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I wish to suggest a feature that would greatly facilitate the sorting of slides in the Slide List. I would like to be able to highlight a consecutive group of slides, and collapse them into a single "box" in the Slide List (perhaps via a right-click option). That would preserve the order within the box (of a group that has been carefully sequenced), and allow the box to be moved around, just like a single slide. A right-click option on the box would expand the box contents and restore the display of individual slides. I would be happy to leave it to Igor to decide such matters as: how to give a name to a box how to show a box in thumbnail view and in table view whether boxes would be preserved during a save whether nesting of boxes could be allowed - I would use that feature if it were available. Igor, thank you for considering this request. Ken T (aplman)

I still lament the removal of the "Unsorted" option for the display of the File List. I use PTE for shows of my travels. I find arranging slides into a meaningful sequence is more difficult, more tedious, than it used to be. Here's why. I have various ways of sorting image files into a desired sequence (outside of PTE), and I can then drop those image files into a newly created folder on a FAT32 drive, where the directory entries remain in the right sequence. I used to be able to have PTE's File List present those files in "Unsorted" order. It was then a trivial matter to drop them (all, or a batch) into the Slide List in the desired order. Since it must surely be a very small programming task to restore the "Unsorted" option, may we PLEASE have it restored? Grateful thanks ... Ken T (aplman)

May I request please that we be given an option to display, in the File List, the date/time the picture was taken, rather than the last modification date/time of the picture file? That would be much more useful in sorting out images, especially in travel shows. Ken T (aplman)

I have a question to the function "text comment" in the defaults of the "Project options". If I insert template "<%MainImg.Exif.Time%>", then the time of the last change (last time I saved the file). But I need the Original time of taking the pictures. Can someone tell me the correct code? "%MainImg.Exif.TimeOriginal%" or "%MainImg.Exif.OriginalTime%" produces no correct result. Best regards Adda

One thing which might be quite useful is to add "opacity" to the background image feature. Some time ago, as I remember, when a background image was universally applied to a slideshow, the image actually "appeared" in the Objects List and could be manipulated for each slide. With the later versions the ability to add a universal background image does not result in it being visible on a layer in the Objects list any longer. There are, of course, advantages and disadvantages to doing it this new way - perhaps more advantages than not, but it would really be nice if the "opacity" of the background image could be adjusted universally. By adding this capability to the Screen Tab, then background images could be made less "dramatic" right in PTE without having to manipulate them in Photoshop or other image editor. I believe that more frequently than not, a user might want a somewhat muted background rather than a normal image. Generally, when I use an image as a background and place it as a layer on the Objects list, I apply some transparency to tone it down and often add a pure white layer beneath. Actually, what would be perfect would be the ability to not only be able to adjust the "opacity" of the background image, but to be able to have "2" background images placed on separate layers and be able to adjust opacity for each. This would, for example, allow the user to use a pure "white" background on the lower layer and by adjusting its opacity, make a very pleasing combination with the image above. What I sometimes do now is to "mix" two images in PTE this way and screen capture the result to use as a background image. But how nice would it be to be able to do this all right in PTE? Lin

Igor I have mentioned this before, so forgive me for raising it again, but we have just had a slide show posted called Amalfi Coast. The author made it at 1024*768, but of course when I view the show on my 1920*1200 screen, the image quality is not good. Is there not anyway that this can be addressed so that when a smaller slide show is made its not automatically expanded to fill larger resolution monitors. Anyone viewing this slide show who didn't realise what caused this may believe that PTE's picture quality is not that good.

Mute on O&A I think great feature(already wrote) when make media in O/A mute temporarily music/sound/comments of a clip Da Campos

Hello all, In preferences (7.5.2), one can change the colour of the waveform (green is the default), which is great. The line indicating the position on the timeline which goes through the slide and audio is red and clearly visible. If one clicks on an image in timeline view a thin green line indicates the position of the start of the slide on the audio track. Is it possible to make this line another colour so it stands out better from the background (or do I need new eyes)? Thanks for your help. Jeff

When I decide to make a new Pte project, I write of summary (or minimal screenplay) that I want: so images, a lot music etc before running final exe or at this time video for publishing on line. But is a good idea the possibility (already wrote) of print to entire project in sort of preview, on sheet for adjust without other. To print or report the screenplay of project inside, from, Pte. Da Campos

Hi for next v 8.0 I think a good idea a plugin from Pte to LR, and viceversa. As Proshow5 Da Campos

Hi for next v 8.0 I think a good idea a plugin from Pte to LR, and viceversa Da Campos

Any chance of including a Save or Copy function so that viewers of a slideshow can have the ability to save a photo/slide from the show to their computers? I know a Copy function was available in older versions of PTE but later omitted presumably because of issues. I just get a few requests from viewers of my slideshows that are not computer savvy, as to how they can "download" a copy of a slide to their computers. Thank you. Jack

After having made and saved a complicated transition, we are able to edit the .ptef file and modify the transition. Then, we can SAVE it. Is it possible to add a button " SAVE AS " to create a NEW transition file (with the modifications) instead of just replace the previous one ? Thanks - Jean-Cyprien

1 - When we use the circle shape, with the Gate Standard Transition, it is possible to change the center of this circle. Could it be possible to do the same modifications with the diamond and the rectangle transtions ? 2 - In the same spirit, could it be possible to changes the position of the Gates ? Thanks Jean-Cyprien

Sometimes when we work with several PTE objects - at roughly the same time - using keypoints (PRZ or opacity), we would like to be able to work only on some specific objects, and ignore the other, by not seeing them. Similarly, to compare two (or more) different ways of animation, we use several copies of the same object, with different solutions (PRZ, opacity, position of the keypoints...). But only one object must be visible. Currently it is possible - but not always - to use the box "Show front side" of the "3D parameters" window. But this window is visible only for one object at the same time. Would it be possible to have a box before the name of each object, which would allow us to hide or see this object, in the same way as it is possible to do it with the layers in Photoshop ? To hide or see every object would be very fast, and we could permanently know which are the visible (or not) objects. Thanks in advance

Sometimes I need my show to play backward when I press PageUp and I want the transition effect to change respectively. Say, I'm simulating a real book and choose "Curling of page" from right to left. But when I turn pages backward I need them to curl from left to right. Another example - I'm simulating a film-strip and choose effect "Push" from bottom to top. But if I decide to look at the previous frame again I want effect to push from top to bottom.

Please add back the Cut and Paste hotkeys as well as the Send to Top and Send to Bottom keys. Also missing from the version I am using is the slider to make the slide list thumbnails larger or smaller. When trying to put together a slide show with at least 100 slides the drag and drop with no ability to make the slides smaller is just way too time consuming and cumbersome. Every time I try to put together a slide show now I just get frustrated and angry!

I personally would like to be able to press the arrow key on the keyboard to go forward to the next image while working on sizing images. Moving the mouse to the top of the page and clicking the arrow to go to the next image is more time consuming.

I have occasionally wished that I could have more control over opacity with time, in much the same way as is available for position, zoom etc, rather than just a linear effect. Is that possible?

I'm in the process of preparing a series of tutorials for seniors on computor basics. I'm in the midle of one which uses an MP4 video clip of 7 minutes. I want to add an image (shift key) at 1m 49 seconds in the O&A screen, when I've completed adding the image, if I press play, the clip reverts to the beginning so that I have to watch the first 1m 49 seconds to judge if the image is correctly placed. I know I can watch this in the mini player & position where I want the clip to start, but it would be nice to do this in the O&A screen. I'm using 7.07 so if this has already been taken care of, please forget what I've said. Yachtsman1.

1) I would like my presentation to stop at a given slide, where I have defined a button with action 'next slide'. I do not want the presentation to go forward until the user presses the button. How can I do this? I am able to get the presentation to stop at the slide by customizing the slide and selecting either 'loop this slide' or 'wait for a keypress to show next slide' But both of these options still allow the presentation to go forward to the next slide if the user presses the keyboard key. Is there a way to force the user to press my online button to move forward? I know I can set the project options/control tab to uncheck 'permit control of show using keyboard'. But this still allows the show to move forward (after it has stopped on the slide with the button) if the user presses the right arrow key. 2) similarly, I want to have the first slide in my presentation as instructions to the person watching it, with some buttons on that page. And I don't want the presentation to move forward until the user presses an online button (no action if they press a keyboard key). The only way I've found to do this is to create a separate, one slide presentation with the buttons, and set the project options "when show ends keep last slide in show on screen". Now if the user presses a keyboard key, it does not move forward to the next slide (because there is no next slide). But this is not an elegant solution. Plus it means that I need to distribute to the audience to be exceed files instead of just one. Is there a better approach I should be using?

Igor, How difficult would it be to make the Canvas Controls change per Key Frame? DG

It would be fine if PTE would provide speaker support as it is offered by the well-known German/Austrian competitors. First, it would be fine if we could declare audio clips as synchronous or asynchronous, independently. So in cases when the show is stopped (because of a speaker wants to make a live comment) an asynchronous clip would go on playing (e.g. as background for the live comment). With the present tools (e.g. envelope) it would be easy to program a crossfade from the synchronous audio to the asynchronous audio just before the time point when the show is to be stopped. As the speaker's time cannot be predicted we need a mechanism for the crossfade back to the synchronous audio at the unpredictable point of time when the speaker has finished and has re-started the show. It may also be fine if we could place stop points anywhere on the timeline, and if asynchronous clips could run in a loop. Regards, Xaver

Greetings, I have suggested in the past that the Video Player Nav Bar needs an 'Esc' icon. If you give a PTE show in the 'exe' format to someone not familar with PTE, the person might not know to use the 'Esc' key to stop or interrupt the playing of the show. But today, I went to a computer store to test some PTE shows on the Windows Surface Pro. After a show played for a show while, I wanted to stop the show and try another one. After 4 salesmen tried to close the show using the touch features, we figured the only way was to attach the keyboard to get to the Esc key. So it looks like it would be a good thing to add an Esc icon to the Video Player Nav Bar to make it easier to close a PTE show on a touch machine, too. Gary

I think it would be nice so users would not have to upload 2 versions of slideshow. See Eric's ISP quota posting. Possible Solutions: 1. Windows and Mac free player download that can play slideshow data file. 2. Windows and Mac players with single data file in zip file. 3. Windows and Mac applications that convert to other format. I think I like solution 2 the best but maybe not possible. Also must consider slideshow creator not wanting format change. Thanks, Tom