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Posted by mbstevens on 09/19/06 03:39
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:45:52 +1000, dorayme wrote:
> In article <pan.2006.09.19.01.05.02.532208@XmbstevensX.com>,
> mbstevens <NOXwebmasterX@XmbstevensX.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:36:42 +1000, dorayme wrote:
>>
>> > What I do wonder though is when someone makes such an app, where does
>> > he or she get the image rendering algorithms, like resizing,
>> > compressing etc, are they open source? And are they easily made to be
>> > as good as in PS or FW?
>>
>> There are open source libraries/modules for these things. A number of
>> languages have bindings for image magick. I often use it in Perl and I
>> like it a lot.
>>
>> Gimp is programmable with Scheme, Perl, and several other languages.
>>
>> What is your generator in? What does it say to use/include/load at the
>> top of the source code?
>
> I don't have access to the programming code in this app... I just
> downloaded it and took a look. JAlbum.
>
> Be nice to be able to configure the html as well as the css. The css is
> easy as it is one file and applies to all. But the html are as many files
> as there are pics and to control that would need either parameters that
> non programmers can use or else the source code. It may be available and I
> don't know it.
>
> Is there anything out there that actually generates simple non table based
> mark up. It would be nice not to have to make albums "by hand" as I always
> seem to end up doing! I now particularly do not like fixed layouts for
> thumbnails (the strong dislike has stemmed from seeing that url you kindly
> provided about floating divs for thumbnails), I like very much now, the
> idea of thumbnail wrapping and regard fixed rows and cols for these things
> as a bit dumb. The point of being able to control the html is to be able
> to control the css that applies to it. With JAlbum, one can only style a
> table based set of files. (Sure, it's better than a slap in the face with
> a wet fish.)
If it is open source you should be able to get into it and modify things.
Or find one that is open source and modify it to write better HTML. If
it's in Perl, Ruby, or Python it won't be too difficult. I did exactly
that to two different Perl programs to generate the 300 some-odd
interlinked genealogy pages at my site from simple gedcom files.
(But I don't recommend image-album-creators unless all your images can be
treated exactly the same way. Often it is a better idea to hand-tweak
images. You can cut download time by about 2/3 for some .jpgs, for
instance, without it being noticeably degraded to a human viewer. Others
can hardly be reduced at all. It's all a matter of hand tweaking while
watching the test files. And choosing the right size and cropping for a
thumbnail of a full image is also a human intensive task if it is to be
done right.)
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