Thumbnail Index Generator for JPEG Images under RISC OS
Generates HTML index pages and corresponding thumbnails for a gallery of JPEG images
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Versions of Pic_Index 1.21 and beyond have been made 32-bit compatible.
Therefore, to run them, you will need to install the 26/32-bit Shared C Library
on older 26-bit machines like the RPC and A series machines.
This is available from Castle's site at
http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/system.shtml
On earlier machines you may also benefit from the other upgrades available there.
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JPEGs can occasionally be troublesome beasts.
As Pic_Index uses ChangeFSI which in turn uses the JPEGroup
software, some more modern, and some would say mangled, JPEG
images will not work. An example of these is the progressive
image.
Software exists to 'clean-up' such images back to 'standard'
or 'optimised' format, and examples appear in the links
below:
- !Jack from J David
Barrow
- !Jclean from J David
Barrow
- !CleanJPEG from David Thomas is no longer available, but his PrivateEye (see below) has cleaning options.
This facility of 'cleaning-up' is deliberately not
built-in to Pic_Index, so that comments (including those inserted
by Mavica) can be preserved.
Other JPEG-related utilities include:
- !PrivatEye
image viewer from David Thomas (now Iyonix compatible!)
- !SwiftJPEG
image viewer 1.10 (Iyonix compatible!)
- !Jcut JPEG cropper
from J David Barrow
Cameras often produce oddly or wastefully named JPEGs, and
if Mavica isn't suitable, a very versatile file renaming utility
can be found in Rename. It isn't easy to get to grips with, but
worth the perseverance!
For those wishing to burn their own CDs of Pic_Index photo albums:
Other useful links:
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WebChange 2 by Vince Hudd - utility to search-and-replace in HTML files or whole sites in one go!
- Ray Favre. Home of books "Starting Basic" and
"Dr Wimp's Surgery" and support of the Dr Wimp freeware package.
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ZipEE freeware zip file de-archiver
John no longer uses his RISC OS machine, so further development of this application, including 32-bit compatability, is unlikely!
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RISC OS ODP - the Open Directory Project RISC OS pages
-
InterGif and IGViewer
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a random user-quote:
"For various reasons it became a series of moderate uploads rather than one big one but they all went fine and Pic_Index generated the necessary files beautifully. As I said once before, I wish I'd had this software a long time ago, it would have saved me many, many hours of work!" Mike Morris
page accessed: Saturday, July 5, 2008