[ale] www photo archive

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 26 16:44:06 EST 2003


That is perfect, exactly what I am looking for.  Can you make the script
available, or email it to me?  Thanks!

-Jim P.

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 07:53, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I spent the evening checking out various photo/image archiving
> > solutions on freshmeat.net.  Needless to say, I am burned out.  ;)
> > There are simply too many choices and not enough satisfaction.  I am
> > looking for a simple script/tool that takes existing directories of
> > jpeg files and creates thumbnails and a index.html file for each.
> > Can anyone recommend a good program?
> 
> I threw together a perl script that does something similar.  You can 
> view the results at:
> 
> http://www.3times25.net/lucy/gallery/
> 
> It generates the html as well as the thumbnails.  I would doubt it's any 
> better then anything you'd find at freshmeat, but you're welcome to it 
> if you'd like.  It resizes the images for display on the webpage so you 
> might want to change that if you don't want it to do that.  It does 
> retain the original images intact.
> 
> Currently it only operates on file names passed on the command line 
> though, not directories:
> 
> makewebpics *.jpg
> 
> requires perl and imagemagic.



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