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The product is designed to run on Windows and in the future on the MacIntosh. Android and iPads do not have a compatible system which can run computer software. Computer, in the relevant sense means Windows or OS X. Yes, a company could produce shows in an executable fashion should they have the time, resources and inclination to pursue each and every manufacturer's idea of executable code. Right now the product produces video to run on these products and that is quite sufficient. Apple doesn't run their OS X on iPads, and their MacIntosh applications are not compatible with iPads. Why in the world do you think Wnsoft would even consider creating code to make their executable files run on Android or iPads.
I said what i said becaus you said tablets lack a cpu or operating system and can't run executable code and now you say Android and ipads can't run computer software. Thats crazy talk. How can a tablet run the millions of apps if there's no cpu or operating system?
Whether WnSoft wants to support tablets is up to them but its something to consider because theyre everywhere.
This year, we’ll buy more tablets than notebooks for the first time ever. But by 2017, we’ll buy six times more tablets than laptops, according to market researcher NPD.
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The issue with most "tablets" and an exe file is that executable code requires a computer with a central processing unit (CPU) and an operating system in order to "execute." Executable means that the code produced gives instructions to the computer to do or "execute" commands. These commands in the relevant sense take the form of changing the size and position of our images, videos, graphics, etc. It determines the length of display time, the intensity of the display (opacity) and so on. Without a CPU and operating system designed specifically for this purpose, there is no way to run executable code. Most tablets have no CPU and operating system capable of using computer executable code. There are a few produced now (ASUS and Microsoft have models) which will actually run Windows. These "can" play executable files, but no "App" can be created by Wnsoft to run executable code on a tablet which does not have the necessary operating system and CPU to interpret it.
LOL!!! that's certainly far out there. Wow.
Android tablets and iPads have a CPU and an operating system and run executable code, just not Windows code. WnSoft could create slide shows for those if they wanted to and had the time. Maybe when th Mac version is done. LOL.
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I've just been converting some old shows to video files to enable them to be played on my Hudl Tablet. Would it be possible for Wnsoft to produce an APP to enable exe files to be played on tablets or smart phones. I've done a little research but haven't taken the plunge to try one on this link. My Hudl OS is Jellybean, has anyone else tried successfully to run an exe file on a tablet. If not it could be another source of revenue for Wnsoft???
The .exe's need Windows and the tablets run Android or ios, so no.
Unless someone writes a windows emulator, it wont work, and even then it probably wont since the emulation will slow it down.
you have to make a movie out of them.
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I have been asked by one of our local museums to re-package their training video. This currently exists as a DVD that plays in a fairly old DVD player. It has two folders: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. There seem to be no files in the AUDIO_TS folder but several files in the VIDEO_TS folder. The majority of these (especially the larger files) are VOB files.
I have tried launching PTE (v8.0.2) and navigating it to the VIDEO_TS folder in the Tree panel but it shows no files when I do so.
Can anyone suggest a way in which I can load these VOB video files into PTE?
Get Handbrake and convert it to whatever format you prefer. Depending on your computer, it might take a while.It's completely free and runs on Mac, Windows and linux
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Interesting reply. I'll have to try this if I can pry the iPad out of my wife's hands. Any chance you have any idea how far back P2E goes with Mac O.S.'s
OSX 10.4 for a slide show and iPads must have movies (theyre not a mac).
I've got an old MacBook laptop (Lombard-line) which you can't get batteries for any more and has a charging problems. It has O.S. 9.1 on it and appears to have difficulty dealing with the mac slideshow that I created in my pc version of P2E. I'm going to download a mac version of winzip, since it can't do anything with the zip file I created with my pc. Any thoughts?It wont work. You need a Mac with an Intel chip and anything that ran 9 doesn't have Intel inside.Its too old. It has to run OSX10.4 at least.
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i have a question in reference to this topic. Are you saying it creates an .exe for macs? If so, what about the .app file for macs (I have an older version of pics2exe and that's what it creates). I use this program a lot! For mac users it works, however, would love to get a solution for ipad users. I see the new version creates an .mp4 file for ipads. Is that correct? If so, is that the same interface as say when running an .exe file on a PC, which is a great way to show clients their images....help??
PTE creates a Mac application but for an ipad or android tablet you need to make a movie.
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Thinking of buying my Mac using son PTE8 as a Xmas present, but a bit put off by the many posts of 'problems' when using a Mac.
Would someone care to offer an opinion as to whether the 'best' setup is to use Bootcamp, Parallels, both, or something else altogether?
Boot Camp lets you boot into Windows and there will be no issues at all. Its now a Windows system.
Parallels and VMware run Windows while running Mac OS and you don't need to reboot.
Either way works but there's less hassle with not needing to reboot.
How much memory is in the Mac and which Mac is it?
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So someone uploads a file to dropbox for you and you have not downloaded it and it magically appears on your own hard drive? Doesn't work that way for me... If it worked that way, Dropbox would have to have a really great crystal ball which would automatically know the URL of every computer which might ever request a file from someone else who had uploaded it. That would be a pretty good trick if it could be done.
He said "I have pictures in Dropbox and hard drive" To me, that says its his own photos in his own Dropbox account and they are already on his hard drive. All he needs to do is access them like any other folder.
Youre talking about when someone publishes a Dropbox url.That is different. Obviously you have to download someone elses photos but thats not what he said.
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You don't actually "move" you images. Just put them all on either your hard drive or on some other form of local media and navigate to that place from PTE. You will not be able to attach to images in Drop Box - you have to download them to your system first.
No you dont. Anything in Dropbox is already on the local hard drive including images.All Dropbox does is mark a particular folder on the hard drive to be synced to the cloud. Its still a local folder, with files on the hard drive and works like any other folder of images.
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Can I transfer videos to/from the iPad? I would like to put some of my PTE slideshows on my iPad and transfer some of my iPad camera videos to PTE.
Why not do that with iTunes? And copying stuff off the ipad, use iPhoto or Lightroom and then to pte.
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Specsavers? Vision Express? Pony Express?
That was the first report. New information came out this past week and its a lot worse than thought.
The sad part about this is how many stupid people use easy to guess passwords like 123456 (almost 2 million!) or password (almost 350000) or worse, put the password in the hint for all to see. That's just begging for problems.
Here's the top 100 passwords used: http://stricture-gro...dobe-top100.txt
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Of course it is in the links I gave - repeated below for your convenience:
why dont you tell Microsoft and Apple and Adobe they got it all wrong. Just give them the links to set them straight. LOL.
But an app is not just any old software program — it's a special type of software program. An app typically refers to software used on a smartphone or mobile device such as the Android, iPhone, BlackBerry or iPad, as in "mobile app" or "iphone app."In recent years, the shortened term "app" (coined in 1985[3]) has become particularly popular to refer toapplications for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the shortened form matching their typically smaller scope in relation to applications used by PCs.
Maybe if you could learn to read more carefully, you might know where I get my opinion ...
Maybe if you could not be rude.
When I learned to read, I learned that the word typically does not mean always.
App is typically used for phone apps but it is not always used that way, like with Apple and Microsofts app stores.
Today it means an executable program on a phone tablet or computer.
The term was "coined" in 1985 - not exactly a "new word" - 28 years....I believe it was you who started the argument....
you believe wrong. Im not arguing. I agree with your links.
there weren't smartphones in 1985, so when it was coined it could only have meant one thing, something that runs on a computer.
just goin by what your links said.
Now back to the topic at hand. Hopefully there is a fix for this soon.
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That's still your "opinion" and I don't share it. My response concerned my demonstration which was absolutely not designed nor output for a mobile device, pad device or any device other than a MacIntosh computer. I agree personally with the Wikipedia definition and explanation below. So you are welcome to your opinion about what the term "app" refers to, and thank you very much, I'll keep my opinion which is quite different......
Suit yourself. The rest of the world calls them apps, including Microsoft.
Adobe Photoshop Express is an app:
In information technology, an application is a computer program designed to help people perform an activity. An application thus differs from anoperating system (which runs a computer), a utility (which performs maintenance or general-purpose chores), and a programming tools (with which computer programs are created). Depending on the activity for which it was designed, an application can manipulate text, numbers, graphics, or a combination of these elements. Some application packages offer considerable computing power by focusing on a single task, such as word processing; others, called integrated software, offer somewhat less power but include several applications.[2] User-written software tailors systems to meet the user's specific needs. User-written software includes spreadsheet templates, word processor macros, scientific simulations, graphics and animation scripts. Even email filters are a kind of user software. Users create this software themselves and often overlook how important it is.That says an application, or app for short, is a utility, programming tools, word processing, manipulate graphics (PTE) and more.
The delineation between system software such as operating systems and application software is not exact, however, and is occasionally the object of controversy. For example, one of the key questions in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial was whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser was part of its Windows operating system or a separable piece of application software.If the Supreme Court says IE is an app, I'll go with that too.
duno where you get your opinion but its not the links you gave.
App is a new word to describe the same thing as executable or program. Get with the times.
it also has nothing to do with the original topic anyway. You just want another argument.
The problem is PTE slide shows aren't signed and causing headaches for users. That is what matters and it would be fantastic if it can be fixed.
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You have your "opinion" and I have mine.
There is nothing authoritative about that link and it agrees with me anyway.
So I am going to try to explain what an app is. The word app is a noun, and it’s short for “application.” Application in this case refers to a software application — in other words, a software program.The slide shows PTE makes are a software program, an app or application, just like any other app on a Mac or Windows system.
App is the new popular word for what is also called programs or executables. There is no difference.
"App Store" sounds better than "Executable Store".
Final Cut for video editing is an app on apple's app store. Even the latest version of Mac OS is on the app store.
Its not just phone apps or just apple. Microsoft has an app store for windows.
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Of course it's not an "app" and for certain it doesn't come from a Mac App Store. It may be a legitimate security measure by Apple but it may also serve as a means of frightening Apple owners into not using anything which doesn't provide more revenue stream for Apple. I'm suspicious that it may be the latter especially because of the huge amount of virus, trojans and other malware threats experienced by Apple users NOT. LOL.
It's definitely an app, just not one that comes from the app store. There is no difference, other than where its downloaded.
Revenue isn't why either. Its security. There are plenty of free apps on the app store, no revenue for anyone.
it would be nice if slide shows could be signed. That would make it easier to distribute them. I get this question a lot, how do i run your slide show.
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Already given but heres more. go to an Apple store and a Microsoft store. One of them will be packed with people buying all sorts of white and silver products and the other one will be mostly empty. Even the mac sections in big box stores are much busier than the rest of the store. Everywhere I go I see lots of people using macs from kids to elderly people. Roughly half of my clients use Macs.
thats very odd for something that supposedly has just 9% market share.
Look again, and it has everything to do with the discussion. Consumer share is what matters for consumer software.
http://windows.micro...oft-surface-pro
You brought up AV competitions, not me.
Not the same thing.
What part is not clear:
"and unlike many companies, says it never pays for its products to appear on television or in movies"
"Apple was struggling in those days, and then, as always, refused to pay for product placement"
"Such barter deals are common today, and Apple is rare in having the luxury to skip them"
I didn't call you a liar. Kindly stop fabricating things I did not say, or i will call you a liar.
What I said was I doubt you know any Apple VPs, and it turns out you named one out of the several you claim to know and she is the VP of AppleCare and a new hire, so she wouldn't know anything about Apple's product placement policies, so why even mention it?? It doesn't support your claim at all. YOure just tossing names.
Either you have proof that Apple pays for product placement, contrary to everything Apple and other sources have said and on numerous occasions, or you don't, and its clear you dont.
Outdated beliefs. 20 years ago that might have held water. Not anymore. Things change, and what matters anyway is using the best tool for the job, not blindly picking what you think is the leader. Sometimes thats a Mac and sometimes it isn't.
Im not disputing him nor am I arguing. Again, stop fabricating things I did not say. What one employee uses is not indicative of the entire company.
Pixar uses mac, windows and linux. This is a fact and easily observed by visiting their web site.
That means some employees will be using a mac and others won't. Some employees might even use more than one system. Like most well run companies, they use the best tool for the job. They dont have biases or mistaken beliefs. Pixar obviously uses macs to write Renderman for Mac and Macs are clearly visible in the video I linked. It doesnt get any clearer than that.
Claiming that Pixar does not use Macs is silly and obviously wrong and makes you look foolish, so why do you continue?
Another Mac user is Intel ex-ceo Paul Ottelini, "where Paul says that he uses his Mac for personal stuff, and his virtualized Windows PC in Parallels for business stuff, which is a similar use case that we're seeing from many of our hundreds of thousands of users."
It doesnt and I do.
WNSoft said 1-2 years when they first announced they were doing a mac version, so even they dont think it takes 5 years.
I work with software developers for mac windows ios and android (I create the graphics for whatever programs they are doing) and i have a very good idea of how long things take since i see a variety of programs move from the original spec to the finished product.
Anyway, I asked a couple of the mac guys about what they thought of PTE for mac. They said no way would it be 5 years. They said more like a year, maybe 2 if its their first mac program, which is what wnsoft originally said. One guy didnt even think it would take that long. Heck even the Windows guys i work with dont see it taking 5 years and they don't do any mac programming!
meanwhile, microsoft converted Windows to run on an entirely different cpu for Windows RT in a couple of years. Unfortunately its not selling too well. Too bad, because the idea of a single system to run on everything is good.
Apple converted OSX to run on Intel in a couple of years, faster than what they said it would be and then converted it again to the iphone in about two more years.
In the past 5 years, Adobe released CS4, CS5, CS6 and CC including making it 64 bit on both mac and windows. Lightroom had 3 major releases. Quite a bit was added in each version too.
Those are all much bigger and far more complex projects than PTE.
Again, and back to the topic, simple question to wnsoft: what's the cause of the delay for Mac PTE and what is being done to remedy it?
Im not the only person who has asked for a mac native version, and im sure theyre wondering whats really going on too.
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Walk into any graphics department and its mostly Macs. the PCS are over in accounting. Look at what computers people are carrying and using, its way more than 9% Mac and Im not talking about personal friends either. Most presentations and lectures I go to are given with a Mac for instance and the people i see attending conferences often have Macs. its way more than 9%.
You also have to understand what the published statistics mean before blindly citing them. For consumer market share (which is what matters for a consumer product), microsoft is actually rather low. Whats hot now are tablets and phones, not mac and windows.
What's your source for that? The major slide show programs for PC dont support Mac and the major slide show programs for Mac dont support PC. So what? AV competition isnt the only place people do slide shows either.
Another strawman, I never said mac software was superior. I pick the best tool for whatever i want to do. SOmetimes its a mac, sometimes not. Some Mac programs are better than windows and some windows programs are better than Mac. By having both systems (Macbook + PC desktop) I can choose which to use and when, or run VMware on the mac which i do too.
You were told wrong and I doubt you know anyone at the vice president level at Apple anyway. Maybe you know some people at the local Apple store though.
http://www.businessw...lt-in-hollywood
Nothing strawman about it. Many graphics professionals do use Macs. Visit any ad agency. Even Microsoft and Dell's ads are done on Macs. The last post in this thread says he's in IT sales and its 95% mac. Anecdotal to be sure but thats a far cry from 9%. Even if its half of what he claims, its still a lot.
Whether its most or not doesnt matter. what matters is it is a significant number and much more than 9%.
As for Pixar, obviously there are enough people doing video on Macs and linux to justify supporting three different platforms, not just two. Also notice that windows is listed last of the three. Usually the most popular version is listed first, not last.
Look again. The distinctive aluminum design is clear, and the Apple logo is also visible in some scenes.
Their renderfarm is linux. Whats on people's desks can be anything, really.
Not that it matters since Pixar doesn't use PTE so theyre not a potential customer. Whether they use Macs or not doesnt matter but they know that many other people use macs or they wouldn't have written Renderman for Mac.
presumably the MacBook Pro was left at the podium by the conference organizers or a previous presenter.Presumably?? Well that's convincing!
The fact there even was a Mac on the podium at a major Microsoft presentation, regardless of who used it, means they're not as rare as you want to think.
Microsoft did use
and when Ballmer introduced it on TV.He was the chairman, which I'd call head of, but if you want to argue semantics you'll have to find someone else. The point is he's not using his own products.
I dont know what their reasons are and I didnt say I write Mac software, another strawman of yours.
I'm not yapping either. Im just saying that its been years and hasnt happened and there arent any signs that it will be happening any time soon (or at all). Id like to be wrong but so far, i see nothing that shows otherwise. I asked what the cause of the delay has been but so far, no answer.
It was announced 6 years ago to be expected within a year or two, which is 4-5 years for a shipping program. If youre going to quibble over rounding off to 5, then again, you'll have to find someone else to argue.
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Sorry, but that doesn't make sense to me. A projector should show just what is on the mac laptop screen, but that was not the case. The lappy screen showed the Powerpoint starting screen, while the projector - which was connected via a DVI/VGA adapter - showed a totally unrelated image. We went looking for this image and found it in a separate folder.
A second monitor or projector can be in mirrored or duplicate mode, or it can be spanning or extended mode.
Mirrored is where both the laptop screen and projector show the same desktop, and spanning is where the entire desktop spans both monitors, with different content on each.
For presentations, its really helpful to have them be different, so the speaker can refer to notes or other info on the laptop screen, while the actual presentation is on the projector.
It was even queerer, because the laptop showed the powerpoint image in what Windows calls 'normal' mode, i.e. not maximised, with the desktop background visible behind. But the projector showed the PP start screen with this unrelated background behind, so it appears that video pages were crossed up somewhere. When the PP show started, it disappeared from the projector, but ran on the lappy.My conclusion was that the video external port was being fed different pages than was the laptop.
It was, because he had it set to do that. Thats normally how to do presentations.
I've never seen that happen with a PC, only with his late model mac - I think with a retina screen but not positive about that.windows pcs support both modes.
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that includes systems that would never buy PTE or could even run it, like netbooks and corporate systems that only run corporate softwre that the IT department approves of and nothing else.
I see people with Macs all the time, much more than 9% of the time. Half of Adobe's sales are Mac.
The number to look at is not the total, but what system people who make slide shows have, not what system a lawyer or accountant uses in their offices.
No they don't. Apple does not pay for product placement.
Movies and tv shows use Macs and iphones because theyre popular and they know that many viewers have them and can relate to the characters in the show.
Your ILM link is over ten years old and Pixar's software runs on Mac, Linux and Windows and they dont make people use VMware or parallels to run it. A lot of what they do does use custom linux software, but PTE doesnt run on linux either! Not a good example.
http://renderman.pix...enderman-studio
Here's a behind the scenes tour of Pixar and there are a lot of Macs visible
http://www.nytimes.c...ar-studios.html
and Ballmer uses a Mac on stage for his presentation
http://img.gawkerass...pg/original.jpg
And the head of HP uses a Mac
http://www.electroni...ooding.own.pcs/
While you can run PTE on a Mac using VMware or parallels (its what I do), its far from ideal. There is a lot of overhead in running a second operating system just to run a windows app and its a hassle.
There was supposed to be a Mac PTE 5 years ago and it hasnt happened. I asked why but so far no answer othr than progress is slow. As far as i can tell, its not slow, its been abandoned. It doesnt take 5 years to write a program. In that same time there has been a couple of PTE windows releases.
But, that is all missing the point. The mac would not show its programs properly on the projector, though it was ok on the mac's own screen. Clearly that's a problem with its external video port software.There is no external video port software. if you plug in a second display, whether its a projector or a monitor, you can show stuff on it. its just another screen.
the only issue is that macs have DVI or displayport and many projectors are stuck in the last century with vga, so you need an adapter, but Im sure he knew this and had the adapter.
The mac people I know make no secret about looking down on PC's. (and I'm not above enjoying the moment when their beloved mac gives them trouble!)I see more PC users taunting mac users than the other way around, such as what you say you do.
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Hang on a second, does Microsoft not make a MAC version of Powerpoint and does that not suggest that it should work? The problem described was not a Powerpoint problem, surely?
they do and it should work, but Powerpoint is awful no matter what the platform.
Keynote is worlds better. Ask anyone who has used both.
You make my point for me by being just a bit too quick to begin the defence of the Mac. As I said it was probably all down to my inexperience anyway. I know that. I am just sick and tired of the rant from Mac users who seem to think that they have some superior product. Well, demonstrate that to me in a way that will impress me and make me eat my words is all I am saying. But if you approach me and say Macs just work. Make sure there is nothing pointed and sharp within my reach. :lol:/>/>/>/>/>Mac users dont rant that they have a superior product. Thats a figment of your imagination.
Nothing is perfect and there will be glitches no matter what you get.
Those who want to find fault with anything will always find fault.
Look at what it will do, not what it wont do.
Lets take this a few stages further. Lets debate what is best Nikon or Canon, Ford, or Toyota, Vulcans or Clingons.:rolleyes:/>/>/>/>/>Easy. Nikon, Toyota, Vulcans.
(and its spelled Klingon)
I very regret that we still can't introduce a Mac version of PTE and it took much more time than we expected. Sorry!
Its been over 5 years! What is the cause of the delay?
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Last night at our camera club a member was set to show a Powerpoint presentation with his Macbook through our Dell DLP projector. The mac insisted on pulling an image out from some folder and showing that on the screen, while the mac's screen showed the Powerpoint start screen. Several mac owners tried to help, to no avail. End result, his Powerpoint show was abandoned.
His first mistake was using PowerPoint. Since he has a Mac, he should be using Keynote.
I have just come back from a simple job of copying some images from a Mac to a USB Stick or portable drive for a memorial sequence. I assumed (wrongly as it happens) that with my experience of computers it couldn't be difficult, but I gave up in the end and wrote the images to a disk. Even that didn't pop out on completion, I had to find out how to eject it. The Mac could see and read the files on the stick and the Drive, but would not let me copy those Jpegs to them.
I don't know what you did, but copying files is the same on Mac as it is on Windows.
Either drag from one place to another or copy paste and if you like unix you can do it using a command line.
To eject the USB stick (or any other removable storage), do any of: right click and pick eject, drag the icon to the dock where an eject icon awaits, pick eject from the File menu or use the command-E shortcut
As for Cd burning, that automatically ejects the disc when done, with a neat little sound to let you know its done. I really like that sound.
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As usual, Google offers a confusing amount of solutions but, not the one that tells me how to completely uninstall 'Keka'
in almost every case, uninstalling on a Mac is nothing more than drag to trash and then empty trash. why make things complex?
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Very strange! I download the show from the link on Mediafire and it played perfectly on my computer.
same here. Played fine. Nice cars too.
I have no idea how to reset the correct archive utility as the default but, I can work around this by using the 'right click' and selecting 'open with'.Select a zip file and pick Get info, then change the Open with menu to archive utility the click change all
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Sounds like it crashed when you tried to run it.What happens when you double-click the app?The PTE exe logo just flashes and nothing else happens. It should, of course, open the slide show but it doesn't
Can you create the same show on XP? If so what happens?
Have you tried making a different slideshow, maybe something very simple, like just one image, just to see what happens?
Does it have audio? There have been some problems with some audio formats.
If you want, upload it somewhere, to see if it crashes for other people.
Can I use PTE on a Mac computer?
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There is no mac version but you can run PTE in VMware or Parallels which works just fine. It can output Mac shows which run on a Mac.