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zphoto: a flash-based photo album generator

Last Modified: 2004-04-10 (Since: 2002-05-22)


What's zphoto?

zphoto is a flash-based photo album generator. You can create a flash-based on-line album from photos taken by a digital camera.

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Requirements

Usage

Example

Create a photo alubum called "Boring Photos" with photos of ~/photos/*.jpg into the directory sample. Resize each photo with width of 800 pixels and apply gamma correction 1.25 for brightening.

% zphoto -o sample --photo-width=800 --gamma 1.25 --title 'Boring Photos' ~/photos/*.jpg

By default, zphoto uses HTML template files in /usr/local/share/zphoto/templates/en to generate HTML files and uses the font /usr/local/share/zphoto/fonts/EfontSerifB.fdb(efont-serif) to generate Flash.

Command Line Options

Try "zphoto --help"

Configuration File

On Unix, zphoto reads ~/.zphotorc as a configuration file if it exists. On Windows, zphoto reads zphoto.txt in the directory where zphoto.exe exists. You can specify an alternate configuration file using --config option.

To create a configuration file, just run "zphoto --dump-config" command. You can create ~/.zphotorc by the following.

% zphoto --dump-config > ~/.zphotorc

The configuration file is a text file like:

photo_width           = 600
thumbnail_width       = 320
html_thumbnail_width  = 120
gamma                 = 1.000000
...

Setting Captions

--caption-file option requires a line-oriented file like:

foo.jpg <TAB> caption for foo
bar.jpg <TAB> caption for bar

The file name and the caption should be separated with TAB character.

Links

Windows Version

The binary presented here is builded with MinGW and tested under Windows XP. The binary can be obtained from Download. You can unzip the file and just use it without running an installer.

Usage

Unfortunately, no GUI is presented yet. Using zphoto on a command prompt is just same as Unix version but additionally you can drag and drop JPEG files to zphoto.exe instead.

However, if you drag and drop dozens of files, Windows probably open an error dialog claiming "You cannot do it".

Note that creation of a zip file is not supported on Windows yet.

Download

zphoto is a free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.


Satoru Takabayashi