[juneau-lug] Re: webify jpeg script
- From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:02:37 -0800
On Sunday 16 March 2008 18:39, Jamie wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> Long time no hear. Are you back home for a while?
>
No, still in Afghanistan.
> I didn't quit get what your goal is with this script. If you just want
> to view jpg's locally why not use one of the many existing viewers that
> will auto-size them to your screen and why bother with html? What am I
> missing here?
>
The goal of this script is to resize a bunch of jpeg images to 800x600 and
wrap them in HTML. I use kstart to open display in Tool mode so that once I
start the script, I never have to move my fingers off of the keyboard. No
yucky "find the mouse, click, find the home keys, type, find the mouse..." I
hate that. Once I am done, I zip up the resulting directory and let people
see photos that have comments on them. You can see the results of the script
versions 0.1-0.3 here:
http://e5z8652.freeshell.org/
I've completed the 0.4 version with the HTML title/alternate text and always
adding the current year (notice the last batch from March 2008 still says
2007 at the bottom).
But with a few tweaks it could be used for just about anyone to wrap pictures
into static HTML.
I know there are lots of solutions for online photo albums -- I see the
security updates for the php+*sql solutions all the time. :) So my personal
website has lots of static HTML that I generate from scripts. Maybe not so
geekily cutting edge, but eminently safe.
> For web viewing, you may be interested in seeing another solution. SCRY
> http://scry.org/ is nice and simple. 23k to download. It uses GD lib
> for image manipulation and creates a thumbnail and intermediate size
> image on demand but caches them for future speed. You organize your
> images by directory. So updating your web pages is as simple as adding
> a image file (or symlink) into the structure. Setup is fast (they claim
> 2 minutes).
>
> As it comes, SCRY doesn't do comments. But it is able to report out
> exif data and exif data can contain a comment (limited to 256 chars, I
> think). So I tweaked the code to have it display the embedded comment
> and that works fine.
I'll look at that. I just happened to start playing with exiv2 last month.
I have no other projects, just a list of things to get around to eventually.
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