[SLE] Creating a Photo Album
I've recently bought a film scanner and am planning to put all my photos onto "permanent" media. The scanned images can be quite large; 1.5MB JPEG would not be unexpected with 3900x2600 scans typical. The scanner (Canon FS2710) is not yet fully supported under Linux, but that's only a matter of time. Once scanned, I'd like to assemble the scanned images into a number of "albums", possibly annotating them and providing various resolutions from thumbnail to fully-scanned size. There's no point in scanning all the images and never being able to find the one you want! I imagine that HTML would be suitable for producing albums on CD, for viewing on just about any platform. So what I need is a tool that will allow me to assemble albums interactively, with a rudimentary GUI, to produce a reasonably-portable HTML version of the album. Basically, what I want to do is select a photo from a "palette", place it on an album page, orientate, annotate and select resolutions. The layout doesn't have to be flashy; rectangular images (positioned with TABLE) are sufficient. Several optional (larger and smaller paged) albums on the same content could be generated automatically and fine-tuned by hand. A "contact sheet" of all images (as thumbnails) and a text index could then generated. So far, tcl/tk provides the simplest GUI if I were develop from scratch; but is there freely-distributable Linux/Unix software to do this already? (Web searches come up with too many hits, or none at all; maybe I'm using the wrong keywords!) I've already figured out the layout (directory tree) of files to use, so will be saving the scans accordingly. Ideas? Solutions? Anything on the SuSE CDs that would help? -- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Bernd Felsche wrote:
I've recently bought a film scanner and am planning to put all my photos onto "permanent" media. The scanned images can be quite large; 1.5MB JPEG would not be unexpected with 3900x2600 scans typical. The scanner (Canon FS2710) is not yet fully supported under Linux, but that's only a matter of time.
Once scanned, I'd like to assemble the scanned images into a number of "albums", possibly annotating them and providing various resolutions from thumbnail to fully-scanned size. There's no point in scanning all the images and never being able to find the one you want!
I imagine that HTML would be suitable for producing albums on CD, for viewing on just about any platform. So what I need is a tool that will allow me to assemble albums interactively, with a rudimentary GUI, to produce a reasonably-portable HTML version of the album.
Basically, what I want to do is select a photo from a "palette", place it on an album page, orientate, annotate and select resolutions. The layout doesn't have to be flashy; rectangular images (positioned with TABLE) are sufficient. Several optional (larger and smaller paged) albums on the same content could be generated automatically and fine-tuned by hand. A "contact sheet" of all images (as thumbnails) and a text index could then generated.
So far, tcl/tk provides the simplest GUI if I were develop from scratch; but is there freely-distributable Linux/Unix software to do this already? (Web searches come up with too many hits, or none at all; maybe I'm using the wrong keywords!)
I've already figured out the layout (directory tree) of files to use, so will be saving the scans accordingly.
Ideas? Solutions? Anything on the SuSE CDs that would help?
-- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia
Have you looked at compupic? -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Mark Hounschell tapped away at the keyboard with:
Bernd Felsche wrote: [snip]
Basically, what I want to do is select a photo from a "palette", place it on an album page, orientate, annotate and select resolutions. The layout doesn't have to be flashy; rectangular images (positioned with TABLE) are sufficient. Several optional (larger and smaller paged) albums on the same content could be generated automatically and fine-tuned by hand. A "contact sheet" of all images (as thumbnails) and a text index could then generated.
Have you looked at compupic?
Just now. It sucks CPU like crazy. Can't yet tell if it'll allow me the amount of annotation/indexing I require... it looks more like a "multi-media browser" - funny; that's what it says it is. Haven't found any functions yet to allow me to compose web pages, etc. with multiple resolutions, etc. I'll keep looking but the CPU hogging is a real pain. :-( -- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi, I have some files that I apparently need to use (a) Troff (viewer) to view/print the. What is Troff? (format?, application?) Is there a Troff viewer on the SuSE disks? Cheers Phil -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
On 27-Jul-2000 Phil Shrimpton wrote:
Hi,
I have some files that I apparently need to use (a) Troff (viewer) to view/print the.
What is Troff? (format?, application?)
Troff is a text formating language. It is used to format and typeset documents and is one of the original markup languages. All manual pages are formatted using this utility. The GNU version is called groff and comes with a number of companion tools.
Is there a Troff viewer on the SuSE disks?
Groff can produce a number of different outputs for printing. Postscript, HP4LJ, DVI and now HTML are supported. The output is controlled by switches but it generally defaults to postscript, which can be viewed with ghostview. By default you will find groff is installed on all SuSE distributions. A Troff document will more than likely use either the 'me' or 'ms' macros. Manual pages use the 'man' macros generally. I suggest as a starting point read the man pages on groff and associated documents to work out the options you will need.
Cheers
Phil
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