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As I add text objects to my slide they always default to New Times Roman. I was wondering if it is a setting that I need to change or just not possible to where it will use whatever font I used last. Such as I am doing a show with Arial and every new text object is coming up Times Roman and I have to remember to change each one. Max

Hi, Beta 15. Report bug or Suggestion ? (moderators as you want.) Create a project. Add 4 white slide. (can be 4 times the same image.) In first image, in A&O window add a button and select action "Go to slide number" : "4". On third image in A&O window, add a text : "3" On fourth image in A&O window, add a text : "4" Run project. Project will stop on first image. that's ok. Now if you click on button, you effectively go to image 4, but with displaying also third image during transition. In some cases that's a bit strange. It would be better after to clic on button to display only fourth image with transition effect over first image; (whithout showing third image.) That's surprised me on Lin's example here : http://www.lin-evans.net/pte/fullmenudemo.zip from this topic. http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....ost&p=41681 Alain

Hello, I use a tiny tool called "NoSleep.exe" that allows to tweak around the Screensaver. I used it under NT and now under Win XP, only when I give a presentation from my laptop. There may be many other tools like it. It's practical as in many professional environments the screensaver is bundeled with re-login via smartcard to prevent unauthorized people use the PC when the logged-on user goes away for longer and often you don't have the right to disable the Windows screen saver for that (good) reason (security). But when you give a presentation and don't press a key etc (e.g. answering a longer question) the screensaver disturbs your presentation and the audience sees the re-logon dialogue. Not too professional. The tool is here http://www.geocities.com/helmi79/software/software.html description is "NoSleep! (19 KB) allows you to temporarily deactivate the screen saver and any standby feature directly from the system tray. NoSleep! is minimal in size, yet provides remote control capabilities, a full (un)installation routine and - as a bonus feature - Swatch Internet Time." I use an older version without internet time option and I don't know how the tool actually works, maybe it simulates a short "SHIFT key pressed" or something to Windows. That tool works nicely so I do not see an urgent need for that new feature, however, maybe it would be an convenient option for future PTE versions if you could tell a PTE project to "override" the screen saver while the show runs, as a further feature possibly for <x> minutes so you could e.g. run a looping presentation in the display of your shop for let's say 5 hours then allow the screen- saver to dark the screen etc. Just an idea, I would say very low importance. Volker

I'm doing a presentation at a photography conference in October this year and I have been thinking of how I am going to use PTE as a POWERPOINT type program. I see Igor is reintroducing the "[ ] Display slide for ..." option so that shows can be changed from slide to slide using a mouse or wireless pointer etc. What I thought would be useful for these types of presentations is if in the O&A window the user could select the option of either just running the animation as it stands or being able to move to each keypoint within the O&A manually during the presentation. Better still if the user could select which keypoints you could manually move to. This would mean you could be talking to your presentation and bring up points gradually e.g A slide showing key features of PTE with each feature sliding onto the page when I press the mouse button or whatever - just like you can do in powerpoint. The advantage of being able to select which keypoints you wanted to move to allows mini animations to occur between each point. Also not sure if many of you have noticed but Igor has started adding comments in the second topic line of topics on this forum about implementation dates of suggestions. Andrew

Very useful feature: the possibility of changing colours, brightness and contrast of an object between 2 keypoints, with the capability of "burning" high luminance to create effects like flashes in real time.

Wanted to be sure this made the list Can we please have icons with more than 256 colors? Thank you, jk

Hi, "Go to slide number" could be a bit improved and become easier to use even if this is not the best way to use such function : http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6730 Rather to enter number of image (I guess this is not be easy to remember of each image number when there is a lot of images in a project), a window could be open in order to display thumbnail image tray project. With this you just need to click on wanted image (thumbnail). Much more easier and faster. Here is a screen copy to illustrate improvement. Alain

Hi, "Go to slide number" action is quite interesting but from my point of view suffer of lack of efficiency. Let's say a slide show with 10 images. (Demo limitation) Imagine that at first image there is a button with "Go to slide number" 8th image. By now, you are not welcome to add or delete any image between first and 8th image! Because button link will point in absolute position in image tray (8th) and if you delete an image, link "go to slide number" will still point in 8th position; your image is now in 7th position. I can't imagine using this action (go to slide number) with a 50 images slide show with several buttons located a bit everywhere in slide show. This can become rapidly a nightmare. Except if your slide show is perfectly clear in your mind and you succeed to do it in one time. (It means without any modification : add or delete slide in project.) A better way would be to point at image name rather than at position image. By this way you do not mind to insert or delete some images and change position number images. The link follow image's name. This means when you rename an image (F2) "Go to slide name" have to be updated by the software. a bit like in web site software in order to keep valid links.(or check broken links) By now, when you add for the second time same an image (tree.jpeg) already in image tray, the new name should be "tree(1).jpeg". A bit like in window, in a folder you can't have 2 files with same name but you can have several occurence of this file with different names. I hope this will catch developpement team attention. Alain

Please bring back the comment tab in the customize slide option. Otherwise there is no way to select a group of slides and apply a common comment attribute (e.g. position, font) to them. I miss this since it was removed. thanks..

Hi, Mouse wheel, middle clic and double clic should be used in O&A window like this : - Mouse wheel : Zoom in / Zoom out. - middle clic pressed : Pan window. - double clic : Set to Auto zoom value. This would give better zoom usage in O&A window. Alain

The topic of aspect ratios has been discussed many times before but, with Version 5, I think there might be a slightly different twist. The issue arises from the different aspect ratios of monitors (e.g. my 19 inch monitor has a resolution of 1280 x 1024, 5:4) and cameras (e.g. my Nikon D80 has a resolution of 3872 x 1024, 6:4) and the standards for AV projection which are 1024 x 768, 4:3). The default setting in "Common" tab of the O&A window of Version 5 is "fit to slide". This works to constrain the width of an image to the screen width as set on "Project Options - Screen" tab. There is no way to change this default setting except on a slide by slide basis. Thus with Nikon D80 images, the choices are : Keep the original aspect ratio, thus seeing the whole image, but resulting in a black border at the top and bottom of the monitor. Manually crop each image to an aspect ratio of 5:4 and accept the loss of part of the image. Resize to, say, 1536 x 1024 and set to "Original" or "Cover slide" in the "Common tab. In Option 2 and 3, you lose some of the image but the remaining image fills the screen. Individually cropping each image is far too time consuming, thus Option 3 is my preferred choice unless I must see the whole image in which case it is Option 1. However to use Option 3, I have to set each slide individually to "Original" or "Cover Slide". Could this setting adjustment not be added into the "Screen" tab of "Project Options" as a setting which can be applied globally to all slides? Regards Jeff

I have been away from the forum for a very long time due to other priorities getting in the way (but still a continuing avid producer of PTE AVs) I hope this has not be raised elsewhere and I am repeating a query, but I could not find a reference to it. Some time ago, I had suggested that it would be very helpful to be able to hear the sound line audio when previewing via the timeline. Igor indicated that it would be incorporated very soon. Guess I thought (hoping ? ) it was going to be in Ver 5, but I just tried it using beta 12 in a show I am working with and it does not seem to be working. Is it me, or is the change still in the "hoping/planning to implement list" ?

To day, PTE load in the graphic memory all the files use in the actual slide and the next 2 slides. Would it be possible to load and decompress in the memory of the PC (but not in the graphic card memory) more slides (for instance 10 or more) when the processor doesn't work at its maximum. So it would be possible to have several short slides each after the other. It would be better for slideshows like those of Stéphane Bidouze for instance (we would earn for several slides the time PTE need to read on the hard disk and the time to decompress jpg or wngfx files).

I don't know if it has already been discussed (I don't have time any more to read each post as I did before ) but it appears to me that the speed option feature could be slightly changed : I think it would be nice if the speed option would be applied by default on each section - whatever the option choosed (linear, smooth, accelerate, deccelerate, custom) and whatever the number of keypoints the objects has. Each section would be separated by default and the speed option choosed in the O/A window applied to each section. It would prevent a lot of clicks to seperate each section and to apply speed options. The user would only enter the "setting up speed options" window only to glue sections and apply different settings to those sections. What do you think ?

What I would like the most in PTE is the use of true masks : Those masks would be a new kind of object in PTE. Images are displayed through the mask which is associated to them (mask = father object). The display of the images is constrained inside the masks. It would allow to make very quickly and very easily nice (animated or not) compositions. Adda made a very interesting demo with a competitive product : http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewshow.h...&alb=127550 Please have a look at the image attached to see what I mean. Adda, if you can help me to explain and promote the suggestion...

Keep the classical list of slides but to have the ability to switch to an other kind of view : multiple tracks, something that would look like what is done in Video Editor like Premiere by example.

I love the ability to be able to do what you want with text but it takes a lot of time to make complex effects. It would be nice to have ready-to-use animated effects for text.

What about the ability to include video files ? It's already possible to do it with Granot's utility but it's not very flexible. Would be nice to be able to do it directly in PTE with all the P/Z/R features.

I would like to be able to open a spread sheet layout that list all images and setting so we could quickly go through and make changes to values

Hi, Is there a way somewhere in PTE to set default theme button ? I mean when I add a button I'd like button theme set at a predetermined theme. Alain

Hi, Many years ago, (at PTE 3.80 ) I did an interactive diaporama with many buttons and go to slide actions. When I finished it I was totally fed up ot PTE. I'm still thinking about this amount of job. (should say waste of time with 3.80 PTE but quite fun anyway). In V3.80 there was some tools (no perfect) but existing tools to align "Text" and "Button". I didn't find these tools in V5.00. So here is my suggestion about what I really missed in V3.80. (if one day I got idea to do same interactive diaporama.) when several buttons are selected, with a right clic to get : "Align" - Top (all buttons are aligned at the highest button - Left (all buttons are aligned at button on far left. - Right (......... - Bottom (........ This is only fields (Pan H, Pan V) to ajust from another button PanH orPanV ? some others sugegestions could be done : - resize all selected button (or text) at biggest, smallest for high and wide size. - copy properties button (or text) and apply it to all selected button (text). I agree these additionnals functions are more suitable for "Button" object. This would save quite a lot of time when using "Button" object. Here is a screen to illustrate. Regards Alain

Thank you! Excuse me, that I still didn't reply on your suggestions and ideas! When we prepare release candidate in week or so and solve last several problems I'll begin reply on your messages. And please don't worry, here all ideas well placed in one section and I'll regularly visit and read your suggestions.

I wonder whether it would be possible to add a Keyline option in O&A, with options to either keep the Keyline constant at a set number of pixels, or to have it expand or contract an equal amount, in relation to how the slide is zoomed in or out?

I've found in Pte the best graphic engine and the most easy animation interface in slideshow software, however pte isn't only a picture software, we are in the audiovisual world. Actually it's very very long and difficult to synchronise objects in the animation window: there's no sound!!!! Why????? Only one audio track, it's very poor, no possibility to change sequences, no flexibility in sound fading and timing... I don't talk about sound editing and directx or vst effects , I use Wavelab for that; but it's absolutely primordial to insert real-time fading, scrubbing and overs basics functions, without that, it's a big waste of time and archaic edition... With good implementation of sounds tracks and flexibility, Pte will be the best slideshow software. Very important also is the capability of playing animated gifs and vidéos as objects. That's all!!!

While the new text macros using JPEG EXIF info are a welcome addition to version 5, it would be nice to use data stored in the IPTC fields as well. Many professional photographers, myself included, use the IPTC information to store keywords, captions, etc. I have one web page creation program (Arles Image Web Page Creator) that allows the use of either type of data (EXIF or IPTC) for automatic comments. I wonder if this would be possible in a later version of the program. It would save an extra step of transferring the comments from IPTC to EXIF fields. Thanks for considering this.