Igor

Thanks, I see this mistake. It's because file damaged. I just fixed it for the future final release.

PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0 Release Candidate is available It should be last Release Candidate. And Final Release will be announced on Friday or Monday. Download link: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/picturestoexe-beta.zip (7 MB) Changes in release candidate: * Fixed issue with work two sessions of PicturesToExe when projects have PNG/GIF images. * "Show help window" action assigned for an left mouse button click on slide when mouse cursor hidden.

Exactly. Just two different ways leading to same result.

PicturesToExe always loads all Image objects of a slide to video memory ignoring time range or opacity values. To provide non-stop animation PicturesToExe's engine preloads three slides in advance to video memory. But if slide contains many heavy images DirectX may unload invisible image objects from video memory giving priority to visible images. It happens in case of lack of video memory and it doesn't occur instantly - DirectX needs some time to render at least one frame of a slide to a screen to determine what images are more important at a particular moment.

Ron, In version 6.0 an each letter in a text word adds about 3 KB to EXE file. For example, phrase "Hello, world" increases EXE file by 33 KB. We understand this issue, and next version will be optimized.

Ken, No, it's a release candidate. I'll upload final release soon, probably this week.

In fact limiting of visibility for an object by setting this time range gives same result as setting 0% opacity at the keyframe. And both methods provide same optimization of a slide - video card doesn't render such object at this moment that actual for slow video cards.

Thank you!

Daniel, Xaver, Bill, Please try latest Release Candidate. How O&A editor works?

PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0 Release Candidate is available Download link: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/picturestoexe-beta.zip (7 MB) Changes in release candidate: + Improved font combo box in the Objects and animation editor. + Updated Welcome screen after installation. + Fixed issue with some old integrated video cards when the Objects and animation editor didn't work.

Tom, I can't reproduce this issue, sorry. 1) Do you always have this problem or rarely? 2) Does copy/paste work in usual mode of Slide list? 3) Can you reproduce it with particular project, or with all projects? 4) Please try to start new project, drag-n-drop several new images (slides). Try to copy-paste slides. 5) Could you try same test with previous version 5.6? 6) What version of your Windows?

Yes, it is because of text objects. In version 6.0 we vectorize text symbols to give users ability use any unique fonts and provide same text view and quality in slideshows under PC and Mac. In next version we will try optimize this process and will use a dictionary of symbols that should vastly reduce text data in an executable file.

What version of PicturesToExe of these created slideshows? It's v4.49 or earlier? The problem comes with a picture (transition effects) or with sound/music, too?

Daniel, Xaver, Bill, I'm very glad! Thank you for the help. We'll prepare official Beta 25 with this fix on Monday.

Xaver, Daniel, Please try updated test version which may fix this issue: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/picturestoexe-setup_Oct-23-2009.zip Here we automatically de-initialize MiniPlayer and Slide list before open O&A editor. If it will help, PTE will suggest this mode to cure this problem. Also please let me know video memory size of your integrated video cards (Press Win+R, type "dxdiag", press Enter, choose third tab "Display" to see video memory).

Did you see these samples of Canon 7D on Vimeo? I really impressed - quality of a picture as in a commercial movie. Ocean http://www.vimeo.com/6992078 (Stunning colors, no color correction during editing) Forest http://www.vimeo.com/7023115 Autumn http://www.vimeo.com/7011771 (Stunning colors, no color correction during editing) Apparently we must hurry with implementing of video clips into slideshows.

Daniel, Thank you! Can I get full source files of this project, please? If file with this filename visible in show, it is OK. Many members use non-latin symbols in filenames.

Thanks, Xaver! No doubts only Intel graphical cards could cause this problem. It seems that their drivers can't perform correctly management of video memory. In previous versions of PTE the program switched to slow software based graphical engine.

Daniel, I prepared special test version. Please ask them download and try it: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/HW_picturestoexe-setup.zip Will it cure the issue with O&A editor?

Daniel, Please ask them for several questions: 1) Do they always have this problem with Beta 22-24? 2) Installed video card. 3) If close PTE and start PTE, and select second slide (view) and try to open O&A editor. Will it work?

PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0 Beta 24 is available It's Release Candidate. Download link: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/picturestoexe-beta.zip (7 MB) Changes in this beta release: + New icon of executable file with a slideshow. * Bug-fixes in the main program of PicturesToExe.

Barry, I reproduced same error message in Beta 23 when I tried to open a project with absent image file used in this project: Beta 21 shows warning that image file not found. Beta 23 crashes with "Floating point division by zero". We just fixed this problem for next Beta 24. However we need your project file to make sure that we completely fixed this issue.

Barry, Please could you send me some project (in ZIP archive) which opens with this error message on your PC?

I just received a reply from AVG company: Will send them again the file and link to this topic.