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RayPertierra

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I am new to the forum so forgive me if I am missing the obvious. I am trying to make text on a slide that was produced in PS into a button. When I use the Object Editor to create a buttom around the text I cannot seem to avoid having a white border around the button. Any ideas on how to make the border transparent? The goal is to make the text a roll over button with no border around it.

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Ray,

Welcome to the Forum!

One way to do this is to create a transparent GIF in your object editor and use this as a "button" in the object editor.

Another way to create a button without a border is to overlay a transparent GIF over a "text" object in the Object Editor.

Unfortunately, the "button" object in PTE always has a border.

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Fairly similar to Al, I have on file a selection of solid rectangles prepared in Photoshop, which I call "Invisibles", and saved in *.jpg format. One such "Invisible- Long Narrow" has a pixel size of 501x33 for use on a 1024x768 titled programme image.

With the Object Editor opened for the Titled Programme click the Picture button fourth in top left and browse and select your 'Invisible'. Drag this over your selected text and right click. Select Properties and from the drop down menu check "Transparent Background", in Action on Mouse Click open it up by clicking the down arrow and select the action you require. In my case this would be "Run application or open file" and I would enter the programme name relative to the selected text. Click OK.

I have to thank Ian Bateman and Keith Biggs who helped me with this method a couple or more years ago and it has served me well ever since. The method can be applied equally to thumbnail images or parts of images and I placed a non working example on the Beechbrook site under the title IntroDemo.

I always use this method with my shows and will be using it on the 28th of this month when projecting the entries for the Federation of South London Photographic Societies AV Competition.

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Now all that is needed is for me to redo my slides in PS and take out the text I was going to use for the buttons.

Ray,

You can leave the text in if you like, and just position a transparent GIF over it in Object Editor to make it programmable.

One caution with using either method, though. Objects in PTE are not scalable in that if you view the completed show in a different resolution they will move around relative to the images in the show. It's OK if you plan to do all the viewing on your own favourite pc or laptop, but if you want to distribute your show the viewers may not be able to view things in the proper orientation. According to Igor, this problem will be fixed in the next version of PTE (5.0). Best of luck! :)

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Fairly similar to Al, I have on file a selection of solid rectangles prepared in Photoshop, which I call "Invisibles", and saved in *.jpg format. One such "Invisible- Long Narrow" has a pixel size of 501x33 for use on a 1024x768 titled programme image.

With the Object Editor opened for the Titled Programme click the Picture button fourth in top left and browse and select your 'Invisible'. Drag this over your selected text and right click. Select Properties and from the drop down menu check "Transparent Background", in Action on Mouse Click open it up by clicking the down arrow and select the action you require. In my case this would be "Run application or open file" and I would enter the programme name relative to the selected text. Click OK.

I have to thank Ian Bateman and Keith Biggs who helped me with this method a couple or more years ago and it has served me well ever since. The method can be applied equally to thumbnail images or parts of images and I placed a non working example on the Beechbrook site under the title IntroDemo.

I always use this method with my shows and will be using it on the 28th of this month when projecting the entries for the Federation of South London Photographic Societies AV Competition.

"Ron: Are you saying to create rectangles in PS that have a fill color in them and when you import them into P2E and select the 'transparent' background that this will give me the effect I am looking for?

Thanks for taking the time to point this out, Ray"

Ray,

You can leave the text in if you like, and just position a transparent GIF over it in Object Editor to make it programmable.

One caution with using either method, though. Objects in PTE are not scalable in that if you view the completed show in a different resolution they will move around relative to the images in the show. It's OK if you plan to do all the viewing on your own favourite pc or laptop, but if you want to distribute your show the viewers may not be able to view things in the proper orientation. According to Igor, this problem will be fixed in the next version of PTE (5.0). Best of luck! :)

Al: Thanks for the scalability tip. I hadn't thought of that. My rescreen resoluiton is 1280 not 1024 so I better switch for the greatest audience. Fortunately, there are not as many 800x600 screens around here anymore. Thanks again, Ray

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Ray

That is exeactly what I am saying. I usually use solid yellow for my 'invisibles'. When first used in Object Editor they blot out the text or image which they cover. On completion of action in Object Editor they are transluscent and finally when out of Object Editor they are invisible.

I spoke of their various uses. I scanned in an image of a page from the brochure of a coach tour. I created a square invisible 100x100 pixels and used it to cover individual days of the itinerary. That way I was able to call up a sequence covering a particular day.

Ron [uK]

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