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Hello Ron, Hello to all, This is a first try to make a description of the comment utility. It's for shure not complete. Maybe we can make it complete with your input and put it in the "Tutorials and Articles" section were everybody can read/use it. There are 3 ways to put text/titles/comments on a slide: 1) Project Options | Comments | Set text comment for new slides : you can choose from the drop-down list (click on the paper icon to see the list) a picture name, a path, etc. Instead of using something from the drop-down list, you can type your own text, title, comment. Anyway, your text placed here will be put on all the slides of your show when you click on the button "Set for existing slides". When you choose "Empty" from the drop-down list, all the text will be deleted from your slides. To adapt the font you can make fine-tunings in "Customize comment font". The text is shown on your slide when you open "Objects and Animation". It's also in the "Objectslist" as "Text comment". When you click on the text on the slide or on the object "Text comment" it's possible to adapt the font, color, size,... of the text. When you want specific comment on selected slides only (different comments) see point 2. 2) Highlight a slide in the "SlideList" on the Mainscreen by clicking on it. Put your text/comment/title for your current slide in the space "Comment". This text will only be shown on that selected slide. You can click on the paper icon at right, a box will be opened and here you can type your text. It's also possible to load text from a file on your harddisk (see "Load" button and follow the path). If you have put a text in "Project Options | Comments" valuable for all the slides in your show, this text will be overwritten by the text/comment/title you put here in the "Comment"-space. The text is also shown on your slide when you open "Objects an Animation". It's also in the "Objectslist" as "Text comment". When you click on the text on the slide or on the object "Text comment" it's possible to adapt the font, color, size,... of the text. 3) Objects and Animation | on the right hand you have your "Objectslist" with one or more objects (slides, frames, rectangles,...) | click on the "Add text" button above left in your screen (the A). A "Text"-object appears in the "Objectslist" and you can adapt the layout of your text in "Properties". You can use the text as part of an animation. The text you use here will not be shown in the "Comment"-space on the Main screen (see point 2). The text used here is part of the Objects and Animation and has nothing to do with point 1 and 2. It is possible to have a combination of comments/text/title with point 3 and point 1 or point 2. Greetings, Cor

Hello Lin, I have Flash 9 player installed. The link opened immediately. Resolution 400 x 300 on screen. Sharp image and snow falling as it should. I have an older computer: Pentium 4, 2.00 Ghz, 768 Mb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460 with 64 MB. Best regards, Cor

Lin, I also want to wish you a complete and quick recovery. Back on the forum after some time, I started reading, and saw your message. I can imagine a little bit how you must feel not to be able to do what you like to do. Anyway take time to recover and take care of yourself. My best wishes to you. And also greetings to Sherry, take good care of him, Lin is very important to us! Many thanks, Cor

Hello Henri, Bonjour Henri, I think you are from France, because you are talking about "sound B" - "son B" - , (in the English version "Sound" on the main screen of PTE). As Igor planned it, it will be available in version 5 Beta #9. See also: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5173 Cor

Dominique, The same happened to me. Completed al the necessary questions, correct email address. No confirmation mail, error message and no login possible. I appear as #36. But now everything is working, account activated. Many Thanks, Cor

Hello Dominique, Up and running again, fantastic, and so very quickly. Congratulations for that enormous work. I have no doubt that your new site will be better, one can see it already. So I tried to register myself, but did not receive the activation by mail. Is it possible to activate my account manually please? Many thanks in advance and a lot of succes! Cor Ps: I have send this message by mail to your adres thefreedom@free.fr, I post it also here because I don't know if you have received it. Thank you.

Hello Larry, I think John and Ken are right. We must look in that direction. It proves that you (via Task Manager) have shut down Media Player the right way.

Hello Jon, Welcome to the forum. - "Play background music" must be activated - Beta 5 v6 is working with "wave" and "mp3" files, not with "ogg" for the moment (version 4.48 does). - Look for the kind of file you use Hope this helps, Cor

Hello Larry, First, you have to know I am not an expert, just try to help. In the past I had also a problem with starting Media Player, after some search, this is what I did to fix it: - Go into Task Manager - You see the first tab (for me it's in Dutch "Toepassingen") in English it's "Applications" I think - When you see Media Player activated, stop the activation: Highlight the line and push "End task" button right-under. - Stay in Task Manager - Click on the second tab "Processes" - Now you see a list with programs that are started and are running on your computer right now. - Look for "wmplayer.exe" (it's there one or more times in the first column, it depends how many times you tried to open the program) - NOW, BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO DELETE SOMETHING ELSE! - Click on the first "wmplayer.exe" (highlight it) and push the "End proces" button right-under the window. You have a warning window now and confirm with "Yes". Do the same for every "wmplayer.exe" that is in your list. - Leave Task Manager. - Restart your computer. - Click your "shortcut button" to Media Player, when the pad to the program is right, Media Player should open now. I hope this helps. Cor

Michel, Entering your site back to normal, thank you, merci . Cor

Hello Jean-Pierre, My experience is that with 1600 x 1200 JPG-pictures and with my computer Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2,00 GHz, graphics card NVidia GeForce4 MX460 with 64 Mb of graphics memory: Fading is smooth at all times and also with most effects of PTE, when I go from one picture to an other (fading procedure). However when I use Panning and Zooming and use more than five 1600 x 1200 JPG-pictures to make an effect, I have sometimes some "hics" (short hop) in the fading to the following picture (after the effect). Also the "hic" problem seems to be frequent in a Pan-Zoom effect when I use one or more PNG-pictures. I think that the "hic-problem" is also a question of my videocard, only 64 Mb, and the NVidia GeForce4 MX460 is not what you say a brilliant quality videocard, also aged. Recently I made a show about Rajasthan (India). It's a show of 34,5 minutes and about 233 Mb "big" with music, narration and 334 pictures with a size of 1600 x 1200. To run it (completely) smooth on my computer I had to bring the pictures back in size to 1024 x 768 (JPG high quality). The file is now 141,5 Mb and runs very smooth. Cor

Michel, 1) Download back to normal. Very nice pictures, beautiful sound, smooth show, except small "hic" between the end of the panorama and the first fade. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2,00 GHz, graphics card NVidia GeForce4 MX460 with 64 Mb of graphics memory. 2) Still not possible to enter your site www.lediaporama.fr with my usual pasword . Cor

Michel 1) There still is a problem with the attachment, I can't get in either because a message pops up which says "bye bye" and asks for a user name and password to enter your site www.lediaporama.fr When I enter my user name and password (I am member of your site: CorVdK) it jumps again on my user name. Sometimes the user name changed in the user name I got from my internet provider. 2) I can not log in anymore with my user name and password on your site www.lediaporama.fr. What is happening? Cor

I just want to make a call to every member of this forum and every user of PTE to be open minded please. There are so many clever people here (and also on the French forum) who do the impossible to try to put everybody on the same level. New ideas are coming very fast for the moment and it is not always possible to absorb everything. Maybe some tests, or propositions, or lay-outs, or whatever, are not useful for all of us, but they are available if someone need them. The possibilities of PTE are so enormous that one can take advantage of it for his proper use. Cor

I'll look forward to it Jean-Pierre You are right. There is a constant ( r)evolution going on. But if you want to be up-to-date in 2 years time, it's important to learn today I think. Maybe I'll never drive a Ferrari, I'll want to be as close as possible anyway. Sometimes it's also a question of budget, but you don't have to be very rich to have fun. Cor

Hello Jean-Pierre, bonjour Jean-Pierre, I like your test very much. Not only for the fantastic view of Paris (a few years ago I worked for a French company and we had regularly meetings in Rueil Malmaison and also in the south of France, in Albi near Toulouse), but also for your explanations and practical use of the PTE-program. It is not alone realy interesting to know how far you can go with your proper computer, but I think it is a must that one knows what the limits are of the machines we are working with. With PTE the sky is the limit, or better, there is no limitation on creativity. Everybody is free to fill it in on his own way, and than it is good to know how technical things work best in a production. Your test ran very smoothly on my computer: Pentium 4 - 2,0 GHz - 768 MB cache Graf.card: GeForce4 MX460 - 64 MB DDR SDRam Je vous remercie bien vivement pour cela. I thank you for that.Cor

Hello TheDom I am also very angry and sad about your misfortune. There are no words for it. It's fantastic that you want to build your site up again. Hope I can help you too. I send you today a large file, about 159 Mb, with following of your creations: Big Picture effect BookPortrait Camera-Mask Clock CloudySky Countdown CurlPages FilmStrip Flight2 Laetitia & Rectangles LensFlare Mask Libye2006 (exe file) Masks Mirage NavBar01 Panorama PhotoCorners Masks Reflects Solar Template01 Theater TransparencyCut WhiteFrame If I can be of any assistance for translations: French - English - French Just ask. Cor

Hello to all, I think we have to be careful, because those "machine translators" are still not working very well. Most of the time they translate word after word and use words out of context, so the meaning of the message in the translated language is completely gone. Making a translation is more than putting word after word. To make a translation of a program or a tutorial, you have to understand completely how the program is working and/or what the author of the tutorial is exactly explaining. Thus to make a good translation you need lots of "background" that those "machine translators" don't have. I do not say that translators as "Babel Fish" are useless, but do not expect to much of it. Greetings, Cor

Hello to all, Yes it is an indicator. But a very important one. If this button is shown pressed for a particular image (slide), this selected image will use its own customized settings, if not, then common settings will be used (defined in <Project Options>). So, all images in your project will be shown with the settings you make in <Project Options>. Example: Display time for each slide = 5 sec (in "Main" tab); Fade in/Out effect duration 1500 ms, thickness of smooting line = 60 (in "Effect" tab); customize comment you put in "Set comments for all slides as:" (in "Comments" tab); etc. But if you want one particular image (slide) must not be shown with the common settings of <Project Options>, then select the necessary slide in the "Image List" and go to the "Customize Slide..." button, click on it, and you come in the "Use customized settings for this slide" menu. This menu window is intended to assign some individual settings for a slide. You can make adapted settings in the "Main", "Comments", "Effect" and "Music" tabs. At first site, all settings look similar as in <Project Options>. But when you make necessary changes and click the <OK> button to apply the new settings, then you will see the small <P> button on the main screen is pressed: It means that this slide will use its own customized settings you just specified. Example: If you want a particular slide on the screen for 7 sec. instead of 5 sec (common settings in <Project Options>) it is here in the "Main" tab that you do the settings, "Timing", check "Use own time preference" and put "7" in the "Display slide for (sec.)" box, click the <OK> button. If you want to change the effect and/or fade time for this particular slide it is also here you do it in the "Effect" tab. Now, for what reason, you want this slide to use global settings again (specified in the <Project Options>), just click the <P> button to "unpress" it and you will notice when you go back via the "Customize Slide..." button, in the "Main" tab, "Timing", that the "Use own time preference" is unchecked and the "Display slide for (sec.)" box will show global settings again (the 5 sec. you used in <Project Options>). To undo the settings you can also open again the "Customize Slide..." window and uncheck "Use customized settings for this slide" option. I hope this will help, Greetings, Cor

To Phil (barksworld) and tarzees a lot of courage. To Ken Very good Jesus vs Satan joke Cor

Hello Bubba, Yes, from PTE-side it's all possible and when there is no objection from the author. I try to see as much shows as I can and like to puzzle things out myself. But you are right, we still can learn a lot of some members of the forum here and it is not enough to know how to use PTE, but you have to be also an expert in Photoshop-like programs too. Greetings, Cor

Hello Bubba, There will be a problem, because the completed slideshows are .exe files remember. Besides that, it is not very creatif to copy someone's work. I don't see how you can copy your own photos in a program of someone else (using the program it's possible I know if you have the .pte file), or how you can for example copy photo's of a show about India in a show of South Africa. Rather strange to me. Greetings, Cor

Hello Dominique (thedom), When you brought up the idea of making and using templates for special effects, I also thought it was a good idea (and basic it still is). But in the weekend I started with a new slide show and worked a little bit with effects and sequences of the show. I realised and noticed that it is almost impossible to use "standardized" effects, because you make an effect for that specific sequence. Once you bring together 2, then 3, sometimes 7 slides in the "well known parent-child" order to achieve the effect. I think, when you have a folder where you can keep only the very special and rather complicated templates (to use on some occasion) that will do. It will be impossible to make a template for every effect anyway, but in my opinion individual files are more convenient. Greetings, Cor

thedome, Thank you very much for all your work, it's a very nice looking layout. I played a little bit with it and I think it will be very useful in some projects as well. You asked for suggestions, I'll try to explain: When I first looked and tried the templates, I had to look what will it do and what shall I have to do to change the pictures. In the beginning it was a little bit confusing and also a bit overwhelming. It was only after some time playing with it that I have seen the possibilities. So I think the purpose and usefulness of the templates will stand if it is easy to use and if it is easy to choose a certain template for a certain project. I have been reading your explanations about the templates on the forum in advance, but may be you could add some explanatory text that's shown on the screen or separately in a .txt or .doc file for each template, because it is not handy to switch from the page of the forum to the PTE-program and reverse. You have already 3 different template projects included, so give a tittle to each template project, example suggestion: FilmStrip 001 - Fading A to B FilmStrip 002 - Turning landscape to portrait FilmStrip 003 - ..... with some hints and/or tips and explain shortly what the purpose is of the template project. Just tried to help for what it is worth, but this about my feelings of using your excellent work and ideas. I have seen and tried your other projects that you have posted here as well and learned a lot of it. Thank's again. Cor

To Ron, Thank you for your support. I now appreciate a lot more your efforts to make new tutorials. What time it takes to test, to find the correct words and sentences for the actions. And very important to state things clear and "easy". To Gilio and Ken Cox, Thanks both for your support. To all the members of the forum, who helped with tutorials, tests, programs, demonstrations, templates, etc thank you very much, it's very much appreciated. Cor