image resizing

[jeronimo]

hello -

this is a corrected version of a former post, which probably got misunderstood:

I think many of us are resizing their images before putting picture shows together with P2E, with all the "organizational overhead" that comes with it: batch conversion of the puctures, storing them in a separate directory and keeping them as well as the originals as long as you might want to come back and change the pte show.

Is there any intention to include picture resizing into P2E - it would just make a great program even better!

thanks much for any input -

[Conflow]

hello -

this is a corrected version of a former post, which probably got misunderstood:

I think many of us are resizing their images before putting picture shows together with P2E, with all the "organizational overhead" that comes with it: batch conversion of the puctures, storing them in a separate directory and keeping them as well as the originals as long as you might want to come back and change the pte show.

Is there any intention to include picture resizing into P2E - it would just make a great program even better!

thanks much for any input -

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Jeronimo,

Although a very good idea and you did mentioned "organizational overhead" well that idea would at least

double the "overhead" when one appreciates that a simple "Jpeg Cropper" (I did say Jpeg only) is

anything from 1mB~4mB in size. And again when one considers all the Input Image Formats and the

chosen Output Formats one quickly realises that the "overhead" is getting out of control compared to the

origional PTE File Size of approx:1.4mB. Then the problem of intergrating the Crop-Exe. with the PTE.Exe

opens a "pandora's box" of design problems !!!

Better by far to download a good Image Editor and get the best of both Worlds...

Brian.Conflow.

[Igor]

This feature in my plans. I'm thinking for a long time how to better realize this function. Currently I didn't find suitable variant.

[jeronimo]

hi Brian,

thanks for explaining.

As I don't know the concept of the software, I risk being ridiculous with my reply, but here it goes anyways:

I was not suggesting to integrate an image cropper (or jpeg only cropper), but to include a functionality that would allow the user to specify a screen resolution (or max width and max height, to optimally treat portrait and landscape) for which the .exe or .scr should be created.

The moment you create the .exe file, the image data are probably available to the pte program in some kind of generic form (i.e. they have already been transformed from their original .jpg .bmp etc format). If pte would allow to reduce the resolution at which the images are stored "inside the slide_show.exe file", that would be independent of file format. It would be a big help since it would allow the user to get rid of all these lower resolution copies of the project images that are kept just in case you want to come back and change the slide show. Huge gain in .exe file size, obviously...

Does this make sense?

regards,

Harry

[Ken Cox]

WITH 4.48

you can resize the composition from within the program

in the old days we did that regularly

for starters spend some time here

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...;f=4&t=1350

ken

[Kalain]

hello -

this is a corrected version of a former post, which probably got misunderstood:

I think many of us are resizing their images before putting picture shows together with P2E, with all the "organizational overhead" that comes with it: batch conversion of the puctures, storing them in a separate directory and keeping them as well as the originals as long as you might want to come back and change the pte show.

Is there any intention to include picture resizing into P2E - it would just make a great program even better!

thanks much for any input -

You can already resize pictures under PTE.

if you are under XP, install freeware "resize picture" from Microsoft Powertoys, so under PTE when you are browsing for pictures, instead to add a 6M/8M/10M pixel image, just right clic on image and select "Explorer" and select "Resize Pictures" and choose the final format 1024,1280, or custom size before to add it in your slide show.

Alain