Lin Evans Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Suggest recognizing .gif as a valid format for masks.... Right now only jpg and png are automatically detected. Sometimes a GIF file can be advantageous because with masks color is not needed - just B&W and even though one may "detect" no color in a PNG visually, there may still be a good deal of RAM tied up with color unless the file is desaturated. Gif files only having 256 color possibilities are almost always smaller and "sometimes" make a great mask. I think the majority of JPD's recent masks are gif files...Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fh1805 Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Lin,If JPD's masks are GIF files then PTE already accepts GIF files as masks; or am I missing something?regards,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted February 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 Hi Peter,The operant word is "recognize." When you click on "add a mask" the formats are "bmp, jpeg, jpg and png." You can add a gif "if" you already know the file name or write it down, but the program doesn't "recognize" gif files in that it doesn't automatically "display" gif files in the folder or on the drive even though it will let you use one if you type in the name.Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fh1805 Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 Lin,Ah! Now I understand what you are wanting. Thanks to you and JPD I understand the principles of how the masks are used and how they work but I have not yet done any serious practical work with them. However, I'm in complete agreement with you on this suggestion. regards,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picsel Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Lin,Ah! Now I understand what you are wanting. Thanks to you and JPD I understand the principles of how the masks are used and how they work but I have not yet done any serious practical work with them. However, I'm in complete agreement with you on this suggestion. regards,PeterHello Peter,I would add some more comments to what Lin said about .gif for masks. 1) if you know the name of the gif you can succeed to load the gif as a mask but that does not work each time. Sometimes to times you can get a blue screen error window2) same thing happens sometimes if you want to load a .gif image as an object even if the gif format is recognisedThe test can be made for example with JPD Layer_15.gif Is there some explanation?Daniel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Daniel,I had the same problem earlier today.I have sort of come to the conclusion that PTE likes Compuserve GIFs (Save As) and does not like some of the variants offered by Save for the Web.DaveG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picsel Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Daniel,I have sort of come to the conclusion that PTE likes Compuserve GIFs (Save As) and does not like some of the variants offered by Save for the Web.DaveGThanks Dave, I will try on my side but in any case that cannot solve the problem for the masks format. It would be interesting to know why the gif format was not taken into account for masks by PTE developpers.Daniel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 likely because the gif protocol is not open source -or similar reasoning - think Igor made that statement years ago that is why we have to been able to use gifsken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 likely because the gif protocol is not open source -or similar reasoning - think Igor made that statement years ago that is why we have to been able to use gifskenbut according to this articlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gifThe US LZW patent expired on June 20, 2003.[16] The counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expired on June 18, 2004, the Japanese counterpart patents expired on June 20, 2004 and the counterpart Canadian patent expired on July 7, 2004.[16] Consequently, while Unisys has further patents and patent applications relating to improvements to the LZW technique,[16] the GIF format may now be used freely.ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picsel Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 likely because the gif protocol is not open source-or similar reasoning...the GIF format may now be used freely.Sorry Ken but I do not reach your point, that does not explain why the gif format is not allowed for masks.Daniel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Sorry Ken but I do not reach your point, that does not explain why the gif format is not allowed for masks.Daniel.WELL write to Igor then and ask himhe has a hot link after his signature to send a noteken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 WELL write to Igor then and ask himhe has a hot link after his signature to send a notekenfrom help file ofPicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0 + Added support of PNG images files (including PNG with partial semi-transparency).+ You can quickly remove slide(s) from Slide list simply dragging them back to File list.+ You can quickly press Enter to show "Customize slide" window for selected slide(s).+ Main image of a slide can be transparent GIF or transparent PNG now.that is all i can find on gifs Igor will have to come to your rescueken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Lin,Suggest recognizing .gif as a valid format for masks....I agree. Done in v5.6.1.On this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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