PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.6 Beta 10

[Igor]

PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.6 Beta 10

Download link:

http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe_beta.zip (6 MB)

What new in this Beta:

+ Added auto-updater of Youtube/Vimeo settings for uploading of created MP4 video to Internet.

+ Added support of new 16:9 format of video on Youtube.

+ Added "Virtual size of slide" parameters as alternate way to set aspect ratio of slide (Project options | Screen tab). It helps in work with "Size/Position" tool window in "Object and animation" editor.

! Re-activated functions: "Wait for a key press or mouse click to show next slide", "Loop this slide".

* Fixed small bug with Ctrl+X when you worked in text field of Text/Button object.

What new in version 5.6:

+ Added export of slideshow as a video. (See Main menu -> Create)

- Export of HD video for playback on PC, Mac.

- Export of video for iPhone/iPod.

- Publish online on Youtube.

- Publish online on Vimeo with HD quality.

+ New 3D transition effects between slides:

- Added "Flip 3D" effect.

- Added "Swap 3D" effect.

- Reworked "Curling of page 3D" effect. Set large radius parameter to get completely new effects.

+ Improvements in Objects and Animation window:

- Mask objects for creating of special effects. You can apply several Masks to one image object.

- Music and sounds when you click "Play" button for preview.

- Added "Anti-shimmering (mipmapping)" option for Image and Text objects. This option prevents appearing of shimmering when object has zoom from small size to large size.

- Improved view of "Action on mouse click" list.

- Added new action "Run slideshow".

- Added "Pause" button.

! "Original size" mode of objects has been replaced. Now use "Fixed size of slide (in pixels)" mode in Project options | Screen tab. And "Size/position in pixels" button in Common tab of object properties.

+ Added "Virtual size of slide" parameters as alternate way to set aspect ratio of slide (Project options | Screen tab). It helps in work with "Size/Position" tool window in "Object and animation" editor.

+ Added new commands "Run Slideshow" and "Run Slideshow with Return" to Project options | "More" tab and as an action for objects. This option highly recommended if you want to start another slideshow from current one and for building of menu. It will guarantee flawless start of next slideshow from current one. In fact a series of slideshows will work as one large slideshow that provides optimal memory usage.

! "Run application" options has moved to the last page of Project options (More tab).

+ Added "Color outside slide area" option (Project options | Screen tab). By default if you run widescreen slideshow (16:9) on 4:3 display you see black strips around the slide. Now you can choose this color.

+ Added menu on Create button.

+ Faster rewinding of slides in created EXE file and preview.

+ Added "Crypt images/music against extracting from EXE file" option. See Main menu | View | Advanced options. (Enabled by default).

+ Improved installer of PicturesToExe, multi-lingual interface.

+ Fully rewritten shadow for objects. Now it has correct view for a long text object. And better visual quality.

+ "Protection of slideshow" options has moved to the last page of Project options (Advanced tab).

! "Disable F1 key to show help window" has moved to "Customize help window" dialog (Main menu | Project).

+ Various improvements.

* Fixed an old bug (since v5.5) when after renaming of a main image in Slide list or File panel MiniPlayer didn't display renamed image.

* Fixed an old bug (since v5.1) when changing of display resolution, locking of PC or Sleep mode applied during encoding of video caused visual defects in created video file.

[xahu34]

... Added "Virtual size of slide" parameters as alternate way to set aspect ratio of slide (Project options | Screen tab). It helps in work with "Size/Position" tool window in "Object and animation" editor....

Good decision, I hope that this will make Jean-Pierre a little bit more happy!?

Regards,

Xaver

[xahu34]

Hi,

An additional remark to my previous post. The new feature resolves the inconsistency that I mentioned here.

Best regards,

Xaver

[jjf]

Wow!

With the new 3D effects, the “Run slideshow” after the last slide and the fact that the “Wait for a key press or mouse click to show next slide” funktion is back in Beta 10, this program is great when you´re a landscape photographer and want to make slideshows wich combine commented manually slideshows with automated slideshows with music in the same presentation.

Thanks!!

A question:

I´m in the process of buying a laptop. In the spec. for PTE you´ll need a graphiccard with 128MB memory. Does that mean shared memory or that the card should have 128MB?

[xahu34]

...for PTE you´ll need a graphiccard with 128MB memory. Does that mean shared memory or that the card should have 128MB?

jjf,

you should avoid the shared memory concept; buy a machine with a graphics system having at least 256 MB of separate video memory.

Best regards,

Xaver H.

Munich

[Ken Cox]

FROM THE FORUM

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....hl=ASUS++laptop

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....amp;#entry54617

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....amp;#entry45382

ken

[Ken Cox]

Abdol

please post your suggestions in the suggestions section

ken

[Ken Cox]

see

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showforum=9

ken

[Adda]

Hi Igor!

A project, I created and modified in Beta 1-9 works not with beta 10.

I can't do a preview.

And if I create an exe, the pc crashes.

Best regards

Andreas

[Adda]

Hi Tom!

"Repeat show until ESC is pressed"

Yes, that's the bug.

Thank You!!

Best regards

Andreas

[Igor]

PteViewer5.exe Preview application (307 KB) does not like "Repeat show until ESC is pressed" option. I must use task manager to end Project1.exe.

I'm sorry about this bug! It will be fixed in Beta 11.

[cottage]

Igor, Installed Beta 10 only to see if the new IPhone/IPod video creation option worked. It certainly did !! Perfectly. Now I can take my PTE presentations anywhere. Great feature, thank you !!

Regards,

Bill

[Lin Evans]

Hi Igor,

Where do we find choices for upload to Youtube (or are there any)?

I just tested and it only uploaded a low quality video with no choice for high quality visible. I thought that the changes would allow uploading a higher quality MP4 so that viewers would have a choice on Youtube??

Best regards,

Lin

[Hawk]

Igor

5.6_beta10

Bug in interface with Vertical view and Classic View

Vertical View – If the vertical handles that move the Mini Player and Slide List left or right is moved to the far right, you cannot get back – ( Slide List as Thumbnails checked ) ( Slide box checked )

I had to re-install Beta 10 twice.

You may want to also check out Classic View horizontal handles for Mini Player and Slide View both with "Timeline" and "Slide" boxes activated.

[Igor]

Lin,

We'll check this point with quality of video on Yoputube. Thanks.

[uuderzo]

I know this should be filed in the ideas forum,

but maybe it can be viewed also like a small "bug"?

I have a menu that shows all the menu items floating

over a scrolling map. The scroll is 120 seconds length

from bottom-right to top-left.

After all the map has panned i wish to repeat the

pan from the start.

I discovered that if I set the "loop this slide" option, the

pan restarts but it's jerky because there is no

fading from the end of the slide to the new start.

Instead of setting "loop this slide", if i set "repeat show until ESC is pressed"

i achieve my result, since my menu is a single slide and

with this option i obtain the fading at each repeat.

But... I would really appreciate an option that will enable

the fading also in the "loop this slide" mode. So i can build

a menu with sub-menu slides and an animation on each slide that can

be faded at each repeat of the slide.

I think this should not be too hard to insert into next beta.

What do you think?

Regards.... Umberto.

[jjf]

FROM THE FORUM

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....hl=ASUS++laptop

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....amp;#entry54617

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....amp;#entry45382

ken

Thanks "Ken Kox" and "xahu34" for your answers.

[JPD]

Good decision, I hope that this will make Jean-Pierre a little bit more happy!?

I just send to Igor a mail in which I try to explain how the initial problem about Original mode can be solved.

I will be happy when the use of original mode will be the same as before, nobody had problem with it, and since we have the definition of format in pixels, it's now very simple to do :

.........................Only four "IF" function and a two divisions more, that's all.

[Igor]

Lin,

I noticed that sometimes newly added video on Youtube appears in low-quality and then later in hi-quality. Sometimes both versions appear quickly in several minutes.

Umberto,

It's not simple to do. Definitely not in this version, sorry.

[Igor]

AbdolReza,

Please could you post for me only bugs and problems you've found in v5.5-5.6?

It will help me quickly read and fix these problems.

And all suggestions and what can be improved in a separate topic in this sub-forum:

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showforum=9

Thank you in advance!

[fh1805]

Hi AbdolReza,

In a PTE sequence no slide exists in isolation from the other slides. Each slide shares a transition with the slide that comes before it and with the slide that follows it. So, if you ask PTE to preview your sequence from, let us say, slide C, PTE must show you slide B first in order to then show you the transition from slide B to slide C. This is not a bug in PTE. It is how it has to be in order to show you exactly how slide C comes into view after slide B.

I hope this helps you to understand what is happening.

regards,

Peter