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Igor: If I read you right, the much requested "keep the OBJECTS in place when Resolution changes" is coming in 4.50 For that I will owe you a large bottle of Champagne !!!!

Larry: Al's route has worked for me the few times that I have needed to do what you want. Yes the occasional time I have seen a momentary "flash", but not always. It seems to be a function of the shows that being put together. I have not figured out what the "commonality" is for getting the flash vs not getting it. I suspect load time might be a possible issue. If I used that feature more I would likely have it figured out and Igor would resolve it for us I am sure.

I have had some success with copying my slides using using a gizmo attached to the digital camera lens. The gizmo from here fits on the lens of most digital cameras and holds the slide to be copied. I used a flash on the slide to copy it. I have good success with some slides, and not so good with others. Not sure what the difference is. Scanning is best, but this gizmo does a remarkable job at times compared to commercial scans.

Kevthewev: Another "kick at the cat" I assume you have your copyright info on a jpg file. Can you not SELECT your copyright information from your jpg and right click "layer via copy". Then drag it over to the image, adjusting the opacity as desired ? That does mean doing it in PhotoShop for each image, but there is likely a way to set up an action to do it in batch mode.

Moelwyn: Sounds as though you are running the show from the CD, and then while it is showing, you are rejecting the CD. Maybe I misunderstood, but if that is what you are doing, you can't do that. You need the CD to stay in the drive if you want the show to continue. Yes, when taking a CD out prematurely when copying from it, I have found the same problem of the computer telling me the disk is not there even though I have re-inserted it. You just have to learn to not reject it before the computer is finshed with it. You could copy the show to the hard drive and then reject the CD if that is what you really want

Hi Kevthewev: Welcome to PTE !! Re the Copyright sign: Is what you want this sign: © ??? If so then add it as a TEXT layer to your image using ARIAL and keystrokes ALT+0169. Use your caharacter Map to find the ascii keystrokes if you don't want to use ARIAL. Then reduce the opacity of the text layer to the level you want. Sorry, but I am not sure what you mean by the second question re positioning the text

Igor: You are "a bear for punishment aren't you ?" I think I have mentioned these before, but just to have them in one place: - OBJECTS that stay aligned regardless of screen resolution (I think you have been hearing this for a few years) - "jump to" using a hot key (no navigation bar on screen) - Something to tell the screen saver not to come on during a show - "run application after last slide" that would work when in PREVIEW mode - getting rid of paths without having to use TEMPLATES If you can do half the things we are asking, you will deserve a long vacation

Bill: Most of us recommend file sizes of about 200kb max (well maybe 250-300 in a pinch). Personally I re-size to 800x600 or 1024x768 and save as jpg quality 5 or 6. That can be done in a batch routine in PhotoShop so it is no work for you. Depending on screen size, you may want to use larger image size. I suspect your problem is PTE trying to read the large files from the CD in time for the next transition. Reading from CDs can be quite slow depending on your drive. Autoruns do work, there have been many discussions and several solutions used by many PTE users. Do a search, bottom right of forum screen, for AUTOSTART. BOXIG has a utility that will do it, plus run your shows from the CD. Part of this is in a current on-going thread. I prefer to use a "front page" with objects on the first page that link to each show. Then I just click on the show I want to present and away I go. We all have our own routines that produce the same end result. Good luck

Igor: With regards to the JUMP to Feature... What we were thinking of was for synchronized or non-synchonized shows to be able to "jump" to any chosen slide (or time spot) by clicking on a "hot key" (" j ' as an example). You be able to jump forward and backwards as you checked out the show. It was found to be very useful to a group of people who used to use another software, who are now "sold" on PTE, but miss that feature. It helps with creating shows. While PTE allows to start a certain point in PREVIEW, once started there you can no longer jump (in synched shows). Re using HOT KEYS rather than the navbigation bar allows control of the show without the 'distracting" navigation bar and cursor on the screen. Hot keys could be as you described plus a few more perhaps such as the "J" all of which could be used with synched or non-synched shows without the navigation bar and the mouse cursor on the screen. Is that a little clearer ? Thanks

Bob (Lumenlux): Sorry I was so slow... (Alrobin had to clue me in via phone, but I see you posted a clarification for me the thick headed person.) Yes your option is a good work around in the interim. Alan Lyons: Your idea has merit too, but in this case we were trying to fine tune the music and images in show one that lead into show two and we needed the "real" show one ending to make sure we had it right. Thanks guys !

Bob: You understand the issue correctly, I think Igor does, but his work around does not rteally solve the problem in the interim. Your idea of using an OBJECT is another choice (that I did not think of) of synthsizing it. It would not really show how it would work in the real presentation though as it would be a manual interaction - but it would be close. Thanks

Thanks Igor, sounds great. You are your responsive self Any chance of having "control of show" without the navigation bar showing, with the actions being controlled by hot keys ?

I think something like this might have been talked about before, but a "jump to..." feature would be nice. This would allow you to jump to any slide number (or time point) in a show (be it synchronized or not). The feature could be added to the navigation bar, or better yet, use a short cut key of "J" that you could tap on at anytime and enter the slide number you want to jump to (or time point) with or without "permit control of show" turned on).

Love the "Run application after last slide", BUT on the basis of currently working with three shows, done by different people, to have them run back to back, we decided it would be nice if the "Run application after last slide" function would work when in PREVIEW mode. That would permit you to make changes to the preceeding show's ending slides/music etc, run it in preview mode and check the smoothness etc on the next show starting, without having to run the full preceeding show via the .exe file. Much faster (and less boring ) We tried the full screen PREVIEW as well as the TIME LINE synch preview, neither kicked started the next show.

Further to Alan's note... When you re-size to whatever pixel size you decide to go with, (But make sure they are max'ed at whatever screen size you opt for) don't bother changing the resolution it really does not make a difference. But save the images as jpg's at a quality to give a maximum file size of 250-300kb.

Count me in for the specs too please. We are in the market for a new laptop. Brand and model number that would make it real nice for us, but that is asking for too much I suspect Thx

CC: It worked !!! As much as I have used PTE over and over and over in the past few years, I must admit I have never used templates. Guess I had better start doing it now !!!! Thanks very much. I didn't have much hair left to pull out

I believe this problem has been discussed many months before in terms of "re-compiling" a .pte file within the same computer but in a different (sub)folder - the solution I understand is found by using templates. However this time the "fun" had last night was when one of three of us, (working on separate PTE shows to be linked via "Run application after last slide") had to load their pte file and images into a different computer than the one on which it was originally saved. The original pte file and images were on the D drive, the re-compilation was being done on the C drive of the other computer (It has no D drive by the way). When we opened the PTE file, we were told the images (and music), described by their original paths, could not be found. (That was expected from past experiences working within one computer) We tried various ways of pointing to the new location for the images/music, but the only one route that did not seem to upset the existing transition timing was a one by one replacement of each image through the "show image" line on the main page of the PTE screen. The music from the new location had to be added before the old location could be removed. To say the least this was time consuming and frustrating. Question: - Did we miss the "proper" way to do this ? If not, it would nice if a future version could some how solve this issue. Currently when using OBJECTS and asking for an application to be run (and we are quite sure the same applies, using "Run application after last slide") it does not matter what the original path was to the 2nd .exe file, so long as the .exe file is in the same folder as the first .exe when presenting. I hope this note is somewhat clear. Thanks

Scooley: I think the lack of reponse unfortunately indicates that there is no solution for your problem. This issue of MACs comes up regularly and essentially it is a no-go.

Kevin: From Igor's notes I think you can do it within 4.30, but I have not tried it yet. I am sure someone has and will be along with the steps shortly. In the meantime, you could use your photo-editing software to do it and bring the rotated iimages into the PTE show. Jim

Igor: Hope you had a good weekend off, now let's see what we can keep you occupied with.... - Jimbo suggested random viewing of images - one small thing that I would like (if possible) is some signal sent wherever during the playing of the shows that would prevent the screen saver from coming on in the middle of a show. I realize that if one remembers they can go in and turn the screen saver off, but I don't always remember, and some neophytes don't know how... My screen saver is set to come on after 10 minutes and there are more and more shows out there that last more than 10 minutes (including some of my instructional/educational ones that last 20-25) (I suspect my show length will gather off topic comments on its own )

Igor: As I said before with the last version, and will say again after you play some more and produce 4.40..... Way to go !!! Thanks for all your hard work

Better late than never...... Igor, I have been rather pre-occupied with other things the past few months, but Alrobin mentioned that I should pop into the forum and take a look at the new beta. (I have not looked at it since 4.20 was issued) What can I say ?!?!?!?!?!?!? You are continuing to out do yourself, where will it all end ?? Congrats to you and your assistants, and to all the users for encouraging you to continue to take PTE to new heights.

Annie: Welcome to PTE ! I am not an expert on websites, but to my knowledge and memory of past discussions, the PTE show can be run from the website, but has to be downloaded. The resultant download file can NOT be run on a MAC as it is a .exe file

I am not sure I am following all this stuff re sizing images in this thread But If you are trying to size images to a fixed width for horizontal and fixed width for verticals and still keep the proportions, it can be done in PhotoShop actions. example: take all horizontals and make them 800 by whatever and all verticals whatever by 600 load a sample image in PS, create an action (the usual way) with the only step being "FIT IMAGE" (FILE>AUTOMATE>FIT IMAGE) and set it to CONSTRAIN WITH Width:800, Vertical:600. Then run the action. Is this what you are trying to do ?