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Thanks for the clarification... Gary =======================

Greetings, I am a little confused about what Igor has stated about the change in how PTE handles unique fonts: "You can use any unique fonts for EXE file of slideshow now. PicturesToExe automatically will vectorize text objects and text comments and show text with highest quality at any display resolution. No need to use "Rasterize to PNG image" option in Objects and animation editor anymore." From reading this, I thought we would not need the "Rasterize text to PNG image" option in Objects and Animation anymore. However, it is still there. So I am wondering, why? If I use a 'unique' font now, do I have to do anything to it? Thanks... Gary

Morturn... Thanks for the comments. Yes, I do post-processing. Not too great at it but I try. I usually restrict it to Levels and USM. For other shots that need it, I might use Color Balance, Brightness and Shadow/Highlights. I have found that I tend not to take the shot as level as I should so lately I am using a lot of Transform/Rotate. I have never been satisfied with the results of my old Nikon D70 and my current D80. I was much happier with the results when I shot only slide film. But that was ages ago. Now, all digital. Yes...my shows tend to be too long. But I can't help it. This last trip was 3 weeks and about 1400 images. I was going to make it one looooooong slideshow but then I decided to do it in parts. So Czech Republic is one; Budapest will be another one; and I think I'll have to break Austria up into 2 parts. It is hard to remove images from a 'travelog' since each one means something to me. It is the most difficult part of doing a slideshow. My apologies for their lengthiness but they are more of a documentary 'travelog' than an artistic production. An artist, I am not. I do make the slideshow go pretty fast...about 2 seconds each image. But I always put in the navigational bar so anyone can stop to pause or to speed up through the show. I know this is a controversial issue. Most people want to make the show with NO controls for the viewer. I disagree...but that is just me. Many shows linger too long on each image and don't give the viewer the ability to stop to pause or to go to the next slide. I have heard your comment from others about not mixing landscape and portrait. My feeling is that all of one or the other would be boring. I like to mix it up. Especially if the subject is vertical, it calls for portrait mode. I make my shows mainly so that in years to come, I will be able to reminisce over the past trips and give other who might have gone there to see it from my point of view. And to encourage others who might not have been there, to go. Thanks for watching it...Gary ============================================================

Greetings... I finally finished this portion the slideshow of our trip through Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary. I didn't want to post anything until Igor figured out the bug I was having. He is brilliant and figure it out. So this is just the portion of our trip in the Czech Republic (Prague and Cesky Krumlov). Hope you enjoy the trip... It is at http://www.beechbrook.com/pte/ Gary

=========================== Igor... I tested the 3-slide sideshow in Beta 11 and the problem seems to have been cured!!!! I tried many times. I also let it sit on the last slide for a long time and it did NOT revert to the 1st slide. I tried it in Preview and as the .exe. No problems. Thanks so much for fixing it. Please let me know how this could happen in an .exe file. I am just curious, if it is not too technical. What was intriguing is that the flipping to the 1st slide was not consistent...sometimes it took only seconds, other times, minutes. And, why did it only happen to my slideshows? Was it just a combination of how I set up my slideshow??? Thanks again for looking into this. Sincerely, Gary

Igor... Thanks for reproducing the problem. I thought I might be going off the deep end! "How is it possible???...." I have asked the same question a million time... I hope you can figure out exactly what is happening!!!! Super Thanks... Gary ===================

Igor...see inserted replies below... CzechRep-Only 2009-TEST_Aug20-2009_10-35-09.zip

====================== Igor, Thanks for the reply. What is frustrating with this problem is that the situation occurs not only in Preview, but also occurs with the .exe file. I just ran the .exe file 5 times on my PC. The ending of the slideshow flipped over to the first slide at various and inconsistent times. The first time it took 1:47 (one minute and 47 seconds) to flip to the first slide; the next 4 times, it took: 0:25, :023; :57; and 1:14. It seems to me that since it occurs in the .exe file, there must be a bug in the program (maybe just my program or my PC)???? Just my guess. And it seems to be only happening to me on my PC. Later today, I was also able to play this same .exe slideshow on a laptop to see what would happen and the problem did NOT occur. So is it possible for my PC to be changing how the PTE's .exe file plays??? I didn't think that this would be possible. I just tried another test. I dumped all of the music files and reduced the slideshow to only 3 slides. The .pte and the .exe of this 3-slide slideshow will flip to the first slide after the end of the show (not necessarily immediately, but after a short time period). So I am completely at a lose of what is going on. I am willing to do any other tests but I have run out of ideas. Any ideas??? Thanks... Gary

==================================== Igor, I created a new slideshow using 5.7 Beta9 and I still get the problem of the last slide not staying on the screen at the end of the show. After the last slide in the show is displayed, it proceeds to show the first slide in the slideshow. This happens in the Preview and when playing the .exe file. You said you thought it was a bug in the program but it is still happening in the latest beta. Gary

Lin... I had forgotten where that file came from. But I had some feeling that I had seen it before. Thanks for reminding me and letting me know what it was. Yea...it came from Boxig...if I remember right. Gary ==================

Greetings Everyone... I have not been on the Forum for a good while due to this virus problem I had. I just want to let everyone know that the Virus was conquered and I am back to 'normal'. Whatever it was, attacked about 100 of my PTE's exe slideshows. I was able to dump all of them and recreate them since the .pte files were not damaged. We think it had to do with a maleware that came in through an ogg file, or something like that. After dumping a few of the strange ogg.dll files that apparently should not have been there, thing got back to normal. In addition to this, Brian (Conflow) worked with me extensively to insure that I got all the virus' remnants out of my PC. He spent at least 7 days giving me programs and advice and walking me through a lot of investigative processes. So this does not just end with me getting all the good help, let me pass on some of his cool programs which are free that you can use to examine the health of your PCs: * http://www.iobit.com/ - download the Advanced Window Care 2 Personal Edition (free) * https://www.regcure.com/ - RegCure: it does a free scan that can tell you if something is amiss (but the free version won't actually fix anything). * http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/comodoregcleaner.htm - This will fix your Registry errors. It found and cleaned out the last of my problem files. Brian also recommended using BitDefender for active virus protection: http://www.bitdefender.com/ . I am using the 30 trial version and it has be ranked very high. It is easy to use. (As I am typing this, BitDefender popped up and said it deleted a file that had a virus that could not be cleaned...so it really works!) Also, I have dumped my 3rd party firewall and now use the Windows Firewall. Brian had me run many other programs to get rid of my problem, but these programs above should help me, and you, keep you PC clean. I hope this helps. Thanks all... Gary

Brian... Thanks for the links. I will be running all the 'wipers' I can find. You think the 'malware' is still on my PC. That may be true since I still have this 'Create' problem. Also, I talked to the originator of the ogg file that you suggested that it might have been contaminated through a download. It was actually created by him on his PC...not downloaded. I found a Windows site that provides links to a bunch of 'wipers' that I will be trying: http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/xpsp2.aspx Thanks... Gary ======================

Greetings All, I think I know what might have put me in this hot water with this virus. I just put 2 and 2 together. A few weeks ago, I had posted that I could not do a 'Create Exe' without locking up the file. I had discovered that if I untick the "Check files when they are opened or copied" in my AV program, the problem went away. So with this protection level unchecked, maybe this allowed the virus to get into my system. I still have the problem when I try a 'Create Exe' so I have to have to have it unticked when I have to do a 'Create'. I'll have to be more careful to re-tick this selection when I am not doing a 'Create'. Maybe??? Gary

Brian... Thanks for the link to the Microsoft-Scanner. I will run it to double-check that the PC has cleaned up. I had already deleted the 100 or so files. When I ran my AV program, it quarantined these files. The choice was to delete them or to restore them. Since I could print out the filenames and paths of all the files and I have backups of them, I chose to delete them just to be safe. It is interesting that you relate the 'ogg.dll' to music files as the source of the virus. A couple weeks before all of this happened, I used a PTE exe file from a member of our Forum that had an ogg music attached. I noticed the first file that the AV program listed as being infected was that PTE exe file. It seems that that ogg music file infected my ogg.dll and then infected every PTE exe file through the music file (?). I discovered the problem when I tried to do a Create Exe. I would just not do it and PTE just froze. After trying to reinstall the PTE program, the 'ogg.dll' came up in the error messages. Then running my AV program started showing that it was quarantining a few files, then more and more files. The vast majority of the files were PTE exe's that I had made. There were a few exe's from other programs infected and a bunch of Window Restore files that were infected. I just wish my AV program could have discovered this when I put the infected file on my PC. Thanks... Gary

============= Yep..it is a Love/Hate relationship. I am now in the Hate phase as I try to replace the 100 or so files that became corrupted and I had to delete.... :( :( Gary PS But I love it when I can figure out how to defeat the beast when it acts up!!! :rolleyes:

=============== Well, after I cleared my head by posting my problem on this Forum, I think I solved it. I had mentioned that there were a couple files in the 'C:\Documents and Settings\Admin...\Local Settings\Temp' folder that could not be deleted. I thought they might be associated with this problem but wasn't sure. I just could not get rid of them. A light bulb just went off in my head and I went into the Safe Mode. I was able to delete the two file and then, I rebooted to regular Windows. I was than able to reinstall 5.64!!!! I am too tired to try 5.7 but I'll try it tomorrow. Thanks...It's always the last thing you try, right??? Gary

=========== No, unfortunately, this is the real thing. This 'Packed Win32.Krap.Gen' is a Trojan that has infected the PC and is preventing the re-install of PTE. Over 100 files have been quarantined and have to be deleted. Most are PTE's exe slideshows that I have created. Some were exe's from several other programs and a bunch of Window's restore files. It is strange how it zeroed in on PTE's exe slideshows. Gary

Greetings, I have been trying to deal with a virus I got a couple days ago. I noticed the problem when I tried to do a 'Create Exe'. The error message said something that had to do with the 'PteViewer5.exe' file. Everything froze. So I dumped the entire program and tried to reinstall 5.64. However, I keep getting the following set of error message: "Extracting files... C:\PicturesToExe 56\5.64\ogg.dll" and, C:\PicturesToExe 56\5.64\ogg.dll An error occurred while trying to rename a file in the destination directory: MoveFile failed; code 5. Access is denied" I was able, it seems, to get rid of the virus, 'Packed Win32.Krap.Gen'. When I found the virus, the path of the virus scan showed: c:\picturestoexe 56\showvideopte\HideShowTB.exe. I don't know if 'HideShowTB.exe is a PTE file that was corrupted or is an actual virus file. I found that over 100 files have become corrupted and over 90% of these corrupted files were exe files that I had made with PTE. The first few files that showed up to be corrupted were: ogg.dll, PteViewer5.exe and wma.dll, all in the 5.64 folder. I think I can replace all of the corrupted files from my backup that I had to delete. However, my big problem is that I can not reinstall 5.64. (I also had 5.7 installed and it became infected so I dumped it. I can not install it either). When I try to do an install, I get the error message above. The install process creates some tmp files in C:\Documents and Settings\Admin...\Local Settings\Temp but they disappear when I abort the install process. Two of the files are called 'is-EBNOU.tmp' and 'is-C6HE.tmp'. There are a couple other files there that can't be deleted. Might be associated with this problem...don't know. So....my question is, how can I get PTE reinstalled? I have been trying different things for 2 days but no luck, yet. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks... Gary

=============== Hi Colin, You can find these by choosing 'Project Options'. In the 'Screen' tab, you will see 'Aspect Ratio of Slides' and 'Virtual Size of Sides'. I am really no expert on what to use here. For example, I don't understand when or why you would choose 'Fixed Size of Slide'. Others are much more in tune to how these choices will affect the slideshow. But I hope this points you in the right direction. Gary

=========== Yachtsman1... I'm not sure if your response was directed at me. If it was, I don't understand how combining 9 audio tracks into one long track would help me find the beginning of each song while I am in the Timeline. I use Audacity but combining them reduces the flexibility I would want to have during the editing process. I might want to try replacing one audio file with another, until I found the right mix. It would help to be able to find where exactly that one music file is in the Timeline, especially if all the music is quite similar and hard to distinguish between them. I don't think Audacity will help me find the thin blue vertical lines. Did I miss your point? If you were responding to Xaver....my bad...never mind. Gary

============== Xaver, Sure, that would be great. But PTE is not there yet and I don't know exactly how he will do it. But even if he does it as you suggest, I still think it would be a nice feature to be able to 'GoTo' the beginning of each audio track. I am just trying to improve what Igor has given us without asking for a large re-write of the program. Once he gets into multiple audio tracks, etc., that will be a whole new ballgame for others to suggest improvements to those changes. I am just trying to get him to realize that trying to find that thin blue vertical line is not easy. Gary...

================== Xaver, I agree that multiple audio tracks would be a great feature. But whether there is only one audio channel or there are multiple audio channels, I still would like my suggestion to be implemented. I currently have 9 music selections in a slideshow I am working on. It is very time consuming and frustrating trying to find the beginning of each music piece in the Timeline. Being able to have a 'GoTo' button would be very helpful in either case. Gary

Greetings, I have made a suggestion in the past to increase the visibility of the thin blue vertical line (in the Timeline) that denotes the beginning of a new music selection. This thin blue vertical line is really hard to find, especially if you have several music selections. This has not been done (yet) so I have another idea that I think might be even more useful. How about adding a 'GoTo' button in the Timeline that will forward the cursor to the beginning of the next background music selection? I find it very frustrating trying to find that thin blue vertical line when I have many background music files. Thanks... Gary

================= Greetings, I haven't tried Kantaris, but nobody mentioned Divx, yet. A few days ago, I downloaded the player (free) and it played the MP4 on my PC that I had created in PTE. It also has the capability to burn the MP4 to a DVD. I tried it and it worked. I don't think there is any timelimit on this version, as least I don't see any. (One note about burning the MP4 to a DVD in Divx. It took me a while but I finally figured out that you have to 'import' the MP4 file into its Library in order for the Burn function to be active and recognize that you have an MP4 to burn). It won't play on a regular DVD player. But I wonder if the Blu-ray players will play this DVD with PTE's MP4? I don't have a Blu-ray player so I am wondering if anyone had tried this out. Any comments? Divx download site: http://www.divx.com/en/downloads Gary

=============== Peter, I downloaded the Trial version on my wife's PC just to be sure it would work without any of my install codes affecting it. In my test, the only item in the Create menu list that brought up a 'warning' that a Key is needed was the 'DVD-Video Disc'. At least, this is what I find. So maybe it is confusing? Gary