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  1. Hi PhilG,

    now, I've found your notes, thank you.

    How about implementing these notes some place within the PTE presentation?

    Assume, I give your presentation to a friend to look at it for I liked it so much.

    He would't have any chance to find your notes. Besides that, it wouldn' hurt your presentation but rather complete it.

    I think, some form of prologue or appendix WITHIN the PTE Presentation with exactely that kind of notes would do the job.

    Not meant to critizise but to strengthen your presentation.

    Regards

    Rudi

  2. Hi PhilG,

    I enjoyed your PTE-Show about BEAMISH and wished, there'd be some more information about where it is located.

    Is it in Australia or Scotland? Maybe a map or even just some written info would be of benefit for the naiv viewer like me.

    Or let me put it this way: Let's assume, you just saw a marvellous PTE Show about RYOLITE or BRANDSTADT-SABA; wouldn't you want to know, where the heck it is?

    Greetz

    RudiRe

  3. On my computer, the music and the pictures restart also. After about one and a half repetitions, the otherwise nice bumble bee show ends apruptly in the middle of the second run. I also have the impression, some images might be skipped on my machine.

    My computer is a 4 year old Hewlett-Packard Omnibook XE 2 laptop, PII (266 Celeron) with 256 RAM.

    I think, the shows syncronisation runs differently on different computers, since the fast succesion of images and hence tremendous constant loading requirement puts quite some strain and burden on CPU power, while running the mp3 simultaneously.

    PTE might not necessarily be the adequat software for the bumble bee presentation, since it's not intended to be a movie player with many images displayed per second, but rather as a slideshow program.

    Maybe we can figure out the optimal minimum length, for which an individual slide should AT LEAST be displayed in PTE, for handling it universally correct on any computer.

    I also think, the image size corresponds with that problem, meaning: The smaller the image size, the more images you will be able to present within a second.

  4. JRR,

    when you add a gif as object, then PTE gives you the choice, to make it transparent or leave it untransparent as it is.

    If transparency is checked (marked), PTE takes the upper left pixel of your gif-object and makes all other pixels with the same color transparent.

    I hope, this explanation answers your question. If not, let me know.

    Igor, I'm sorry that your thread led to completely new topics.

    On the other hand, that's great.

  5. I totally disagree with you guys regarding the Windows briefcase.

    Just throw anything in there, that you want to have saved, and with two mouse-clicks, you'll have backed up everything, that has been changed since your last synchronisation. That's all. Nothing to configure. Foolproof, simple and reliable.

    I'm doing that on a daily basis on my zip-drive, and it's much more convenient to me than configuring an extra (costly?) program.

    Call me old fashioned. I'm no particular Bill Gates lover nor hater, but I take a bow for his briefcase (and Outlook Express).

  6. ccmanz,

    when a gif already is transparent, you cannot just "switch off" its transparency.

    The transparency selection within PTE has the function, to make untransparent gifs transparent, but it won't eliminate the transparency, which already is inherent within a gif.

    Therefore, it's always best, to use untransparent gifs within PTE and decide then, whether to make it transparent or not.

    This is also the reason, why the transparency selection mark was greyed out on one of your pictures, meaning "no chance to change", since the gif already was transparent by itself.

  7. ccmanz,

    the fact, that transparency looks strange on your gifs might be due to the fact, that very fine lines between your text get transparent as well, since it's also white.

    Try to change only the background color (main border) of your gif, but not the white within the thumbnaillike poster. This way, the text should not get affected by too fine and therefore disturbing transparency.

    I'm sure, it's a matter of your particular images and not a matter of PTE.

    I'll send you a new image, if you have your e-mail address deposited.

  8. I'm doing all my backups to zip-drive by means of the Windows briefcase. No additional software needed for that purpose.

    This way, only changed files or folders are backed up as well

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    Here's a joke fresh out of the academic science of semiotics:

    Question:

    What is an original?

    Answer:

    Anything, that can be copied.

  9. Hi Eric,

    the best results you'll get by making your own buttons outside of PTE in a buttonmaker- or image program with as many text lines as you want, then inserting your handmade buttons as objects into PTE.

    This way, you have full control over your text design, your fonts will look better and you also can use any ttf-font you like.

  10. I got kind of tired of the forum, mainly for two reasons:

    1.) Most questions are being asked over and over again.

    This makes the forum more and more redundant.

    2.) The tons of threads need, to my understanding, some structuring, some administrative sorting into categories. Otherwise, we're confronted with needles in a heystack.

  11. I think, the impact of ones title slides is rather a matter of your personal software skills and overall "artistic eye" in general, than a matter of the specific software you use.

    So far, I made all my title slides with Ulead iPhoto Plus, which came with my scanner and therefore was more or less freeware to me.

  12. I think, the impact of ones title slides is rather a matter of your personal software skills and overall "artistic eye" in general, than a matter of the specific software you use.

    So far, I made all my title slides with Ulead iPhoto Plus, which came with my scanner and therefore more or less was freeware for me.

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