PM message.

Thank you, I also thought about this idea. Maybe later in next versions. I added it to my TODO list. The most serious problem in user interface. I would not complicate view of Visual editor.

I'm afraid it difficult to do. In v5.00 all that you see on a slide - objects: main image, text comment.

Thanks, I've added your suggestion to my TODO list. But it can be added in next versions only.

Dave, Sorry, I was not able to reproduce this problem. Please send me this EXE file and .pte project file.

I thought about this feature yesterday. We'll try to make it possible in nearest versions.

Thanks for your responses! Peter, If you use unique and rare text font you need to Rasterize a text to PNG. Jim, Rotation function is not fully realized in beta 9.

Beta 9 ready.

PicturesToExe Deluxe v5.00 Beta 9A: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe_beta.zip (4 MB) Key features: - Support of old video cards. - All music modes and synchronization. - Text objects and support of old objects created in v4.48. - Drop shadow and glow for Text and other objects. - New music player with better quality of sound. Please read full list of new features of beta 9 below: + Objects and animation window: - Added "Text" object; - Added "Button" object. And 6 styles. - Drop shadow and glow for objects. + Support of old video cards. See Project options | Screen tab | "Hardware acceleration" option. When it enabled slide show tries to use video card for maximal quality of picture and smoothnes of Pan/Zoom effects. In case of old video card slide show automatically uses CPU based graphical engine. + Added templates for shadows. See "Drop shadow" window. + Fully rewritten music player and improved quality of sound. + WnSoft Video Builder: - Added "Burn ISO image" function. See main menu | File - You can create new DVD menu template using current templates. - Added "Apply settings for each page" option to main menu | Edit on the second page (customizing of DVD menu). - Accepts source 48 KHz audio files of a slide show without reconverting. You'll reach maximal quality now with 48 KHz WAV/MP3 music files, because DVD-Video disc uses 48 KHz as native format. - New template for DVD menu ("Pictures"). + Added text macros. + Added "Low quality of resizing" option for objects. You can use this option for masks images where you need to have sharp edges of an image. + Copying of objects in "Objects and animation" window works via Windows clipboard now. + Much more fast work of File tree in the main window of PicturesToExe. + Text comments to slides work again. Beta 9A (April 20, 2007): + Portrait photos (with rotate flag in JPEG EXIF) supported again. * Fixed bug of previous beta 9 with impossibility to set Rotation angle more than 360 degree. * Fixed bug of previous beta 9 with incorrect wave form (on the timeline) on some music files. * Fixed bug of previous beta versions where customized Startup window (of slide shows) didn't appear. p.s. of course, this beta still may contains bugs - we did a lot of changes and new features since past 3 months.

Dominique, We just fully solved problem with invisible colors in edges of mask images. PicturesToExe will care about this question.

Dominique, That's sad. It's already second time when somebody disturbs your excellent web site.

Terri, I just sent again your registration key for PicturesToExe.

On my PC preview of slideshows (beta 9) starts on 1 second faster than in beta 8 or v4.48 Aleksey well improved start time. Video memory usage on 10-25% lesser than in beta 8.

Den, In beta 10 (almost immediately after beta 9).

Yes, it will be almost fully functional version 5.00 The only missed v5.00 features leaved for beta 10-11 (two weeks after beta 9) - Activate non-linear speeds of objects (already written) - Activate Navigation bar (already written) - Actions of buttons/hyperlinks on click (already written) - Activate Copyright logo (already written) - Textured background of a slide - Windowed mode

Next beta 9 will be published in 3-5 days. + New music player with better quality. + All music modes, exact synchronization, WMA/OGG, sound comments, etc + Text and Button objects, text comments, text macros + Support of old video cards + Rewinding of slides (Left/Right keys) + Drop shadow and glow for objects and images + Fully ready VideoBuilder

Yes, it should works.