Publisher review:AutoScrapbook helps you to automate the creation and maintenance of an online photo gallery. This is a small Perl script to help automate the creation and maintenance of an online photo gallery.
It creates the thumbnails and the actual web pages for you by asking you for descriptions of the pictures.
Assuming you meet these requirements, the operation is fairly simple:
- You must be running the script on Linux or equivalent
- You must be running from within X-Windows (for display of pictures)
- [Recommended] You must have the ImageMagick program installed (included with most modern Linux distributions). You can live without it only if all of your pictures have embedded thumbnails and you have the "exif" program mentioned below. You would also have to disable the creation of "medium-sized" images. To see if you have it installed, try running the command 'convert'.
- [Recommended] You must have the 'xv' program installed (also easy to find). You could also use another picture viewer by changing the configuration at the top of the script. If you don't need to view your pictures (i.e. you already know what they are), you don't need any picture viewer.
- [Optional] You can use 'jpegtrans' for lossless rotation of images instead of ImageMagick.
- [Optional] To handle EXIF data (extended information within JPEG images created by digital cameras), you need the "exif" program. This program also allows for the thumbnails to be retrieved from the EXIF headers instead of being generated (when possible), which saves time. I recommend exif version 0.5 and libexif 0.5.6. I have had problems with older versions of the library (infinite loops).
- [Optional] The "exiftags" program can be used in addition to the "exif" program. This program provides more detailed EXIF information, particularly for Canon, Fuji, Nikon, and Olympus cameras.
- [Optional] The "jhead" program allows AutoScrapbook to embed picture descriptions within the JPEG headers which means the description will always stay with the picture, and it means fewer hidden files are required.
- [Optional] The "iptc" program allows AutoScrapbook to extract IPTC data if it is embedded in the pictures. The image description can be pulled from IPTC data, the file can be renamed using the IPTC name field, and the location information can be used on the generated web page.
Requirements: ยท ImageMagick
AutoScrapbook 5.0 is a Perl script for Image Galleries scripts design by Kirk Bauer.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
AutoScrapbook 5.0 script details 
