[softwarelist] Re: Loading pictures into OPro
- From: "Ian Barr" <ianbarr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:39:55 +0100
Have you tried JAlbum for creating web pages of images?
http://jalbum.net/
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[mailto:davidpilling-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Powys-Lybbe
Sent: 23 June 2008 21:12
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Subject: [softwarelist] Re: Loading pictures into OPro
In message of 23 Jun, Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2008 Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > A totally alternative strategy might be to use another program to
> > assemble all the images to join them together into one PDF file. But I
> > have yet to find a program that does this as easily as OPro - and I have
> > tried Easiwriter. Any suggestions, anyone?
>
>
> No idea if this would work, but perhaps worth a try? Use a program
> like WebGallery to make a web-page of the images, and "print" this
> using PrintPDF?
Yes, I was wondering earlier today if some other iterative program would
do the business. I had a good look at Labella and WebGallery.
Labella will only accept Draw types of files, which is a bit laborious,
and WebGallery did not seem to have a facility to pump out A4 size
images, whatever the size of the incoming picture. WebGallery only
accepts JPEGs and GIFs for input at the moment and I'm not sure this
will do what I want.
I even gave it a few moments thought that I could write a program to
load images and output a series of pages in some sort of file. It did
not take long to realise that this would be complicated. But I wonder
if screen background display programs, such as BDRand by Nick Roberts,
might have some of the core technology?
In fact I have now completed the latest assembly via OPro. The
laborious step was converting all the input to Sprites. Then I loaded
each sprite in turn into OPro which auto-enlarges or constricts the
images to nicely fit inside the chosen frame. Nearly all the images were
loaded by Reference leading to an OPro file size of 668K, even though
the 70 images totalled some 34.6M. The resulting PDF file was a mere
6.7M; this compares will with the total of 7.7M of the source Tiff
files.
Using sprites, the OPro file is completely stable and shows none of the
problems I found when using Tiffs or Gifs - and reported earlier today.
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