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In making these suggestions, I am assuming 7.5 is the same as 7.07 in what I'm suggesting. Last night I used the Publish for IPhone/IPad function. In view of the proliferation of such devices, should this function now be re-named Publish for Smart Phone & Tablet? The last couple of shows I've made I've been trying to improve my knowledge of the functions in the O&A screen, in the Properties tab the directional arrows for the pan controls are not logically arranged & because of unfamiliarity with them invariably press the wrong arrow for the direction I want to move, if they can be moved to the left & right <> orientation & the pan up & pan down reversed, I'm sure it would help new & confused users. Yachtsman1

Sometimes i need to adjust objects parameters to accomodate the final result of very complex slides. I feel the need to place the time cursor before or after the key point and still being able to edit key point attributes. I currently need to select the key point, blindly change parameters values then move the time cursor in the interested location. And iterate more and more until good result is reached. With complex structures it's really annoying. Maybe something like CTRL+click over a key point to enable a "sticky editor" mode and being able to see how my edits reflect on the time point i'm currently on? Umberto

It would be great if PTE had a circle geometric primitive. I can simulate a circle by rotating object rotated 1 degree, then copying object, and pasting 180 times. It is a very accurate circle but PTE must rotate 180 objects to create. Zoom effect slower due to large number of objects that must be scaled and transformed instead of 1 object. Other method might be with use of circular mask but it would still be nice to have a simple circle object with lower computing requirements. Test circle created by rectangle rotation. Thanks, Tom

I feel that a "slide description" tag would be useful in the slide caption text. Sometimes i don't have the correct description in the image metadata and don't want to insert it for various reasons. Greetings! Umberto

I have looked at Picture To Exe and I'm impressed. But it is not what I'm looking for. Like many others I want to be able to put my slide shows on the web - I have hosted space to upload to. I don't want to email them or post a DVD. Far better to make something which only requires the user to click on a link. At the moment I have used Adobe Bridge. The current Adobe Bridge web offerings are still mostly based on Flash, with only a very basic HTML version. As Flash dies out, a good web based HTML5 solution is needed more and more. So you have a marvellous opportunity. All you have to do is write a new back-end that generates HTML5 instead of a .EXE - everything else remains the same. You will have a new product and will be twice as rich. The extraordinary thing is that as far as I can see there is NO competition yet! You could be first. What do you think?

I would like to save the set of properties of objects from "Objects and animation" window as a (custom) style. And then apply the same (or another) saved style to a new object. Like text in editors users can define their own set properties as a style and then reuse it or change the style and all objects with the same style change as well. At the moment the templates feature or simple copy and paste enables to clone the same set of properties and replacing text and/or images applies the same properties to a new object. It would be real benefit being able to edit the style and correspondingly change the properties of all objects with the same style in the same slideshow or (re)use the same styles in another slideshow. For example, I create an educational slideshow with explanatory text appearing on slides. However, after completing the slideshow, It appears, that there is need to change lets say font or fine tune some animations of all text. Or there appears need to fine tune some animation properties of picture (video) objects on several slides. Some of such tasks can be done with editing the pte text file directly. Some changes are difficult of impractical in this way. Having possibility to create, edit and apply styles when seeing it on monitor, would be really helpful.

will Pictures to Exe ever be available for tablets?

Greetings, I would like to have file extensions of videos (and perhaps still images) to be included in the file names in the Timeline View and the Slides View. I understand it might be a rare circumstance when you would have similar video file (or still image) names with different extensions, but I have run across this possibility. I have attached a screen shot example of this problem in the Timeline View. Perhaps the best way to handle this is to have it as a Preference setting to allow extensions to be shown or not shown. This could be applied to still images, too. Thanks... Gary

I miss a function to easily offset forward/backward all (or single) audio tracks with all the audio clips that they contain. This would allow me to re-accomodate all synchronized audio when i insert a new slide at the beginning of the project. Moreover, it would be cool to offset all audio clips that begin after the moved/inserted slide (maybe with option to deactivate the feature) Umberto

After installing version 7.5 on Windows 8 I have (as expected) a new app (PicturesToExe 7.5) pinned to my Windows 8 start tiles. Because the start tiles are new in Windows 8 the installer must be aware of the version of Windows it is installing to, I would think. But during the installation I see the option not to create a start menu item. This may confuse some users because in Windows 8 there is no start menu any more (OK there are some 3rd-party tools out there to add an "old-style" start menu but the installer shouldn't rely on the user having one of these installed). Wouldn't it be better (if this is possible) to take away that option completely when installing to Windows 8? Please note the issue of terminology difference between Windows 8 and some earlier versions of Windows. Windows 8 does not have a start menu. It does have a "Start Screen" with tiles but this is not the same thing as what Windows users will understand by the term "start menu."

A have projects made and saved in PTE 7.0,with music clips atached to specific images, and now when I opened them in 7.5 beta14, all the clips appear in the timeline and in project options. Miracle? MUR

Igor I have only just started using PTE 7.5 for reasons you know. I felt the need today to be able to nudge a selected wave file a very small amount one way or the other. Picking it up with the cursor to drag and drop it in place had me fiddling one way and then the other. A Ctrl+ Cursor Control Key Arrow would be a godsend. Later, I could have done with the same thing with an image on the timeline Is that something worth considering at some stage. I have that ability in Camtasia and use it a lot.

When the user chooses to create an exe, there would be an option to automatically resize the pictures depending on the resolution width he chooses (1024 px, 1280 px, 1600 px, HD, etc...). Of course, if the user doesn't choose the option, the pictures are kept as they are. What do you think of this idea ?

PTE (PicturesToExe) ables to convert all media files to an Executable desire structure file ie. I can convert all All Audio video and All pictures format to an exe file , If Wnsoft Team can support some new formats in pte (i.e : *.doc /*.txt/ *.pdf/ *cad/*.zip/*.rar/*.pptx/*xlsx/,...) in this case Why just say PicturesToExe , Doesn't it ? Hope To be benefit With thanks

PTE should take into account MONITOR PROFILES , which have been generated for the monitor by products like Datacolor Spyder , Xrite I1 Display Pro etc. This is required to view the pictures in exactly the way they were overworked in products like Adobe PS CS5 etc. EXE-Files should behave in the same manner - if there are issues with feasibility or performance , a workaround could be to incorporate the Monitor profile during EXE-generation . I am convinced that PTE would benfit a lot from the proposed extensions . Thanks - Paul

Hi, Perhaps this should be posted in the MAC area but it concerns both OS's. As a MAC user I am finding the integration through Parallels (there are other brands!) so successful sometimes I am not certain which side of the house I am in and on occasions I find that I have a PTE icon on my desktop or in my downloads and have no graphical way of identifying whether it will open on the MAC or the PC. Would it be possible to have a different icon for each? Perhaps MAC on the MAC version and leave the PC icon as it is. John

Igor, Could we use UP and DOWN Arrows to move a Highlighted Audio Track up and down?? The use of these arrows is quite common in other software applications. DG P.S. I just noticed that Peter has mentioned a similar suggestion.

Hi, Would it be possible to enable navigation to an external editor FROM O&A Object List as we can from Slide List. I for one would find this a great help. Regards John

I've just had a think about this suggestion & don't think it is practical. However, on my Russian Cruise shows I am superimposing a feature slide above a common image. I add the common image the usual way & insert the feature image in the O&A page by selecting add image. I am using this tecnique where the feature image is an odd size & I don't wish to animate it. In the slide list at the bottom of the screen, the base image is listed not the feature image, would it be possible to have both image titles, or preferably the feature image. In the screen shot, the two feature images have the base image title, I would like to see the feature image title. Yachtsman1 V7.07.

In Object&Animation when slide(s) are synchronized with sound(s) in Beta11 (and previous) no similar "mute" option exists as track timeline, a bit (more?) annoying and distracting when focused on image(s) Da Campos

In 7.07 when I want to work on a video clip, I have to right click the clip, then select "convert" which opens the video editor, where I can do both functions. IMO this should be re-named "Edit Video Clip" or "Edit". New or infrequent users may get confused by the terminology, "Edit" covers both functions. Sorry if this has already been adressed. Yachtsman1.

Hi, Unless you are very well organised with your preparation for building sequences it can become troublesome when creating a Back Up to Zip folder. I refer to duplicate file names. I'm afraid that I am often guilty of this as I get ideas and head off in different directions pulling in images and objects from all over the place. My basic filing of original files is good (I use Aperture) but when I pull copies into my working folder structure (which eventually gets deleted) things can get out of hand. My way of working is that when researching an idea I copy images that I think I may need into this area (it is also structured with folders) so I have virtually every likely area covered. I then perform any Photoshop work from there. At various stages mainly towards the end of the project I consolidate by creating a B/U to ZIP. Occasionally I find that I have a file with the same name in two separate locations. PTE tells me that and that is a great help and totally necessary. However it does NOT tell me in which slides these objects are. When I am working on a sequence with in excess of 100 slides many with multiple objects it becomes difficult to locate the offending files to rename them. Would it be possible for PTE to also list this information, after all it clearly has the data. I know that many years ago somebody produced a program that could provide this data plus much more but for me that was OTT and an additional process. Cheers John

Hi, I don't know how others use this facility but I use it fairly frequently and find that if I don't remember to activate it as I add objects I can get into all sorts of trouble when later selecting an object in the image frame rather than the list. For me it would be great if this could be selected by de-fault. What do others think? John

Igor It would be useful to enable or disable snapping of a clip at the cursor... Il me semblerait utile de pouvoir activer ou désactiver le magnétisme des clips audio sur la ligne rouge du curseur, pour une plus grande précision ...

Igor, My suggestion is to be able to expand the O&A's play-line as we can do in the Timeline with the shift/mousewheel. This is especially helpful when you have a very long slide duration and you have to deal with keyframe placement or adjustments. When you enter keyframes in a slide with a very long duration, they can be sitting on top of each other because the entire length of the slide is compressed into a space that normally would have a duration of only a few seconds. Being able to expand the O&A's play-line will make it visually easier to deal with multiple keyframes. Gary