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Hi Thank you for that. However, making a sequence available to show on a Mac is not the point! The point is to create the sequence in the first place on a Mac, with a Mac Program, - without using 'Windows' at all - either through 'Parallels', 'VMWare' or 'Bootcamp' :rolleyes Cheers Geoffrey

Hi Simply put; you should have a 'dedicated' Graphics Card on the lap top rather than 'integral', as part of the RAM, - basically this tends to be on better (more expensive!) specified machines! Cheers Geoffrey

visage New Member Group:Members Posts:8 Joined:07-December 02 Location:UK Posted 17 January 2003 - 10:59 AM I have had a request for a Slideshow of wedding photo's from a client who has an I-mac which is running windows. (emulator?) Will a Pictures to Exe. presentation be compatible with his setup. Thanks Alan 0 Hey! A lot of developments in 9 Years! A MAC version of PTE is not one of them!?! Do we give up? - "It just ain't goin' to happen" Is PTE a skirmish battle in a war akin to the VHS vs Betamax conflict? The only winners are Lawyers, Accountants - oh and don't forget the poor Bankers! Or is it simply lack of interest or competence, is there a 'Microsoft' subsidy? Sod the users! (I was not such a cynic 9 years ago - :olol ) Kind regards Geoffrey

Hi bb Ok! - points taken on your considered response. I will settle for 'Boot Camp'! Now: is there another thread regarding Boot Camp Vs 'Parallels' or 'Fusion'? Cheers Geoffrey ps I still love my MacBook

Hi BB No No No! Just to be clear: It is not that Mac users wish to 'Run Windows' - Far from it - we wish to AVOID 'Windows'. What is requested is Mac versions of some useful software (e.g. WnSoft PTE) that is currently only available in the 'Windows 'format! Cheers Geoffrey

Hello Ken Thank you for that - that link has worked! Not quite the desired answer for Mac users though! However, as a current alternative; how does Windows 7 perform with PTE - Is it worth 'Boot Camping' (that is installing 'Windows 7' on a separate part of a Mac Hard Drive)? And, as for a point of clarification and with my, albeit limited, understanding, a Mac version just could not be 'Part of PTE' - they are simply designed and written for different operating systems! (.exe files are 'Windows 'executable' (i.e. 'playable') files, and by definition MAC files are not .exe files?) It is just that a 'Mac' Version for File information and management would be good! But can we take as a positive that it WILL WORK (IF and )when it finally arrives? (But will 'Microsoft' actually allow this development?) Regards Geoffrey

Hi Ken Thank you for the response. However, when I clicked the link I got the message: "can’t open the page “http://www.picturest...t=0” because the page’s address isn’t valid" Please can you help? Cheers Geoffrey

Hi Igor Your opinion is very important for us. MAC Version? Need we say more? Cheers Geoffrey

Hi Igor Any progress in 8 months? Are we wasting valuable time waiting? If you guys cannot cope at least just come clean and TELL US NOT TO EXPECT A MAC VERSION AT ALL! It is more limiting for cross platform display purposes but we can use 'Keynote' (that is the 'Presentation' software package that is in iWork). Geoffrey

The influence of MICROSOFT (are they a paymaster?)

Hi Ecuse me for appearing daft but are; "ipods, iphones, ipads, ithis and i that" not 'Hardware'?

Hi Is anybody listening?

Is anybody listening?

Hi Any chance of a MAC version - at least be honest if the PTE technologists cannot cope, or is it an Apple licensing difficulty or something like that? Cheers Geoffrey Hi Please excuse me as I am not used to these forum things! However, I have posted on this this issue in the general forum in responding to an earlier disussion. All I am trying to do is push for the development of a MAC version of PTE - and this seemed that it may be an appropriate place to at least create some further discussion. Cheers Geoffrey PS MACs 'Just Work'!

Hi Any progress?

Hi,Since enquiring about a Mac Version of PTE in November 2008 you suggested that it would be about 12 Months before a Mac version may be available. Is there any possibility of a version soon? Cheers Geoffrey Wignall

Hi Peter Conversion to Jpeg files should be the final step - and only to get the files to a manageable size for use in PTE. You should have a RAW converter be it NX2 (as suggested by davegee above) or Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) - there are others as well. [by the way I am a Nikon user and I have NX2 - I use Lightroom and CS4 - and I convert NEF's to DNG on import, and export to jpeg as required for output] ACR is the same 'engine' in CS4 as in Lightroom - although the default Colour Space in Lightroom is Adobe ProPhoto - a wider gamut than Adobe RGB, and certainly sRGB. But where Lightroom scores is in Image Organisation - Ok there are issues with having to 'import' image location references into the program (that is all they are, 'references' to wherever they are 'stored') but the sorting e.g. into 'Slide-Show' 'Collections' is far quicker than in Abobe Bridge. Lightroom is a database of references whereas Bridge is a Folder Browser - like Windows Explorer, so if an image is in two folders then there are two separate images on the disk, whereas with a database referencing system there is only one. What you cannot do in Lightroom (or NX2 for that matter!) is 'composites' e.g. making an in between image as well as the two separate images either side - as you may like to do for a sequence - that is a Photoshop (layers) job. Nonetheless, Lightroom is good for image organisation and RAW Processing - which is what you should be doing for the reasons bbdigital outlines. For reference I admit I am a 'book' person and I have - and use: 'Lightroom 2' (2009), Nathaniel Coalson, Wiley, Indianapolis - Straightforward, to the point and covers all the bases 'The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book', (2009) Martin Evening, Peachpit, Berkeley - Comprehensive - its the official Adobe manual (that does not come with the software lol) But bear in mind Lightroom 3 is currently in Beta, and has been for a while so I do not expect it will be too long before it is relaesed (although if we have to wait as long as for a mac version of PTE then the breath is not worth holding - lol again!) Regards Geoffrey

Hi I have just caught up with this thread (reference my response to the Linux query ) It's good to know that we MAC users are still in the loop . Cheers Geoffrey

Hi Tom Give the guys a break They are (I hope ) concentrating very much on a MAC version Any progress Igor? Cheers Geoffrey

Hi Tom Thanks for that - I will bear your comments in mind (and Boot Camp is FREE!). I will let you know how I get on Cheers Geoffrey