Note that your registration code will not be displayed in Setup after you have registered.\n\nMake sure you keep a printed copy of your registration e-mail confirmation or the receipt for this software somewhere safe -- you'll need them if you have to reinstall PNG/MNG Construction Set.
When you're building animations with Animation Wizard, remember that you can drag the files you select around the file list box to adjust their position in your finished animation.
You can open multiple PNG and MNG files in PNG/MNG Construction Setand drag selected chunks between them.
You can make still objects move across your screen by making multiple copies of them and sequentially positioning them.\n\nCheck out the Manage function in the Chunk menu of PNG/MNG Construction Set to do this all in one operation.
You can duplicate items in the file list box of the Animation Wizard by dragging them to a new location and holding down the Shift key.
Want to create eye-catching animations from one or more still source images? Select Transitions from the Edit menu.
If you'd like to import MNG animations into documents created by PowerPoint, use the Movie function in the File menu of GIF Construction Set Professional to convert them to AVI files.
Many of the animations created by the Banners function can be substantially reduced by Supercompressor.
Really large animated GIF files can often be reduced considerably -- try the Supercompressor in the File menu of PNG/MNG Construction Set.
Be careful how you use anti-aliasing where it appears in PNG/MNG Construction Set. It can noticeably improve your graphics, but anti-aliased images compress less effectively.
Need some web page titles that are impossible to ignore? Try the Banners function in the Edit menu of PNG/MNG Construction Set.
If you'd like to add transparency to some or all of the images in an animation, use the Manage function in the Chunk menu of PNG/MNG Construction Set.
You can create slide shows of your still graphics through the Transitions function.\n\nSelect the None option.
Need the multiple images in a MNG animation structured in a single PNG image for display by a Java applet?\n\nSee the Image Strip function of the Chunk menu.
You can position the images in your MNG file interactively. Double-click on an Image chunk, select the Position tab and click on Interactive.\n\nClick and drag on the image that appears to adjust its position.
To select a range of chunks in a PNG/MNG Construction Set document window, click on the first chunk, hold down Shift and click on the last chunk.\n\nClick on the green Tag all button select all the chunks.
Change your mind?\n\nSelect Undo from the Edit menu to back out of any mistake.
Try turning off the Leading Edge item in the Scanners option of Banners.
Supercompressor can do a lot more to animations with no transparency.
To create LED signs in colours other than the ones available in the LED Sign function, create a conventional sign and then use the palette editor in the Manage function to change its colours.
If you're running on a slow computer, enable the Fast Colour Matching option in Setup. This will degrade the quality of a few functions of PNG/MNG Construction Set slightly, but it will speed up things like Animation Wizard and Transitions.
Make sure you enable the Compress Palette options in the Banner function. Many of the banner types only use three or four colours, and can be compressed into significantly smaller files if the unused colours in their palettes are deleted.
Need complex animations with multiple elements?\n\nSee the Build Banners Ads that Rock at our web page. The URL is in the PNG/MNG Construction Set documentation.
You can create graphics which are difficult for users of your web pages to copy.\n\nSee the Protection Matrix function in the Chunk menu.

