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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The Philosophy behind Pic_Index
Pic_Index is not a "wizard" to do everything for
you. It is a utility to do the repetitive tasks you
could do yourself, but would rather spend the time doing
other things!
It is not intended to hide the way it works (though the
code is highly compressed to deter you from messing about
with it and protect its security mechanisms!).
It creates HTML-based image pages linked from a thumbnail
index page, and these are stored in an album directory
structure which is designed to be logical and easy to
understand.
What it does is list any JPEG files in its gallery
directory in a file called jpgs, and copy this list to a file
called comments. It uses ChangeFSI and the jpgs list to
create thumbnail images which it stores in a thumbs directory
according to some preset criteria determined by the user, and
then it creates an index thumbnail page in HTML and
individual HTML pages to display each full-size JPEG image
which it stores in a htxt directory.
Various factors affecting the way these pages appear can
be preset.
If you alter the comments file, perhaps using the
in-built comments editor, you can choose to have this text
(or none) displayed on the image page and/or the index page
as well in place of the filename.
The jpgs file and the comments file must
correspond with each other to make this work, otherwise the
wrong comment or filename may appear with an image.
There is a time-saving option called Remake HTML which
does just that without having to remake the thumbnail images,
so if you've altered a setting you can incorporate it.
Any settings current when an album is made or remade are
recorded in a file called choices within the album.
The HTML files that are produced are straight-forward
HTML files which can easily be edited/tweaked by hand to
achieve the required effect.
The author considers it important that users (try to)
understand the simple structure of an album and how the
program uses the information to create the HTML pages.
Any modifications which the author thinks may tend to
obscure this understanding will not be implemented within
Pic_Index.
If you can't be bothered to try to understand how these
things work, then perhaps Pic_Index is not for you!
If you can be bothered, you will find Pic_Index
a useful and versatile tool.
That's a simplistic overview - but it encapsulates the philosophy which led to the creation of the Pic_Index application.
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a random user-quote:
"A potent piece of software." Lyndsay Gallon
page accessed: Saturday, July 5, 2008