WHAT IS IT?
Gimp Gallery is a plugin for Gimp that creates static HTML image galleries from a directory of images.
FEATURES
There are two main features that make Gimp Gallery different (though not necessarily better) from similar programs on Freshmeat.
The first is that it's a completely interactive GIMP plug-in. It will do a non-interactive batch mode, too, but that's nothing special, really. When in interactive mode, however, it loads each image in the directory in sequence and lets you look at the image, decide if you want to include it in the directory or not, allow you to give it a title and caption, and perform any adjuments needed (rotation, cropping, adjusting contrast, etc) from within GIMP. Any changes you make are unsaved (unless you manually select "File->Save") so your originals stay clean. When you're done, Gimp Gallery automagically scales your picture as designated during the setup, and adds it to the gallery.
The second feature that makes Gimp Gallery different is that if you don't like default gallery template (there is current only one template but I'd like to change that), you can create your own by writing a custom Perl function. This function accepts a GalleryInfo object and from there can gather all the information it needs to create its own HTML for the gallery. Most other systems use XML files or something else to create the template, which may or may not be more to your liking. I dunno. Read the TEMPLATING file if you want to do this.
USING
Select the "Xtns->Web Gallery->Thumbnail Index..." menu from within gimp. For using your own custom templates, use the "Custom..." menu instead.
TEMPLATES
There is only one template currently (the "Thumbnail Index") but I'd like (for my own use, if nothing else). If you write a nice one, please send it to me. Or if you know of a nice gallery already on the web, send me a link, and I'll create a template for it. Thanks!
INSTALLATION
Read the INSTALL file.
AUTHOR
Michael Plump
plumpy@skylab.org
http://skylab.org/~plumpy/
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