My First Slide Show--exe file size

[joe smith]

I just compelted my first slide show. It consists of 44 JPEG images, no music, some titles. The exe file is 15.6 MB in size. The pte file is 17KB in size. Are these file sizes about right?

How do you suggest I distribute the exe file? Email or put it on a CD-Rom and mail it? Joe Smith

[Ken Cox]

too big for most mailers

put it on cd as an exe

advise people to copy and paste the exe to their desktop to run it -- quite a few systems will not run it from the cd

search forum for mail problems

and running from cd

ken

[thedom]

Hi joetexan,

Your files sizes are perfectly right, pte files are tiny.

That's the exe file which contains all your images, that's why it's big. If you want to reduce your EXE file, you can reduce the size of your images but if you reduce them too much, you gonna have a loss of quality of course.

If you don't zoom on a picture, a 1024x768 size is enough.

If you have an adsl connection, you can upload your file on beechbrook :

http://www.beechbrook.com/upload/

and then send an email to people with the link to your show.

[thedom]

I'm quite sure you will be interested in reading this thread called "How do I email a pics to exe show?"

[joe smith]

That upload feature in beechbrook looks interesting. I think I will try it. I noticed I have to make a slide that is 120 pixels x 80 pixels. Is it the first slide in the presentation? Or just a separate image slide? Joe Smith

[ronwil]

Just a separate image Joe. Some use the title slide resized as required. Take a look at the thumbnails of the downloadable sequences on the Beechbrook site and you will get the idea. Looking forward to seeing your first upload. Good luck

Ron [uK]