PTE will change the order of slides when applying style to multiple slides

[willemx]

When applying a style to multiple slides that are not a contiguous series, the order of the slides will be changed by PTE.

To reproduce:

- add 4 slides to the timeline: S1, S2, S3 and S4 in this order

- select only S2 and S4

- apply a style to this selection

PTE will apply the style to S2 and S4, but will also change the order of the slides to S1, S2, S4, S3.

[Igor]

Hi,

This is the correct behavior of PTE AV Studio, as designed.
However, you can preserve the original slide order if you apply a style that requires 1 image. In the style settings, tick the option "Keep slide order" option and click the Apply button.

[willemx]

OK thanks.

Just out of curiosity: what is the reason to change the slide order when applying a single image style to multiple slides?

[Igor]

A complex style from a group of images can create a series of slides. These slides must be grouped together (for example, the Collage style or Photo Story style), so the program combines them into a group after applying them.

Initially, we didn't anticipate a simple case (1 image style creates 1 slide). This general behavior existed from version 8.0 up to 10.5.
To avoid changing the program's behavior, we added a new option "Keep slide order" option starting in version 11.0 for simple 1 picture styles.