michel_r

Understand now what you meant by template. Thanks Xaver regards, michel

I have been looking at the template option in the doc and found i could save projects as templates to be used later. So i saved a "template project" with one slide (which would be upscaled using 100% size / original mode that you provided earlier). But i could not find including in the doc a way to apply this template to all new slides in the show or to slides in the existing show. Am i missing something here? thnax, michel

Thanks again Xaver, it works. However is there a way for me to tell to PTE that this is standard behaviour for all slides (in my case i make a simple slideshow from numerous pictures with a centered picture and its caption (extracted from IPTC data) at the bottom. Having to manually reset to 100% of the original slide for each slide is very painful for a very simple slideshow. regards, michel

Hi Xaver, I am not familiar at all with V6 (the highest level i upgraded to was PTE 5.52 which i guess explains why i suddenly discover this "do not upscale" capibility is not available anymore). I have played a little bit with V6 and the USer guide PDF but could not find the size/position tool that you mention. Where can i find this tool (that i assume would be a tool to apply to each slide?) thanks, michel

Hi Xaver, This option seems to just limit the total size of what PTE will display on screen. (as a windowed mode would - this option actually disappears in windowed mode) It has not, whether activated or not, changed the resizing. The funny thing is that, if i create a slideshow with PTE 5, witha rpoject option of not resizing images and if i open this project with Pte 6? then the images in the slides created with PTE 5 do not upscale but any new one i add is resied (upscaled).... regards, michel

All the time I have been using PTE, i always use the disable scaling option (and i export my pictures from lightroom at the size - pixels - i want to see them onscreen, in order to make sure i do not get any upscaling with a loss of quality. I have been looking at V6 to migrate to but i cannot find this option anymore in the Project Options / Screen panel. Was it moved to some other place or has it disappeared on purpose? If so, how can i make sure my pictures do not get upscaled? Thank you, michel

Thank you very much to both of you. I do not have an access this evening to my computer but will definitely try your recommendations tomorrow or during the week-end at the latest. However Dave, I do not recall that i can fix the size of the slides (i believe i run PTE 5.5). I recall fixing fullscreen or windowed mode and then aspect ratio such as 5:4 or 16:9. A m i missing something here? Also what is O&A? Thanks , michel

Thanks a lot Peter. I am actually using Full screen today and i understand your recommendation of sizing to the possible max scale. However, if PTE will try to fit as much, this means i have no chance to have the comment below the picture not inside the displayed picture then? regards, michel

I would like to build slide shows that will display the same on a 5:4 or 16:9 PC screen. I build very simple slideshows where i export the images i want form lightroom (within a say 1000 x 1000 boundary) and then quickly build a slideshow wher i would like to display the images with no resizing (or only downsizing but never upsizing) and the caption of the image under the image at the bottom. However, and depending on which computer i did build the slideshow on, and at that time taking the screen ratio of the computer, it will display fine on the initial computer but badly (such as caption on top of image or image truncated). I was not able to well understand the explanation of the help file. I by the way do not recall having this type of problem with version 4 i had been presently using and assume i am missing something fairly simple here. Thanks for help. regards, michel

Thank you for your answers. I was unaware of the EXIF comment field. I use Lightroom to select the pictures that i want to keep, to which i will add some information in the title & comment field. In the end, i export the picture i want to use with PTE. However, i am afraid that the field that is modified via lightroom is the IPTC field, which is i believe the more common way. Hence support evetually of some of the IPTC fields would be very nice. michel

I could not find the answer to the question searching in the forum I would like to automatically add to each picture of a slide show the IPTC caption field. I believe it cannot be done via the &caption or similar tokens one can find in other programs and that this is a capability which is due for a future release. Is there any workaround available? thank you for your help, michel