Fwd: Finally figured out what's wrong - Re: [missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: SplashData Support Request

Thu Oct 12 23:21:13 PDT 2006

Scott - as I go back and forth between the Palm viewer and the Splash 
viewer I see there are quite the differences. Things that display full 
screen in the Palm viewer (photos that came with my TX) display as only 
partial screen in the splash viewer (488 x 488). Things that display full 
screen in the splash viewer display as only partiallyon the screen in the 
Palm (480 x 320). And some photos that were included with the TX (720 x 
480) display as full screen in both viewers. 

I've kind of dug further into the Palm viewer than I ever ventured before 
because of all of this and it has a fair bit of power - the ability to show 
details about the photos, write notes against your photo or your album etc. 
There are things I prefer about this viewer over Splash and things that I 
like better with Splash.

I notice in Splash that it creates duplicates of the iPhoto photos in a 
Splash folder. I'm assuming your conduit does the same thing and that the 
Palm conduit would do this also. It would be nice if I could just sync 
photos using your conduit at 640 x 480 so that it would display identically 
in the Palm viewer and the Splash viewer. However, I get that black space 
in Splash due to the way the Markspace conduit seems to scale the photos.

___
Kerry

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From: Kerry D <k.dawson at mac.com>
To: "The Missing Sync (Mac/Palm OS) Discussion List" 
<missing-sync-palmos-talk at lists.markspace.com>
Cc: info at splashdata.com
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 0:23:38 -0400
Subj: Finally figured out what's wrong - Re: [missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: 
SplashData Support Request

Scott - I finally figured out what's wrong. It's your conduit. If I set 
your conduit to scale to 480 x 320 it comes into Splashphoto as 427 x 320. 
That's what the black area is.

However, if I copy my photos from iPhoto to Splashphoto it pops up a 
dialogue stating that it will scale to 480 x 320 in Landscape. When I just 
enable the Splashphoto conduit, it comes into Splashphoto exactly as 480 x 
320. There is no black area. It works perfectly and the slideshow works 
wonderfully.

If you look at these photos in the Palm Viewer, they don't fill the screen. 
The Palm viewer is looking for 640 x 480.

Finally, I can create my category in Splashphoto (e.g. Laurie Ottawa Sept 
2006) and the photos go into the Splashphoto on the Palm in the exact 
category that I want on my SD card. It works beautifully.

Missing Sync though does have a problem with its conduit. If you didn't 
have the Splash desktop and you sync photo albums using your conduit to the 
Palm and set it as 480 x 320 you don't get this. Rather you get, as I said 
above, 427 x 320. Somehow I think you should change this so that it scales 
to exactly what you set it as rather than the conduit changing it to 
something else. It just won't display in Splashphoto correctly but it will 
display in the Palm viewer without problem.

I think for other users, such as myself, this variation that your conduit 
is creating just causes confusion. Like I mentioned, the Palm's Send to 
Handheld is fully automatic and you get the perfect image on the Handheld 
and it displays exactly correctly in the Palm handheld viewer. If you check 
these files in Splash list view they will read as 640 x 480.

>From a users perspective though, all you want to see is a nice looking 
photo automatically applied to the handheld. As a user, I don't really care 
what the ratio is. I can't tell this in the Palm viewer but the Splash 
viewer does give me this information. This is how I've figured this out. 
For most users, I think they will find the Missing Sync conduit very 
puzzling.

I would recommend that all users using Missing Sync invest in the 
Splashphoto Desktop (the whole bundle) to get great results automatically. 
The Splashdesktop does allow for manual manipulation of a photo, such as 
cropping but I'm not really interested in doing this. I just want to show 
my friends my photos from my travels.

This process I've gone through has been very beneficail for me though as I 
now have much greater control over my photos on my Handheld. It is very 
easy to copy the photos from iPhoto to Splash, categorize them rapidly in 
Splash and then move them to the handheld. Using Palm's approach, although 
simple, requires that I manipulate all photos on the handheld into an 
album, which is very time consuming. The Splashphoto approach is way faster.

So once again, having figured this out, I'm a happy camper :).
___
Kerry

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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:26:16 -0700 "Scott Gruby" <sgruby at markspace.com> 
wrote:
>
>On Oct 12, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Kerry D wrote:
>
>>
>> I looked in the Splashphoto desktop and it says resize to 320 x  
>> 480. This
>> definitely does not work. However, I believe Missing Sync overrides  
>> this
>> setting as you set Missing Sync and on the first sync it puts the  
>> photos on
>> the handheld. Then on the second sync it moves the photos to  
>> Splashphoto
>> desktop. Finally, I choose a category for the photos, sync and it  
>> puts the
>> photos on the handheld in that category.
>>
>
>Missing Sync does not override the settings of the SplashPhoto  
>conduit. You should simply disable the Mark/Space Photos conduit and  
>use SplashPhoto's conduit.
>
>> Let me know if that little black area at each end of the photos is  
>> just a
>> result of the captions for space for it and when you turn it off it  
>> leaves
>> that black space yet doesn't present the captions information.
>> ___
>
>What size are the pictures you're trying to put on your device? If  
>the aspect ratio (width divided by height) is not equal to 1.5 (3:2),  
>then the pictures won't fill the screen. You need to crop the photos  
>using iPhoto (if you're not using SplashPhoto Desktop) or SplashPhoto  
>Desktop.
>
>--
>Scott Gruby
>Mark/Space, Inc.
><http://www.markspace.com/>
>
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