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4 <title>Introduction</title> |
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5 <meta name="keyword" content="SAUTRET, BINS, album, gallery, photos, EXIF"> |
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6 </head><body class="tabular" bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div id="intro" class="webpage"><a name="intro"></a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="Navigation"><tr><td valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#4080FF" width="220"><p class="navtoc"><a href="index.html"><img align="left" border="0" src="graphics/banner.png" alt="Banner"></a><br clear="all"><br><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="intro.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/current/leaf.gif" alt="+" border="0"></a><span class="curpage">Introduction?<img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/current/pointer.gif" alt="<-"></span><br></span><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="examples.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/other/leaf.gif" alt="?" border="0"></a><span class="otherpage"><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></span><br></span><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="faq.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/other/leaf.gif" alt="?" border="0"></a><span class="otherpage"><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></span><br></span><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="download.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/other/leaf.gif" alt="?" border="0"></a><span class="otherpage"><a href="download.html">Download</a></span><br></span><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="install.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/other/closed.gif" alt="?" border="0"></a><span class="otherpage"><a href="install.html">Installation</a></span><br></span><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="usage_album.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/other/closed.gif" alt="?" border="0"></a><span class="otherpage"><a href="usage_album.html">Usage</a></span><br></span><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="contact.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/other/leaf.gif" alt="?" border="0"></a><span class="otherpage"><a href="contact.html">Contact and contribution</a></span><br></span><span class="toplevel"><img src="graphics/blank.gif" alt="???"><a href="license.html"><img src="graphics/navicons/triangle/other/leaf.gif" alt="?" border="0"></a><span class="otherpage"><a href="license.html">License</a></span><br></span><br></p></td><td valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="white"><h1>Introduction</h1><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2469589"></a>Features</h2></div></div></div> |
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8 |
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9 <p>The aim of BINS is to generate <span class="bold"><strong>static |
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10 HTML photo albums</strong></span>. Some of the functionalities of BINS |
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11 are?:</p> |
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12 |
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13 <div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> generated album is <span class="bold"><strong>static</strong></span>?: it's just plain |
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14 HTML/CSS/Javascript files (Javascript is not mandatory to view |
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15 the album), no need of any dynamic language (php, asp, etc.) nor |
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16 database on server side. Album can be burned on |
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17 CD or DVD.</p></li><li><p> album can contains other albums (<span class="bold"><strong>sub albums</strong></span>): the album can have a tree |
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18 structure?; </p></li><li><p> generation |
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19 of a <span class="bold"><strong>thumbnail</strong></span> and of <span class="bold"><strong>scaled images</strong></span> for each picture?; |
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20 </p></li><li><p> generated album appearance |
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21 is <span class="bold"><strong>fully customizable</strong></span> by using |
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22 <span class="bold"><strong>HTML templates</strong></span> (5 different |
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23 templates sets are currently provided) and <span class="bold"><strong>configuration parameters</strong></span>: colors, number |
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24 and size of thumbnails per page, number and size of scaled |
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25 pictures (in pixels or percentage of the original image for the |
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26 size), fields to display, etc. Those parameters can be <span class="bold"><strong>set globally</strong></span> (system wide or per user), |
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27 <span class="bold"><strong>per album</strong></span> or sub album or |
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28 <span class="bold"><strong>per picture</strong></span> (for example, you |
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29 can change the colors of one sub album or one just one picture |
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30 page in an album by editing its description file)?; |
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31 </p></li><li><p> several <span class="bold"><strong>description fields</strong></span> (date, location, |
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32 etc...) can be associated with the pictures (in text or HTML |
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33 format). You can easily add or customize these fields?; |
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34 </p></li><li><p> description fields can be |
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35 set or modified via a <span class="bold"><strong>command line |
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36 interface</strong></span> or a <span class="bold"><strong>GTK+/GNOME-based |
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37 GUI</strong></span>?; </p></li><li><p> A <span class="bold"><strong>search engine</strong></span> is |
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38 included in the album?: you can find some pictures by searching |
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39 keywords in their description fields.</p></li><li><p> Album can be generated from pictures managed by |
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40 <a href="http://www.nother.net/zoph/" target="_top">Zoph</a>. |
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41 </p></li><li><p> <span class="bold"><strong>speed up</strong></span> album |
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42 browsing by performing a clean up of <span class="acronym">HTML</span> |
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43 code to reduce its size and by <span class="bold"><strong>pre-loading</strong></span> thumbnails in browser cache |
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44 using <span class="emphasis"><em>JavaScript</em></span> code?; |
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45 </p></li><li><p>Exif information and <span class="bold"><strong>Digital |
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46 camera support</strong></span>?: |
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47 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="circle"><li><p> |
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48 use the EXIF data structure found on some image files |
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49 (usually, those produced by digital cameras) to fill |
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50 automatically some fields (date and time for example). |
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51 </p></li><li><p> |
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52 BINS use the Orientation EXIF tag (which is normally set |
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53 when you rotate a image on you DigiCam) to |
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54 <span class="bold"><strong>rotate the picture to correct |
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55 orientation</strong></span>. |
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56 </p></li><li><p> |
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57 For each image, a page provides all information |
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58 available on the picture and the <span class="bold"><strong>DigiCam |
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59 settings</strong></span> when the photo was taken. |
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60 </p></li><li><p> |
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61 Additional information are provided for <span class="bold"><strong>Canon DigiCams</strong></span>. |
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62 </p></li><li><p> |
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63 Tooltips provide information about the meaning of some of |
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64 the fields. |
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65 </p></li><li><p> |
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66 All EXIF information is saved in the XML description file, |
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67 preventing they disappear when the image is |
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68 modified?; |
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69 </p></li></ul></div><p> |
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70 </p></li><li> |
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71 <p> |
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72 <span class="bold"><strong>internationalization</strong></span> |
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73 (generation of album in different languages) using gettext. |
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74 Current languages supported are Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, |
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75 Finish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, |
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76 Russian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese ?; |
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77 </p> |
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78 </li><li><p> |
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79 <span class="bold"><strong>customizable charset |
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80 encoding</strong></span> for HTML generation, including <span class="bold"><strong>UTF-8 (Unicode)</strong></span> support by |
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81 default. Generation of the Apache |
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82 <code class="filename">.htaccess</code> file for correct encoding |
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83 charset in HTTP headers?; |
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84 </p></li><li><p> |
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85 use of <span class="bold"><strong>XML files</strong></span> to save user |
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86 description of pictures and albums/subalbums and Exif data |
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87 from image file?; |
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88 </p></li><li><p> |
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89 handle correctly file and directory names with spaces or |
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90 other odd characters (excepted '/'), and create |
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91 <span class="bold"><strong>valid escaped URLs</strong></span>?; |
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92 </p></li><li><p> generate <span class="bold"><strong>valid |
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93 HTML/XHTML</strong></span> code. The level of HTML depends of the |
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94 style used. Some of the styles are valid, table free |
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95 XHTML.</p></li></ul></div> |
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96 |
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97 </div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2469935"></a>History</h2></div></div></div> |
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98 |
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100 <p>BINS (BINS Is Not SWIGS) is a modified version of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/swigs/" target="_top">SWIGS</a> |
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101 (Structured Web Image Gallery System). I've made these |
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102 modifications because I need them. I tried to contact SWIGS |
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103 author, but I've got no response, so I decided to publish my |
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104 modified version in case someone is interested.</p> |
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105 |
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106 <p>See <a href="ChangeLog" target="_top">ChangeLog</a> file for |
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107 differences between SWIGS and BINS and new functionalities of each |
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108 version.</p> |
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109 </div><br></td></tr></table><div class="navfoot"><hr><table width="100%" border="0" summary="Footer navigation"><tr><td width="33%" align="left"><span class="footdate">$Date: 2005/08/21 20:12:33 $</span></td><td width="34%" align="center"><span class="foothome"><a href="index.html">Home</a></span></td><td width="33%" align="right">?</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" align="right"><span class="footcopy"><span class="copyright">Copyright ? 2001, 2005, J?r?me SAUTRET. </span></span></td></tr></table></div></div></body></html> |
