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| author | Peter Gervai <grin@grin.hu> |
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| date | Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:28:56 +0200 |
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| 1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> | |
| 2 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta name="generator" content="Website XSL Stylesheet V2.2 | |
| 3 "><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="BINS Photo Album"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="BINS Photo Album"><link rel="previous" href="index.html" title="BINS Photo Album"><link rel="next" href="examples.html" title="Examples"><link rel="last" href="license.html" title="License"><link rel="stylesheet" href="example.css" type="text/css"> | |
| 4 <title>Introduction</title> | |
| 5 <meta name="keyword" content="SAUTRET, BINS, album, gallery, photos, EXIF"> | |
| 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> | |
| 7 | |
| 8 | |
| 9 <p>The aim of BINS is to generate <span class="bold"><strong>static | |
| 10 HTML photo albums</strong></span>. Some of the functionalities of BINS | |
| 11 are :</p> | |
| 12 | |
| 13 <div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> generated album is <span class="bold"><strong>static</strong></span> : it's just plain | |
| 14 HTML/CSS/Javascript files (Javascript is not mandatory to view | |
| 15 the album), no need of any dynamic language (php, asp, etc.) nor | |
| 16 database on server side. Album can be burned on | |
| 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 | |
| 18 structure ; </p></li><li><p> generation | |
| 19 of a <span class="bold"><strong>thumbnail</strong></span> and of <span class="bold"><strong>scaled images</strong></span> for each picture ; | |
| 20 </p></li><li><p> generated album appearance | |
| 21 is <span class="bold"><strong>fully customizable</strong></span> by using | |
| 22 <span class="bold"><strong>HTML templates</strong></span> (5 different | |
| 23 templates sets are currently provided) and <span class="bold"><strong>configuration parameters</strong></span>: colors, number | |
| 24 and size of thumbnails per page, number and size of scaled | |
| 25 pictures (in pixels or percentage of the original image for the | |
| 26 size), fields to display, etc. Those parameters can be <span class="bold"><strong>set globally</strong></span> (system wide or per user), | |
| 27 <span class="bold"><strong>per album</strong></span> or sub album or | |
| 28 <span class="bold"><strong>per picture</strong></span> (for example, you | |
| 29 can change the colors of one sub album or one just one picture | |
| 30 page in an album by editing its description file) ; | |
| 31 </p></li><li><p> several <span class="bold"><strong>description fields</strong></span> (date, location, | |
| 32 etc...) can be associated with the pictures (in text or HTML | |
| 33 format). You can easily add or customize these fields ; | |
| 34 </p></li><li><p> description fields can be | |
| 35 set or modified via a <span class="bold"><strong>command line | |
| 36 interface</strong></span> or a <span class="bold"><strong>GTK+/GNOME-based | |
| 37 GUI</strong></span> ; </p></li><li><p> A <span class="bold"><strong>search engine</strong></span> is | |
| 38 included in the album : you can find some pictures by searching | |
| 39 keywords in their description fields.</p></li><li><p> Album can be generated from pictures managed by | |
| 40 <a href="http://www.nother.net/zoph/" target="_top">Zoph</a>. | |
| 41 </p></li><li><p> <span class="bold"><strong>speed up</strong></span> album | |
| 42 browsing by performing a clean up of <span class="acronym">HTML</span> | |
| 43 code to reduce its size and by <span class="bold"><strong>pre-loading</strong></span> thumbnails in browser cache | |
| 44 using <span class="emphasis"><em>JavaScript</em></span> code ; | |
| 45 </p></li><li><p>Exif information and <span class="bold"><strong>Digital | |
| 46 camera support</strong></span> : | |
| 47 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="circle"><li><p> | |
| 48 use the EXIF data structure found on some image files | |
| 49 (usually, those produced by digital cameras) to fill | |
| 50 automatically some fields (date and time for example). | |
| 51 </p></li><li><p> | |
| 52 BINS use the Orientation EXIF tag (which is normally set | |
| 53 when you rotate a image on you DigiCam) to | |
| 54 <span class="bold"><strong>rotate the picture to correct | |
| 55 orientation</strong></span>. | |
| 56 </p></li><li><p> | |
| 57 For each image, a page provides all information | |
| 58 available on the picture and the <span class="bold"><strong>DigiCam | |
| 59 settings</strong></span> when the photo was taken. | |
| 60 </p></li><li><p> | |
| 61 Additional information are provided for <span class="bold"><strong>Canon DigiCams</strong></span>. | |
| 62 </p></li><li><p> | |
| 63 Tooltips provide information about the meaning of some of | |
| 64 the fields. | |
| 65 </p></li><li><p> | |
| 66 All EXIF information is saved in the XML description file, | |
| 67 preventing they disappear when the image is | |
| 68 modified ; | |
| 69 </p></li></ul></div><p> | |
| 70 </p></li><li> | |
| 71 <p> | |
| 72 <span class="bold"><strong>internationalization</strong></span> | |
| 73 (generation of album in different languages) using gettext. | |
| 74 Current languages supported are Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, | |
| 75 Finish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, | |
| 76 Russian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese ; | |
| 77 </p> | |
| 78 </li><li><p> | |
| 79 <span class="bold"><strong>customizable charset | |
| 80 encoding</strong></span> for HTML generation, including <span class="bold"><strong>UTF-8 (Unicode)</strong></span> support by | |
| 81 default. Generation of the Apache | |
| 82 <code class="filename">.htaccess</code> file for correct encoding | |
| 83 charset in HTTP headers ; | |
| 84 </p></li><li><p> | |
| 85 use of <span class="bold"><strong>XML files</strong></span> to save user | |
| 86 description of pictures and albums/subalbums and Exif data | |
| 87 from image file ; | |
| 88 </p></li><li><p> | |
| 89 handle correctly file and directory names with spaces or | |
| 90 other odd characters (excepted '/'), and create | |
| 91 <span class="bold"><strong>valid escaped URLs</strong></span> ; | |
| 92 </p></li><li><p> generate <span class="bold"><strong>valid | |
| 93 HTML/XHTML</strong></span> code. The level of HTML depends of the | |
| 94 style used. Some of the styles are valid, table free | |
| 95 XHTML.</p></li></ul></div> | |
| 96 | |
| 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> | |
| 98 | |
| 99 | |
| 100 <p>BINS (BINS Is Not SWIGS) is a modified version of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/swigs/" target="_top">SWIGS</a> | |
| 101 (Structured Web Image Gallery System). I've made these | |
| 102 modifications because I need them. I tried to contact SWIGS | |
| 103 author, but I've got no response, so I decided to publish my | |
| 104 modified version in case someone is interested.</p> | |
| 105 | |
| 106 <p>See <a href="ChangeLog" target="_top">ChangeLog</a> file for | |
| 107 differences between SWIGS and BINS and new functionalities of each | |
| 108 version.</p> | |
| 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, Jérôme SAUTRET. </span></span></td></tr></table></div></div></body></html> |