davegee

Please note a couple of things: A fast PC with a good Graphics card is required to deal with this kind of Style. Full frame PNG files are treated by PTE in the same way as full frame JPEGs with respect to file size and 40+ full frame pics in a slide is quite strenuous on the PC. There are other ways of dealing with the required PNG files but they will probably appear elsewhere. I have used full frame PNG files - one for each blade of the fan - 19 in total. The "Pivot Pin" has been "grouped" with the 19th blade. After applying the action the Fan Object must be resized to 1200x800. The Procedure. Apply the PanosFX Fan Action in your Image Editor. Since this lies outside of the remit of PictureToExe I will not go into detail about it. Resize the resulting file as shown in the attached screen shot. It is essential that the guides intersect over the Pivot Point and that the guides are placed with "Pixel Perfection". This part of the Style deals with the Fan itself and the Background and Shadow can be ignored. Now Save each layer as a PNG-24 file where Layer 1 equals Blade 01 (through to Layer 19 equals Blade19). Browse to your Project Folder and create a new folder for the images created. In PTE: Browse to the Project Folder and the Folder containing the Blade PNG files. Select all 19 Blades and add to the Slide List. Check that they are in the correct ascending order. Import the Style attached below. Highlight all of the Blade PNGs in the Slide List and Apply the Style. The result is a 5 slide sequence. Fan Style.ptestyle The Shadow In your Image Editor, create a solid black version of each blade in turn. Select Transparency / Invert / Fill with Black. Make sure that the holes in each fan blade are selected. When finished it should look like this: Now Save each layer as a PNG-24 file where Layer 1 equals Shadow 01 (through to Layer 19 equals Shadow 19). Browse to your Project Folder and create a new folder for the images created. Add all 19 shadow images to the Slide List after the original 5 slides and with all 19 shadow blades highlighted apply the following Fan Shadow Style. Fan Shadow Style.ptestyle This creates 5 slides with the shadows. In O&A, copy and paste the blade frames from slide 1 to slide 6 (slide 2 to slide 7 etc). When complete you can delete Slides 1 to 5. The result is a combination of two applied styles and to complete the project just add a Background Image to all five slides.

A "How To" will appear in the Styles Section along with a Fan Style.

Panos seems to like this one - good advert for PicturesToExe. https://www.facebook.com/PanosFX-169363473080226/?fref=ts DG

I like his (Full) Book Action and I have that as you know.

Thanks for confirming. Each one of these is individual and if I figure out how to make a Style or Template I will post, but don't hold your breath.

Fixed - I think?

Thanks Frans - I will fix it.

I recently downloaded a couple of free Actions by Panosfx (thanks, Lin for the heads up) and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of his work. Here's a (short) Demo of how one of the actions could be used in PTE. Please choose 720p quality.

Is it possible that the reason you are seeing this problem is that you are working on the original "A" version even though you have "Saved As" the "B" version? The only version that you have opened, if I read your explanation correctly, is the "A" version. When I tried your original steps I closed PTE and opened the "B" version and because the "B" version was then the "current" version its name was suggested when I tried to make the Safe EXE. It seems to depend on which version is the "current" open version. Is that a fair statement?

The hard part is that you would have to set up your initial show exactly how you want it. Drag 100 images into the slide list. Set up all the Transitions, durations etc the way you want them. Highlight all 100 slides and create the Style in Slide Styles. The Style will sit in USER STYLES. The next time that you want to do this, drag 100 images into the Slide List and highlight them all. APPLY your previously made Style and it will create a clone of the Initial show albeit with different images but the exact same Transitions and Durations. Read the information when applying the Style and it will tell you if you have added the right number of Images. DG P.S. another option would be to create similar Styles for 25 and 50 slides and build the show up in stages.

I do not think that a Template would help you much here because you would have to add your images one at a time in Objects and Animation which is no quicker than changing transitions and durations. Theoretically, it would be possible to create a Style to do exactly what you want but there would be "rules" that you would have to adhere to. Always 100 images etc. See the Online Help for info on Styles. DG

Daniel, I tried it again and got the same result as before - the new name is suggested. DG

It is normal and many requests have been made similar to yours to have all images displayed in bold if they are used in a slide. The request has not yet been "granted"

Try taking the two images into your Editing Software and use "Save As" a different name. Then drag the two images into the slide list and see what happens. If you have the same result in PTE you could post one so that one of us could look for a reason? DG

So there is no need for special entries in the Hotkey list for Mac users with Parallels etc?

Tom, A question - when using Parallels do you use a Windows Mouse or a Mac Mouse? I am thinking about mouse function which use the Mouse Wheel. DG

I think that this is what "might" help Ken (aplman): http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-numerical-file-name-sorting-and-enable-classic-literal-sorting-in-windows-xp-vista-and-7-explorer/

Hi Ken, You should see a little "envelope" icon to the top right of the page (you might have to scroll up to the top of the screen). Click on it and your Inbox will show. Click on "Compose New" and the Message box will appear. Fill in the recipient's name (it should auto complete) and any other recipients you want to receive the message. Give it a title and away you go.

Hi Ken, I had no idea of your CV, or what APL Language is/was. I was speaking merely as a Windows user and as far back as I can remember it has always been so. Many times in the past I have found that I should have used a four digit numbering system instead of three and that the only way to insert a file, be it in my music or in my photography, is to used an alphabetical suffix. In its most basic form, if I am numbering music files for a CD, for instance, I cannot use 1, 2, 3 etc up to 20. I must use 01, 02, 03.........20 otherwise when I get to 10 I will be in trouble. If there were 100+ files I would have to use 001, 002, 003 etc. DG P.S. the best practical example of this that I can find is the numbering system used in cameras. Files will be numbered 0001 to 9999 before wrapping around to 0001 again i.e. they do not start at 1 and go to 9999.

Hi Ken, Forgive me , but it is not a Windows "error". It is the File naming standard. As I said, it is not possible to go from a 3 digit file name to a four digit file name without sometimes getting anomalies like the one you encountered. If you Google "File naming conventions" there is a lot of useful information out there. DG

How many tracks? Does each audio file have its own track? How are you adding the audio files to the timeline? Have you checked out the Timeline section of the Online Help? http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main-window/the_timeline Also check out the Hotkey Section of the Online Help. Ctrl+Mouse. http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/hotkeys/main#timeline

Check it out in File Explorer - it is a Windows thing and not a PTE problem. If you use 0070, 0080, 0090 then 0075 will automatically drop in between 0070 and 0080. However you can only insert 9 files between 0070 and 0080. When using 007, 008, 009 etc you have to revert to 007a, 007b, 007c for files between 007 and 008. You can then insert (at least) 26 files between 007 and 008. 007aa will automatically follow 007a. Check it out in File Explorer. DG

Try using 007a, 007b, 007c etc for files between 007 and 008?

I completely agree, but for those who NEED to make DVDs there are good and not so good ways of both making and playing them.

Update: http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main