Igor

Slide-show have to work on any PC with any Windows. Maybe screen saver is set for 1 minute on those notebooks and desktop? Or log-off option in Windows after 1 minute? Of course, I'll check up for this situation tomorrow, maybe I'll buy new notebook for more testing. Please try with another slide-shows, if it possible. p.s. I think that you have EXE file created with v4.40 or later?

I consider that we'll show beta #1 before Christmas. I know that it's very difficult to wait so long, but v5.00 is not simple task. It's beautiful and highest mountain for us. We're working maximally fast. tom95521 *Any* EXE file created in PTE v5.00 will work *everywhere*. If no modern video card or old DirectX version, this slide-show *automatically* will use CPU based effects like Fade/Circle/Mosaic/Pan/Zoom/Rotate/etc. We'll try to make that "old" effects like Fade effect will work with same speed in v5.00 as in v4.44 on slow PCs. Please give us a chance with v5.00

If you create slide-shows without Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects (like current slide-shows) they will work on any PC (even old) as earlier. No need to change anything - PTE v5.00 automatically chooses optimal graphical engine and you have one EXE file for playback anywhere. If you create slide-show with Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects, it also will work anywhere, but smooth ideal playback will be reached on PC with video cards like Geforce 3 and higher or Radeon 8500 / X300 and higher. As our poll shows currently about 70% of PCs are fully ready for Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects. But I hope during 1-2 years there will be more PCs with powerful video cards, because next Windows Vista from Microsoft (next Autumn of 2006) requires at least Geforce 5 FX or ATI Radeon 9500 with 64 MB of video RAM and such video cards will be very widely spreaded. New user interface of Windows Vista fully uses DirectX and 3D mode (even Pixel Shaders 2.0!) and features of video cards for various visual effects, like shadows, semi-transparency, scalable windows. Also once upon a time tried high quality Pan/Zoom/Rotate and animations with special effects in v5.00, I think, you will not want to create slide-shows without these features

The response from Invision support:

Slide-show and Visual editor - both use new graphical engine. By default if hardware allows, DirectX engine is prefered. On more slower video card it automatically use CPU based engine. If you want it possible to manually choose engine for your slide-show (DirectX or CPU based) in Project options. However it's impossible to mix these engines - only some one engine for entire slide-show. But as I wrote we will not release final v5.00 if some problems leaved unsolved.

Thank you, Bill for letting me know about this problem. I just sent you email with request about help with additional testing, please read it.

Ok, We decided to add new Visual editor right to v5.00, because it could be strange to mix new graphical engine of v5.00 and old Visual editor with old objects. So new Visual editor will allow: - Scalable objects (same proportions at any screen resolution). But also you can add images without scaling (as now). - Animation (Pan/Zoom/Rotate) of every object. - Resizing of objects. - A motion of objects using several key points (including complex motion on a curve) And etc. Same 1,5 MB of PTE v5.00 and small EXE file with slide-show. In the nearest time, we'll publish a little demonstration (EXE with several slides) to show new Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects. p.s. we found many difficulties with Matrox video cards (G400, G550). Unfortunately they have terrible drivers for work in DirectX (but all know their excellent 2D graphics). Of course, we've solved these problems. But it required additional days.

Thank you, Brian. I just sent a request to Invision about this moment. I'll write here about the result.

Brian, Please try to create a new test topic (I'll delete it later) and look at your new count of posting. I just tried and it increases this number of my posting.

Bill, So EXE slide-shows play OK, but without music? How WinAmp or Media Player play music? And how work 3D games? As you said about problems with hard drive, maybe you didn't install all necessary drivers (especially for motherboard, for sound card)? On CD disc to your motherboard should be drivers which necessary to install. As another variant - ask your computer seller to help you with correct installing of all drivers.

Only new graphical engine can give highly precision scaling of objects. This long development because there are a lot of linked features. One new thing requires to add another one and etc.

I hope that v5.00 already will able to scale objects to keep same proportions in any screen resolution.

I a little bit updated PTE - v4.44 http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr.zip (1.4 MB) * Fixed problem with error message during in Preview mode with some JPEG images which have incorrect EXIF fields.

centreofengland What email address did you try to enter? andysavage...@.... ? Invision wrote me that your profile and "Andy S" had one email address. I think it's a mistake after upgrading of the forum. If you want, please reply me to int_support@

Ray I just sent you an email. Please read it and let me know how it will work now. You can write me to int_support@.............wnsoft.com p.s. I was unable to reach your email address (raydchilds@......) please write to my email address and I'll send you the new password. centreofengland Invision wrote me that they solved this problem. Please visit your member profile and re-enter again your email address.

I'm sorry for the delay with my answer! I just sent a request to Invision and I hope that they will solve this problem soon.

Barry, Yes, we plan to increase price when v5.00 will arrive (maybe $47 for Business license), but, of course, no additional payments for buyers of old versions of PTE. Maybe our pricing is not suitable for larger companies, but we find it optimal for PTE. Also many people help us with advices and beta-testing of PicturesToExe. p.s. please wait a little more for v5.00 beta. It's a difficult and long work and we want to show reliable product. Just so serious step in development of PTE required to write a lot of new code, keeping in the mind future features of v5.00 and next versions. All next versions will be released much faster than v5.00 because we've wrote now the new base/foundation.

There is a good and well known InnoSetup free ulitity which creates such package. See www.innosetup.com.

Yes, no additional upgrades or fees.

Please let me know what version of PicturesToExe you used to create these slide-shows? And what CPU in your PC?

The good idea, but the most difficult technical problem - how to mix two different images with differect color profiles in one limited sRGB screen in slide-show? Teoretically it's possible, but in this case we will need to mix images in back buffer with 16-bit per channel (48-bit). Only modern video card supports it. And officially Microsoft doesn't support this feature in DirectX. However personally I think that there is no serious benefits to use color management in slide-show. The difference is small (after convertation in Photoshop from Adobe RGB to sRGB) and especially not noticeable in compressed JPEG images with 200-500 KB of file size.

Of course, there is only one v4.43

1) Not synchronized slide-show 2) 0 sec. and 1 ms. for all slides (Project options -> Main tab) 3) Push effect with 3000 ms. 4) "Fit to screen" option in Screen tab 5) Images with aspect ratio 4:3 (1024x768 or 1280x960, or etc.)

It should works fine in PTE v4.43 I just created small example: www.wnsoft.com/test/Project1_vid1.avi (900 KB)

If you plan to use Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects in the next PicturesToExe v5.00, I highly recommend you to buy a laptop with a good NVIDIA or ATI video card.