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Hello everyone, тhe demo video was created using a template for a typewriter. If anyone is interested, I will post a draft of the template and give links to lessons. Paul

Hi There .I used a PTE style that gave a very good feeling of using an old typewriter it was on one of the members of PTE his name is DOM if he is still up and running perhaps he or someone would give you his address . Michael

Thank you for these explanations, what I would like is to have an old typewriter to type a text, and that I will surely not know how to do, or else it will take me a long time... Thanks anyway. Can we find that on a paid site?

The new Text Animation in Version 11 will allow you to simulate a typewriter style. Use the "Quick" option. https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/11.0/how_to_v11/add_text#text_animations Add your own Typewriter Font and sound clip from the Internet. Typewriter_Jun1-2023_10-17-10.zip DG

Search the forum: https://www.pteavstudio.com/forums/search/?q=Typewriter&quick=1 DG

Hello, where can I find a typewriter style...? Thank you for your answers I wish you a very nice day JMC

I'm looking for a way to simulate text being typed onto an image e.g. news report effect. I did a search on the forum to see whether anyone had come up with such a template and found there was some discussion several years ago but the links no longer work. Does anyone know if this was progressed into a workable solution? Regards Brian

Hi Igor! I really want to thank all your team for the quality work and for the opportunity to test the new version of the program! Today I tried the new features a bit and they made a big impression on me! 1. Text animation. This is what we have been waiting for a very long time and now it is implemented! I tried the functionality and it works! But there are a lot of custom settings and I haven't tried everything yet. Eyes darted. 2. Built-in vector icons. An interesting idea and I'm sure that it will be useful to many, besides text animation is applied to them. You can come up with interesting applications. 3. Blur. It's gorgeous! No words, thank you for these beautiful blur views! The settings work very well. 4. Nested opacity and color correction! Super! Much needed features. One of the most useful. Thank you for not disregarding the requests of those who like to make complex design! 5. Displacement map effect and lens. The displacement map effect works great, opens up new frontiers for creativity, I think you can make very beautiful abstract backgrounds, rain on glass, and so on. I also found the effect of the lens, it looks very natural and there are settings for the depth of the effect! 6. Export slides as images. Useful feature, thanks for the settings. Many use. 7. New styles and transitions for slides. Wonderful! very pretty and really needed. 8. Improved styles and themes window. Thank you! Using styles has become noticeably better and easier. 9. My special thanks for the preview sound in Convert/Trim Video Clip , as well as Adjust Time Range for the video clip object. This feature comes in handy for me almost every day and it was quite difficult to correctly cut the video to a certain phrase. Thank you developers! I have a lot of impressions, I have not studied everything thoroughly, but I already see that all the improvements and innovations are very useful. And in my case, all functionality worked without bugs. This is very nice for a beta version. Of course, I would like at least a few more very important functions. I would very much like to see in the program 1. Looping video. Without it, you have to change a lot of footage in other programs. 2. Improved chroma key. To have more settings in it. 3. Ability to copy and paste several keyframes at the same time. 4.Drag and drop layers with the mouse. Well, I would also very much like to be able to save styles with several text objects. And with sounds. In order not to manually substitute the sound of fireworks or a typewriter, for example ... And I would like to be able to save transitions with sound too. In any case, I thank the team of developers for the right approach, for the work! And congratulations on a successful beta release!

Hi Folks, I've decided to create a series of AVI tutorials which I call "PTE for Smarties". A very popular series of books for computer users called variously "Windows for Dummies", etc. were written to help beginners learn to use Windows and other software. Well, I don't think there are any "dummies" using PTE. The fact that you have chosen PTE already demonstrates your intelligence so I elected to call this series of beginning and intermediate tutorials "PTE for Smarties" !! I've created the first few of a continuing series on the elements of Pan, Zoom and Rotate. After all, the primary reason users want to use version 5 of PTE is for the Ken Burns effects of pan, zoom and rotate and this first AVI will jump-start your understanding. It's not intended to be a thorough and complete guide to PZR because later installments will get into esoteric uses of these functions, but this will get the beginner started and the continuing series will eventually make a PTE "expert" out of the beginner. I chose the AVI format rather than Flash or more compressed modes because it's compatible with nearly every PC without the need to load additional software or drivers. I will continue to add links to this post as time goes on. Necessarily AVI files are larger but hopefully will be worth your time. A note of caution for all who create PNG objects and expect their slideshows to be shown on computers which "MAY" have different resolution from the one you created the slideshow on. NEVER use "original size" for your objects unless your entire slideshow uses "original" size. In other words "DO NOT MIX" original and fit to slide objects in the same slideshow. Yes, it's "much" easier to properly position your png overlays when you are creating your slideshow and use the "original size" for your objects, BUT when the slideshow is played on computers with different screen resolutions these objects will "not" fit properly and not properly overlay the original portion of the screen which it is designed to mask. So, remember to never mix "original" and "fit to slide" or "cover slide" in your objects. Keep them consistent. Note: if for any reason you can't see the video it could be that your system doesn't have the necessary video codec. I used Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2. If you don't have this one you can download it from here thanks to Ken Cox http://www.divx-dige...mpeg4codec.html If this doesn't work for you I suggest using the Freeware VLC Media Player which should solve any problems. Here's the link for it: http://www.download....4-10267151.html Index to Tutorials 1. PZR for Smarties: 2. Intermediate Rotate: 3. Esoteric (advanced) Rotate: 4. Uber Rotation Possibilities: 5. Basics of Non-Linear Motion. 6. Basics of Superzoom 7. Basics of Hyperlink 8. Basic Map Route Creation 9. Button Normal, Hover, Pressed 10. Xara Xtreme 4 Photo Frame Extrusion and Reflection 11. Sound and PTE (2 AVI Tutorials) 12. Waterfall Simulation Tutorial with PNG file to simulate falling water 13. PDF Masking Tutorial 14. Creating the Panos Watch with PTE Animation 15. Basic Text Tutorial 16. 3D Transform Demo and Tutorial 17. 3D "Z" Position Demo and Tutorial 18. 3D Cube Creation and Rotation 19. Christmas Snow Cube Tutorial with Template 20. PhotoScape Crop Tool Tutorial 21. Photoscape Splitter and Combine Tool Tutorial 22. Animate any image with snow in under 60 seconds! 22 (a) Snow template 23. Snow Build Up Over Time Tutorials and Components 24. New Animation Feature in 6.5 25. Audio Envelope 26. A Complete Set of PTE Tutorials in Microsoft MSI format 27. How to Fade and Resume Slideshow Sound with Video Clip Inserted in Middle of Show 28. How to Use Text As A Mask - See Video Or Still Images Within Text 29. How to use a Mask to place text on a background rectangle for easier viewing in some circumstances 30. How to Popup Text when clicking an Object or Area in PicturesToExe 31. How to Popup a Slide when clicking a Slide or Area on A Slide Then Return to Original Image by Pressing ESC 32, Creating and Framing the Transparent Cube - With Cube Template and Transparent Sides 33. How to Move an Object in an Elliptical Orbit and Cause The Object To Pass In Front and Behind Another Object 34. Cube Template and tutorials. How to use your cube sides with template - how to control motion of cube 35. Building a House With PicuresToExe - Improving your Carpentry Skills 36. Marcel's spiral rotate - zoom effect tutorial 37. Wire Frame Object Creation Tutorial 38. Building The Video Wall in PTE 39. Using and Modifying The 8x6 Video Wall Grid 40. Building The Video Room From Your Video Wall 41. Download Gridwork Components To Go With Above Tutorials 42. Using SqirlzReflect With Photoshop and PTE to Create Water Effects 43. Using Masking to Attenuate and Control Water Effects With PTE 44. Controlling Animated Gif Effects With PTE 45. Download Link for SqirlzWaterReflection Freeware 46. Expanding Audio Waveform and Audio Timelline 47. Adding Water Ripple To Complex Image Procedure (an overview) 48. Using Avidemux Version 2.5.6 to Extract Sequential JPG Frames From Video 49. Using Photoshop To Create PNG Objects With Transparent Backgrounds 50. Creating Realistic Animated GIF's From Sequential PNG Objects Extracted From Video 51. Remove and manage sharpening halos in your photos with Photoshop 52. Styles - how to import and apply a style 53. Rain/Lightning Style Tutorial - How To Use Lin's Rain and Lightning Strike Style 54. Waterfall Animation Tutorial With PNG File For Falling Water 55. Text Circling Rotating Planet - Tutorial and Template - For PTE 9.0 56. Text Circling Rotating Planet - Tutorial and Template 2 - Show front AND back of text. 57 Puzzle Tutorial 1. - How To Use The PanosFX Action With Photoshop To Output PNG Puzzle Pieces 58. Puzzle Tutorial 2. - How To Create Puzzle Animation With PicturesToExe With PNG Puzzle Pieces 59. Snowglobe Styles Tutorial 60. Increasing Realism In Your Snowglobe (tutorial) 61. Creating An Out Of Bounds Photo With PTE and Photoshop 62. Using Text as a Mask With PTE 9 63. Converting Images To 3D Anaglyph With Photoshop 64. Setting Project Text Defaults In PTE 9 65. Cube Style Tutorial 66. Video For Background Tutorial 67. Cube Style Tutorial (PTE experimental cube) 68. Using Jean-Cyprien's SapinBabel Cube Style For Other Than Christmas Purposes 69. Curling, Flaming Text Style Tutorial... 70. Typewriter Simulation Software By David Fitzpatrick Tutorial 71. Painting With VisiSketch Pro and PTE 72. How To Make A Video Signature With PTE and CaptionsAlive Pro 73. How To Use CaptionsAlive Pro To Output Uncompressed Signature Files 74. Jean Cyprien's PTE Book Style Modified and Tutorial 75. Rotate Image Inside Frame (without using frame feature) 76. Introduction To Masking In PTE AV Studio 10 Pro This index will be continually updated as new AVI tutorials are added. Most tutorials are followed with downloadable examples. 1. PZR for Smarties: Pan/Zoom/Rotate Link (about 64 meg) 2. Intermediate Rotate: Intermediate Rotate Link (about 38 meg) 3. Esoteric (advanced) Rotate: Esoteric Rotate Link (about 37 meg) Demo of esoteric rotation: Demo Esoteric Rotation Link (about 8 meg) 4. Uber Rotation Possibilities: Uber Rotation Possibilities Link (about 38 meg) Demo of Uber Rotate with Helicopter Demo Uber Rotate Link (about 8 meg) Note: the above is an older AVI I made in response to Jean Pierre's (JPD) suggestion on how to rotate a helicopter rotor blade horizontally for a simulation which one of our forum members was creating. JPD explained it but being a French native speaker some were not completely clear so I created a brief tutorial to show his method which works very well. When you see the AVI remember that the rectangles will be made invisible via the 100% control of opacity. In the demo animation I created you can see how this works in practice. 5. Basics of Non-Linear Motion (how to set non-linear motion - about 44 meg) Basics of Non-Linear Motion Link Demo of Non-Linear Motion (less than 1 meg zipped executable) Note: press ESC to end show... Demo of Non-Linear Motion Link 6. Basics of Superzoom (how to effect smooth continuing zoom between images - about 60 meg) Basics of Superzoom Link Demo of Superzoom technique (about 37 meg zipped executable) This demo shows a zoom from about 28mm to 2000mm focal length using multiple frames with multiple lenses. Notice the original "prowler" size image inserted inside the "O" of the word Prowler at the end. Demo of Superzoom Link 7. Basics of Hyperlink (about 74 meg) This tutorial shows you how to first create and save a small PNG file consisting of a red rectangle with a transparent center using PixBuilder or Photoshop, etc., then how to use it in a PTE show to hyperlink to different detail images from eacMy linkh place the rectangle is placed, The demo zipped executable following shows the completed PTE file. Basics of Hyperlink Link Demo of Hyperlink: (about 6 meg) Demo of Hyperlink Link 8. Basic Map Route Creation (about 69 meg) Basic Map Route Creation Link Example file: (about 8 meg) Example of Map Route Creation Link 9. Link Below to Buttons Tutorial Buttons: Normal - Hover - Pressed Link Below to Zipped AVI for download: Click Here to Download (about 10 meg) 10. Link Below to Xara Xtreme 4 3D Frame Template and AVI Tutorial Template Link Click Here Xara Reflection Frame Template Use Demo AVI 11. Links Below to Sound Tutorials (about 45 Download Each) Sound AVI Tutorial Link One Sound AVI Tutorial Link Two 12. Link Below to Waterfall Animation Tutorial (about 69 meg) Also contains PNG file you can use to simulate falling water.... Link to Waterfall Simulation Tutorial - Click Here 13. Link to Mask Tutorial PDF (this will be updated when I better understand all areas of masking) http://www.learntoma...asktutorial.zip 14. Links to Watch Tutorials and Files which will allow the PTE user to Animate the Panos Photoshop Watch Link (AVI Tutorial) Link (PTE Template) http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/panoswatch.zip Link (PDF Tutorial) Link (example of different watch faces and ways to use in PTE) 15. Basic Text Tutorial: http://www.learntoma...exttutorial.zip 16. 3D Transform Demo and Tutorial: http://www.learntoma...3Dtrandform.zip 17. 3D "Z" Position Demo and Tutorial http://www.learntoma...3dzposition.zip 18. 3D Cube Creation and Rotation http://www.learntoma...ubecreation.zip 3D Tutorial PTE File http://www.learntoma...rialptefile.zip 19. 3D Christmas Snow Cube AVI Tutorial and Template http://www.learntoma...avitutorial.zip http://www.learntoma...ptetemplate.zip 20. Photoscape Crop Tool Tutorial PhotoScape Crop tool tutorial link 21. Photoscape Splitter and Combine Tool Tutorial Photoscape Splitter & Combine Tool Tutorial Link 22. Animate Any Image With Snow In 60 Seconds or Less Tutorial: Link to Snow Animation Tutorial 22. (a) Snow Template Link to Snow Template 23. Snow Buildup Over Time Tutorials - Suggested for Intermediate/Advanced Users of Photoshop: Link to Part One of Two (about 110 meg download) Link to Part Two of Two (about 90 meg download) Link to Snowglobe Components For Snow Buildup 24. New Animation Feature In 6.5 Link to AVI Tutorial on New Animation Feature in 6.5(about 17 meg) 25. Audio Envelope in PTE 6.5 Beta 10 Link to Audio Envelope Tutorial Note - At beginning I discuss 3 seconds when I'm actually talking about 30 seconds. Age related - LOL 26. Formerly for sale - now free - Complete set of PTE tutorials in one Microsoft.msi format (about 360 meg download) Complete Set - Not Same As Above - of PTE Tutorials 27. How to Fade and Resume Slideshow Sound with Video Clip Inserted in Middle of Show Link To Sound End and Resume With Video Clip Between 28. How to Use Text As A Mask - Display Still Image Or Video Within Text Tutorial in MacIntosh Native Exe Format Tutorial in 'Windows PC Zipped Exe Format 29. How to use a Mask to place text on a rectangular background for easy viewing or simultaneous fade (70 meg Zipped AVI) (alternative is to just use the "button feature - works perfectly)..... Using a Mask to help create text on a background for easier viewing and simultanous fade capabilities 30. How to Popup text when clicking on an area or object in PicturesToExe Popup Text Tutorial Link (30 meg Zipped AVI) 31. How to Use the Window Feature To Popup a Slide then Return to Original Slide by Pressing ESC Slide to Image to Slide Link 32. How to Create and Frame the Transparent Cube Link To Transparent Cube Tutorial Link To Transparent Cube Template 33. How To Move an Object in an Elliptical Orbit and Make the Object Pass both In Front of and Behind Another Object Create Elliptical Orbit Tutorial Link Elliptical Orbit Demo After JPD's Model Link (very small - about half meg visual explanation) 34. Cube Template: Tutorial 1 - How to Change sides to your own images (jpg, bmp, png, animated gif or video) Tutorial 2 - How to control the rotation and size of your animated cube Link to Lin's Cube Template Link to tutorial on replacing cube template sides with your own images or video Link to tutorial on controlling size and motion of your animated cube made with the cube template 35. Building a House With PTE - Component Construction Building A House With PTE Link 36. Spiral Rotate Zoom effect as provided by Marcel from the French PTE Forum Link for Windows PC in PTE EXE format Link in MacIntosh Native EXE Format Link to Zipped AVI Tutorial (preferred - much smoother) About 113 meg zipped file 37. Wire Frame Object Creation Tutorial Link to Wire Frame Tutorial (about 70 meg download zipped AVI) 38. Building The Video Wall With PicturesToExe 39. Using and Modifying The 8x6 Video Wall Grid (Click link to the left to see tutorial in YouTube} 40. Building The Video Room From Your Video Wall 41. Gridwork Components To Build Video Wall - Zipped File Link To Zipped Grids 42. Using SqirlzReflect With Photoshop and PTE to Create Water Effects Link to Water Effects Tutorial 43. Using Masking to Attenuate and Control Water Effects With PTE Link to Water Effects Tutorial On Controlling Ripple Effect 44. Controlling Animated Gif Effects With PTE Link To Brief Animated Gif Tutorial 45. Download Link For Freeware SqirlzWaterReflection Software Download SquirlWaterReflection Here: 46. Download Link For Expanding Audio Waveform and Audio Timeline Tutorial Link To Expanding Audio Waveform and Expanding Audio Timeline 47. Download Link to Create Water Ripple in Complex Image: An Overview http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/ripplewatercompleximage.zip 48. Link to Avidemux Tutorial For Extracting Sequences of JPG Frames From Video http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/Avidemuxtutorial.zip Link To Zipped Archive of Avidemux Version 2.5.6 For Windows http://www.lin-evans.org/avidemux/avidemux.zip 49. Link to Tutorial On Creating PNG Objects With Transparent Backgrounds in Photoshop http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/creatingpngtransparency.zip 50. Link to Tutorial On Creating Animated GIF's From Sequential PNG Files With Photoshop This Zipped Archive Includes 22 PNG Objects With Transparent Backgrounds, The Tutorial and a Zipped PTE Demo Using The PNG Objects And Also An Important Information Text File http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/animatedgif.zip 51. Link to Tutorial on Removing and minimizing Sharpening Halos from your images with Photoshop http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorials/haloremovewithphotoshop.zip 52. Link To Video Tutorial On How To Import and Load a Style http://www.lin-evans.org/styles/stylestutorial.zip 53. Link To Video Tutorial On Using Lin's Rain and Lightning Style - How To Increase Rain and Move Lightning http://www.lin-evans.org/styles/rainlightningtutorial.zip 54. Link To Waterfall Animation Tutorial With PNG File To Use For Falling Water http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/fallingwateranimation.zip 55. Tutorial and Template To Create Circular Text Circling Jupiter http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/experimentalforcirclingtext.zip (Zipped PTE Template - about 2 meg) http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/circulartexttutor.zip (about 50 meg) 56. Tutorial and Template To Create Circular Text Circling Jupiter, Other Planets Or Odd Shaped Objects http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/backandfronttext.zip (tutorial) about 12 meg http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/circleletterstemplate2.zip (template) about 15 meg 57. Tutorial On Using PanosFX Puzzle Animation To Create PNG Puzzle Pieces To Use With PTE http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/puzzletutorial1.zip (tutorial) about 34 meg zipped wmf video 58. Tutorial On Using PNG Puzzle Pieces From The PanosFX Action To Create Puzzle Animation http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/puzzletutorial2.zip (tutorial) about 41 meg zipped wmf video 59. Tutorial on using my SnowGlobe Styles http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/snowglobetutorials.zip (tutorial - about 78 meg zipped video) http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/snowglobestyles.zip (zipped snowglobe styles) 60. Tutorial on Increasing Realism In Your Snow Globe http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/SGRealism.zip (zipped video tutorial - about 35 meg) 61. Creating An Out Of Bounds Photo Using PTE and Photoshop (two zipped video tutorials) http://www.lin-evans.org/Robert/makingrosieoutofbounds.zip 62. How To Use PTE 9 Text As A Mask http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/PTEtextasmask.zip (about 12 Meg zipped video tutorial) 63. Converting Your Images To Anaglyph 3D Using Photoshop - (about 17 Meg zipped video tutorial) http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/photoshop3d.zip 64. Setting Text Font and Attributes Defaults For Your Project In PTE 9 (about 12 meg zipped video) http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/commentstext.zip 65. Cube Style Tutorial - Explanation On How To Adjust Position and Size of Video or Image on Cube Face (37 meg) http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/CubeStyleExplanation.zip 66. Using A Video For A PicturesToExe Background Tutorial 67. Experimental Cube Style Tutorial 68. How To Use Jean-Cypriens SapinBabel Cube Style For Other Than Christmas Tutorial https://youtu.be/kfJcU1OkCEA Click on link to the left to see tutorial on YouTube.... 69. Curling Flaming Text Style Tutorial 70. Typewriter Simulation Program Tutorial (David Fitzpatrick's Typewriter 2) 71. Painting With VisiSketch Pro and PicturesToExe Using VisiSketch Pro with PIcturesToExeTutorial.rtf 72. Using CaptionsAlive Pro Converted Files With PTE For a Signature Applied To Any Image 73. Using CaptionsAlivePro To Export Uncompressed AVI File and How To Compress Then For Use in PTE 74. Jean Cyprien's PTE Book Style Modified - Tutorial and Explanation 75. Rotate Image Inside PNG Frame (without using Frame feature) 76. Introduction To Masking With PTE AV Studio 10 Pro Essentials of Masking Tutorial - Download above for your own computer here: http://www.lin-evans.org/tutorial/MaskTutorial.zip

Yesterday I recorded a lesson on the light version of the Typewriter 3 template. In the archive there is a link to the template project. In the video on YouTube, you can enable the translation of subtitles into your language. Paul Typewriter 3 (Template)_eng.zip

I am also curious if you will be re-visiting and updating some of your older templates, like the Handwriting with fountain pen, typewriter, and the Travel one that used a calendar.? Thanks, Kieron

O.K. - this is my sample of easel paint demonstrations. This demonstrates a range of possibilities with PicturesToExe and David Fitzpatrick's VisiSketch Pro and the ending using David's Typewriter program. It's long - 29 minutes and six second to be exact but the viewer can use the navigation bar to move through if looking at something they have already seen. Take note - there is one show with tasteful nudity so if one doesn't like that, no need to look. Among the shows are some PTE effects, transition from the painting to video done by using a frame from the video as the painted image, etc. It's just samples of things some might like to do. For Tomcatred who mentioned earlier in a post that the painting isn't done as an artist would - I'm well aware of that. My late girlfriend of seven years, Lisah, was a superb artist with the brush and I've watched her paint many beautiful oil and acrylic works so I'm very familiar with how its done, but there are limitations with the software which make that type approach of laying down one color then going back and adding others and gradual detail simply not feasible so the way it's done is essentially what is possible with these programs. To do it as an artist would in real life would probably take a week to create a single example. Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7lU_npiD8

It doesn't have to be that much work. Send me a private message and I'll show you how to do it easily (typewriter simulation) without you needing to spend excess time. By the way, it's not necessary to reduce jpg "quality," just compression levels and perhaps the size of the original images. There is no advantage at all in using larger images in pixel dimensions that the device resolution they will be used on. Actually, using anything larger than 1920x1080 is rarely needed unless there is a deep zoom into part of the image. A DVD will easily hold up to 4.7 gigabytes so not a problem but if you take an exe which is close to exceeding the 32 bit limit and make it into a video, the size might be way larger than will work. My suggestion would be to use a batch re-sizing tool such as Irfanview or Fastone to resize the jpgs to the minimum necessary for the same quality. Use jpg compression of 6 or 7 and it should not affect the quality at all but will greatly diminish the exe size if you are using output directly from a modern digital camera. Lin

Thank you all for your suggestions; have been out of circulation with flu etc. Plenty of ideas that I can work through. I was asked to put together an AV illustrating the preparation in producing an AM DRAM production of 'Oh What A Lovely War'. Behind the scenes photos, rehearsal etc.etc. for club records and the cast. The production had screens that popped up during the performance with news headlines e.g. '1st July - Battle of the Somme - The British lose 60,000 men on Day 1'. I have created slides with text showing the news clips interspersed between the images of the dress rehearsal. I thought that a typewriter effect producing the text might look good but possibly too much work for what is required. Incidentally, I have around 300 images (the cast wanted as many as possible) and 7 music tracks. Total length of sequence is 24 mins and the Exe file is 2.84GB. I'm amazed that it seems to run very well on my computer but I might have to go back and reduce the JPEG quality. I'm not sure what media they want the EXE file on. Possibly a DVD, would this be a problem given the file size?

Hi harbrimar Search in the forum "typewriter" , there are many threads around this theme. MUR

Granot, when you originally created your Typewriter program, I wasn't creative enough to see a use for it. But your mention of it today gave me an idea how I might use it in a PTE presentation I have been contemplating since September! To test my idea, I created the typewriter.exe file and ran it from a PTE "customized" slide as an external application. The typing box pops up and displays the typing of the text while several of my slides are playing. The typing box of course blocks that portion of my slides as they play. I can use it that way, while it is typing. But how do I close the box when it is done so that the rest of the show can be seen? Also, is the type speed dependent on the PC speed? And, how tough to put "speed" configuration as you do with color, font, alignment, etc.?

Hi Jean-Cyprien Thanks for that useful work. It opens so many possibilities. This can be used in short texts MUR Typewriter.zip

Two examples of using the Shift modifier that saves A LOT of time - to write with an old typewriter - to scroll the date MACHINE_English_Aug4-2018_20-37-44.zip

Hi Tom, I did that and it didn't change anything. My XP system is my favorite. I have computers with XP, Win 7 Pro, Win 8 and Win 8.1 and XP is by far my favorite because there is still the ability to get to the meat and potatoes of the system. Like you I began with CP/M and CP/M 86 with Kaypro and Osborn. At the University where I taught I also used Apple II with Apple DOS 3.3. When I left the university to open my software development company I was working with an 8088 which I built myself from components from Taiwan with DOS and over the years progressively went through all the Windows operating systems except Vista which I skipped. I have also refused to install Win 10 on anything and if I ever put another system together, it won't have Win 10 - there have just been way too many issues with compatibility for me there. I realize that everyone has pretty much abandoned Win XP because the newer systems can support much more. I will be really happy with PTE supports 64 bit but of course it's a challenge then to have backward compatibility. Technology moves at such a rapid rate today, a system is technically obsolete long before it's functionally obsolete. Every once in a while I still get out my old Kaypro 4/84 and play with it. Back in those days I also had a dedicated word processor made by Systel. I used to make some pretty good bucks creating dBASE II, VisiCalc and other discs for other owners of Systel systems who didn't realize that their dedicated word processors were actually good little CMP computers which lacked only properly formatted discs to give them the same features available on the "real" CPM computers. I still have the Systel system which was a gift to me when I was still in college from my mother who sold them where she worked. I think the Systel was over $5200 back in the early 80's. It used an electric Olympus typewriter as the keyboard which also served as the printer. Things have sure changed over the years... LOL Best regards, Lin

Typewriter.mp3 DG

Just posted a new show to Beechbrook: entitled "9 to 5". It's not photographic, but more of a cartoon, based on a Power Point I saw some time ago. The introduction uses "The Dom's" typewriter template. I hope you enjoy it!

Hi Roger, Very cute! Love the sound effects and the voice-over's were spot on! The use of the typewriter intro was perfect. Now I'm wonder just how much the ant received for his/her payout? LOL. Thanks for a jolly good show! Lin

Hi Dom You invited some comments - here are mine! I like the idea of the typewriter simulation, and I personally like the modern version better than the original one. I also confirm the same error that you got. I feel that the simulation of typing is far too fast, and would be more realistic if slowed down. Regards, wideangle

I can confirm this error - I get the same message on your excellent typewriter animation download.

Eric, Step 1 and 2 are wrong, or I've misunderstood you! Somewhere on your machine you should still have the zip file that you downloaded from the WnSoft website in order to get the v5.52 software. You would then have used that zip file to install your copy of PTE v5.52. What you now need to copy to your memory stick at Step 1/Step 2 is that zip file - NOT the installed software files from C:\Program Files\WnSoft Pictures To Exe\. Unfortunately I have no way of knowing where you might have hidden the zip file on your system. If you cannot find the zip file, the simple solution is to download a fresh copy of it from the WnSoft website (www.wnsoft.com) and save that copy onto your memory stick. After that you seem to have the right idea. I know what it is like to try and teach "elder statesmen" about computers. I'm a tutor at a "Computing for Beginners" course in my village. Our oldest student is a gent of 83 years of age who has never used a computer or a typewriter in his life. It's a big challenge - but I'm enjoying it. More to the point - so is he! regards, Peter