Peter N

As I said in my breakaway thread on this topic I am now back in business thanks to a new licence key, sent presumably by Elena. This thread can now be closed. Thank you all. PTE is an essential s/w for me. Regards Peter N.

Thanks everyone. I am now back in business with a new licence key from Wnsoft. Regards Peter N.

Thank you both for your advice. I'll be working on it during the next 24 hrs. Regards Peter N.

I have just responded on Yachtman1's "solved" thread but I didn't want it to seem as if it is all over, so I repeating my words here. Apologies if this is out of order but we(I)need a simple final solution. "I have just read this thread with horror!! I have a new 5 day old PC with quad CPU, oodles of RAM and Windows 7. I have been a user of PTE for yonks and I have V7 beta 12 on my old machine. I could not download version 6, getting corrupt file message. I tried downloading beta 14 (as a trial)on the new one and registering with my version 5 keyword. I keep all my keywords saved online. No good, it just ignores the keyword. I am not going to mess about with my registry but I want PTE on my new PC. Please will someone advise me what to do in words of no more than two syllables. I am seventy something not 96 and fairly computer literate but I shouldn't have to be asking this question. Regards Peter N."

I have just read this thread with horror!! I have a new 5 day old PC with quad CPU, oodles of RAM and Windows 7. I have been a user of PTE for yonks and I have V7 beta 12 on my old machine. I tried downloading beta 14 (as a trial)on the new one and registering with my version 5 keyword. I keep all my keywords saved online. No good, it just ignores the keyword. I am not going to mess about with my registry but I want PTE on my new PC. Please will someone advise me what to do in words of no more than two syllables. I am seventy something not 96 and fairly computer literate but I shouldn't have to be asking this question. Regards Peter N.

Thanks Jim, Mediafire is not co-operating on this just now but I have the Olga Boritsch slideshow. It's virtually what started me on PTE five years ago. I know there was condiserable admiration for LiL back in 2003 and I just want the chance to see it. Thanks for your quick resonse and Happy Christmas. Regards Peter N.

I would very much like to see Oleg Lobachev's slideshow "Life is Life". I think it was produced in 2003, possibly in collaboration with Olga Boritsch. I have searched the forum (and found only references but no current active link to the slideshow itself),and the web without success. I have been much inspired by his early work with PTE but for me this is the unfound missing link. Regards Peter Newman

With some pleasure I must add my own recent experience to this thread. Stimulated by Barry's post I have just converted a sldeshow of mine to an MP4 file and converted/ loaded this to my Zen MP3 player and it plays perfectly- transitions, music, all just as on the PC. I'm really chuffed and more than impressed. Many thanks to the Wnsoft team. Regards Peter Newman

Thanks Tom, mission accomplished. Regards Peter

I have been happily upgrading from v.4.48 through the betas but using PTE only through my PC. Now I want to investigate DVD burning. I have been to the WnSoft website but I do not seem able to find the route to buy the upgrade to the DeLuxe version 5. Apologies for being dumb but please someone please put me on the right track.

Just working out how to send an image. Hope this works. Apologies for cluttering up the forum. Chemop Just working out how to send an image. Hope this works. Apologies for cluttering up the forum. Chemop

This may have been done before. If so I apologise but this is my way of dividing a big presentation into several chunks that can be accessed easily within a single presentation. It also helps in that awful situation when a technical hitch halts a slideshow midway and you have to restart from the beginning and wish instead you could restart partway through. It also helps you be selective with what you show to different audiences. It is based on a menu prepared as a single slide slideshow made with v4.48. The on-time is set to 20 secs and the "keep last slide on screen" box is activated. The single slide is then annotated with as many buttons as there are "chunks". These are spaced, sized and labelled and set to activate individual exe's stored in the same folder. The backing slide is chosen to reflect the topic of the presentation. I am now using version v5 b7 for the mini-slideshows. These are set to close after the last slide so you are returned to the menu "slideshow" after each one has been run. The menu stays invisibly on screen (i.e.behind) throughout the mini-slideshows or until you decide to close it down. The mini-slideshows can, of course, be selected randomly from the menu as required. I would show you a screen grab of an example menu slide if I knew how to attach it to this post. In my hands this technique is proving to be very useful. I hope it gives someone else some inspiration.

I am not sure if this is an acceptble suggestion but I'll try it on you all even if it seems a touch disloyal and perhaps even heretical. Sheepishly I have to admit I use Google's Picasa software a great deal for managing my photos and making simple slideshows. It's free and it works and it's quick. Of particular interest to me it has a feature called gift CD which I use for distributing holiday photos among friends; and to make a slideshow digestible for viewers I divide, say, a few hundred pics into several mini-slideshows just by separating the pics into different folders, perhaps, for example, one for each day of shooting or logical subject section. Picasa automatically sizes the pics from my hard disk and burns an autorun CD, leaving the hard disk folders unaltered - very easy - I then just pop it into an envelope and post it. When opened, the viewer is presented with an overlapping collage of the header slides of each folder and by clicking on one of these images the appropriate mini slideshow starts, runs and returns to the title collage ready for "another bite of the cherry". Somewhere on this forum I have seen a multi-startup feature or menu presented but, if I may say so, as I remember it, it did not have the simple sophistication of Picasa's. Picasa does not of course match PTE's slideshow programming capability and is no rival for presenting photos stylishly. To come to the point, I think that PTE V5 could be programmed to emulate Picasa's front end, not just for a CD but for any longish slideshow presentation. I am just starting to get to grips with V5 but I know there are several of you out there with programming skills greater than I'll ever have. I wonder if someone would like to have a try and set up a startup template with buttons behind the collage images to set the mini-slideshows into action. I would welcome such a feature very much and it shouls not need any changes to PTE itself. What do you think?

Thanks Ken, it works. Regards Chemop

Lin, thanks for your good efforts but I am really struggling to view both the avi and swf files. I have tried Windows Media Player, Macromedia Flash and IrfanView but all I can get is a black screen and a low volume muffled voice in all cases. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong? I do have lots of internet protection on this machine, Zone Alarm and Norton Systemworks but the files download OK. I'd be greatful for help - from anyone. Regards Chemop

Many thanks Ron for this splendid tutorial - very clear, precise and practical - just what I needed to generate the confidence to work with version 5 myself. I'll look forward with great anticipation to your future ventures down this track. This is my first contribution to the forum. I'll be back.