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Hello Peter, I think that file "Challenge v8.exe" was damaged or modified. Incorrect icon also points that file is damaged. The possible reason of damage can be a fault of hard drive or viruses.

ARM version of Windows 8 will support applications designed in the Metro style only. So we can't adapt PicturesToExe quickly.

I tested briefly PicturesToExe Deluxe with Windows 8 Consumer Preview which was released yesterday for everyone. No problems with PicturesToExe and created slideshows. P.S. Just my personal opinion. The new Metro user interface used in Windows 8 looks very strange on a desktop computer. No Start button anymore. Start menu was replaced by a new fullscreen Start page in a the new style of Metro UI. Primitivism, instead of beauty and simplicity.

I confirm this problem. We'll inform our web hoster.

Hello Laszlo, Many thanks for your translation of our User Manual to Hungarian language! Here some thoughts on the problems that you raised. I admire the quality of the French User Manual completely written by Jean-Charles! Regrettably I have no enough time (and skills of a technical writer) to write same English User manual. This was written by our employee. And I really want to rewrite it completely. Also I plan to provide the printed English User manual when it's done (in future). The problem in a fact that a writer should know PicturesToExe very well, has skills of technical writer and do it for every version. I contacted with specialized companies to order writing of the user manual. Their service is expensive, but the good result is not guaranteed because they can't know the our software program very well. I wouldn't want to get a formal description of features. P.S. I'm thinking on this problem right now and I'll glad to hear any advices and suggestions on this subject.

Our initial intention was to suggest a significant discount for organizations. Schools, colleges, commercial companies, and other organizations. It required one license key for all computers in this organization. And PicturesToExe was used only within PCs in this organization. I know that camera clubs also are organizations. But they mainly buy PicturesToExe for their members who use PicturesToExe on home computers. And one license key will be used on many different computers. And here we face with three problems for our company: 1. Members of camera clubs are our main customers. And suggesting such significant discount at 50%-80% for bulk sales we ruin our business in fact. Sorry to write this! 2. I think that each user of PicturesToExe should have individual license key. 3. If we ship separate license keys for bulk purchase (with great discount) we can create a second market of resellers who will make bulk purchases of PicturesToExe and sell separate license keys. We will compete with ourselves. So we changed our policy for discounts. And now we can offer only some personal discount (10-20%) for members of camera clubs if they want to purchase in bulk. Each copy comes with a separate license key. Please contact me for details. As I know this discount is typical for other competing software products in this area. P.S. Sorry for talking about these unpleasant things and with hope on your understanding.

Eric, You can adjust mipmapping option for the Text and Image objects in version 7.0. Choose an object, go to the Properties tab and adjust the "Sharper/smoother" parameter to solve text juddering for that particular case. I think setting "Sharper/smoother" to "0" will be enough.

Hello, There were problems with this discount. Also our competitors don't have similar offers. That discount was for organizations and companies only. A customer received one license key for all copies for his organization. Now we send separate license key for each copy. Please contact me, we can provide some personal discount for you.

Thanks for details and for your comment!

Thanks. It's a false positive. We'll inform developers of this antivirus. Please let me know your version of PicturesToExe.

Hello, I'm sorry about the problem with support tickets! But it should work without any problems. I just checked up - today I see same number support tickets from customers as yesterday. I placed a test ticket and entered captcha code to submit the ticket. It passed without any problem. Please try again: http://www.wnsoft.com/support/ Click "Submit a ticket" button. If it doesn't work, please attach a screenshot of the page with security code (captcha) and digits/symbols what you entered. I'll check up. Or please send me your request by personal message through the forum.

Please don't forget that it's a experimental feature (although reliable). We can change the parameters in the following version.

Xaver, Thank you for the executable files! On my PC with Windows 7 I see no difference between both versions. I agree with Peter: It possible with "Run application" command. The better variant is to use "Run slideshow on exit" instead of. I don't understand why it didn't work. Please check the correctness of file paths. The recommended solution is to put both parts into one folder (no any sub-folders) and point only filename in the "Run slideshow..." command: "Part2.exe". I have good news for the problem that you touched at the beginning. We plan to introduce the solution to group slides of slideshows. That's all I can say right now.

That was experimental feature. We plan finish this feature in version 7.5. P.S. Does anybody tried Ctrl+Shift+P for Image object? And again to see another effect

Hi Xaver , Please send me sample EXE files.

Peter, Thanks for raising the interesting problem! A Frame object can be used as a rectangle area to simulate a graphical button on an Image object. I remember that Lin Evans used this technique in his works. Can I suggest the following change. Frame (with zero opacity) will be automatically transparent for mouse clicks if it doesn't have assigned "Action" (in the Common tab). It should solve this logical issue.

Thanks, Tom! Really good idea. We can recover order ID by email automatically. Then customer can purchase the upgrade. In difficult cases a customer can contact us and we'll find his order ID manually.

Of course. It's a difficult task, but we keep our promises.

Jean-Charles, Peter, Thanks! But the ideal solution when an user who purchased the upgrade have deal only with one new license key. Two keys are complicating upgrades. I thought about the idea when a customer sends us the old license key by email as a confirmation of previous purchasing. It takes some time, it needs manual inspection or write online base of license keys to avoid multiple usage (plus security issues). I consider it as an alternate variant. If we have deal with short license key or order IDs I can easily organize simple and reliable upgrades. I load previous order IDs as a list of coupons. Each code is intended for 1 use only and customers receive the discount + universal license key. The purchasing of the upgrade is simple - order form has a special field for the old order ID.

Probably you remember that we vastly simplified license keys for new customers 4 months ago. The license key is short (25 symbols) and it arrives immediatelly after purchasing. No lost emails. Simple, fast and reliable. Now I'm trying simplify upgrades for existing customers and I need your advice. Currently a customer should use two license keys - old key and the new key. If a customer already have a previous activated version he simply need to load only the new key. If he installs PicturesToExe on a new PC, the customer must enter the old key and then load the new key. That's a bit complicated. There is a good solution - ask old license key on the order form before purchasing. And customer receives a new universal license key. No need to use two keys. Regrettably we can't use this variant, because our old keys (before 7.0) were long (as a text, or as a file). Currently I have only one idea - ask a customer the number of his previous order to give the discounted price for the upgrade. How good this idea? Can you find your order ID for PicturesToExe? Thanks for any thoughts!

All modern players, LCD TVs, projectors can play 30p and 25p video. 44 KHz and 48 KHz. I recommend use 44 KHz for audio track in HD video file, because almost all MP3s were encoded at 44 KHz. All audio CDs are 44 KHz. Better to keep the original frequency of audio. Avoid unnecessary conversions. Your sound card or audio system in TV will perform automatically conversion if necessary. I recommend use 30p frame rate for HD video output for better smoothness of animation if your show contains only images. Use 30p even if you live in Europe, because all LCD TVs can play 30p content. If your show contains video clips, set frame rate for output as frame rate of source video clips. Of course, 50p/60p could be a better variant (than 25p/30p), but not all players correctly play these video files with high frame rate.

In the following version 7.5 AVI video output will be completely reworked. There will be 3 main output option: 1) Creating AVI video file with built-in MPEG4-ASP video codec (by default). Encoding is fast. AVI file can be played on any DVD player (SD resolution) or HD quality (PC, HD media players connected to TV, TVs with USB). 2) Virtual AVI file (as presently) 3) AVI file with custom video & audio codecs (as presently).

Hello Karl, Thanks for VOB files. I see flickering. Please send me source files of this show (images + PicturesToExe's project file *.pte). I'll explore this issue. P.S. Did you apply unsharp mask filter to images in a graphical editor before save it?

Karl, Please let me know: 1) Where you watched created DVD - on a PC or player connected to TV? If TV, is it LCD, Plasma or CRT television? 2) Please look at the attached screenshot. Double-click on a file to call this window with settings. Try to change this parameter to "Progressive". Will it help? Also make sure that "Anti-flicker" option is turned on. 3) Your country. 4) If it possible please upload source files of this project in ZIP archive (where you observe this problem). You can use www.mediafire.com to upload file or www.dropbox.com Thanks,

Hello, Probably the original image in CMYK color space?