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author Peter Gervai <grin@grin.hu>
date Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:28:56 +0200
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta name="generator" content="Website XSL Stylesheet V2.2
+"><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">
+    <title>Introduction</title>
+    <meta name="keyword" content="SAUTRET, BINS, album, gallery, photos, EXIF">
+  </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="&lt;-"></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>
+    
+
+    <p>The aim of BINS is to generate <span class="bold"><strong>static
+    HTML photo albums</strong></span>. Some of the functionalities of BINS
+    are :</p>
+
+    <div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> generated album is <span class="bold"><strong>static</strong></span> : it's just plain
+      HTML/CSS/Javascript files (Javascript is not mandatory to view
+      the album), no need of any dynamic language (php, asp, etc.) nor
+      database on server side. Album can be burned on
+      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
+      structure ; </p></li><li><p> generation
+      of a <span class="bold"><strong>thumbnail</strong></span> and of <span class="bold"><strong>scaled images</strong></span> for each picture ;
+      </p></li><li><p> generated album appearance
+      is <span class="bold"><strong>fully customizable</strong></span> by using
+      <span class="bold"><strong>HTML templates</strong></span> (5 different
+      templates sets are currently provided) and <span class="bold"><strong>configuration parameters</strong></span>: colors, number
+      and size of thumbnails per page, number and size of scaled
+      pictures (in pixels or percentage of the original image for the
+      size), fields to display, etc. Those parameters can be <span class="bold"><strong>set globally</strong></span> (system wide or per user),
+      <span class="bold"><strong>per album</strong></span> or sub album or
+      <span class="bold"><strong>per picture</strong></span> (for example, you
+      can change the colors of one sub album or one just one picture
+      page in an album by editing its description file) ;
+      </p></li><li><p> several <span class="bold"><strong>description fields</strong></span> (date, location,
+      etc...) can be associated with the pictures (in text or HTML
+      format). You can easily add or customize these fields ;
+      </p></li><li><p> description fields can be
+      set or modified via a <span class="bold"><strong>command line
+      interface</strong></span> or a <span class="bold"><strong>GTK+/GNOME-based
+      GUI</strong></span> ; </p></li><li><p> A <span class="bold"><strong>search engine</strong></span> is
+      included in the album : you can find some pictures by searching
+      keywords in their description fields.</p></li><li><p> Album can be generated from pictures managed by
+      <a href="http://www.nother.net/zoph/" target="_top">Zoph</a>. 
+      </p></li><li><p> <span class="bold"><strong>speed up</strong></span> album
+      browsing by performing a clean up of <span class="acronym">HTML</span>
+      code to reduce its size and by <span class="bold"><strong>pre-loading</strong></span> thumbnails in browser cache
+      using <span class="emphasis"><em>JavaScript</em></span> code ;
+      </p></li><li><p>Exif information and <span class="bold"><strong>Digital
+	  camera support</strong></span> :
+	</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="circle"><li><p>
+	    use the EXIF data structure found on some image files
+	    (usually, those produced by digital cameras) to fill
+	    automatically some fields (date and time for example).
+	  </p></li><li><p>
+	    BINS use the Orientation EXIF tag (which is normally set
+	    when you rotate a image on you DigiCam) to
+	    <span class="bold"><strong>rotate the picture to correct
+	      orientation</strong></span>.
+	  </p></li><li><p>
+	    For each image, a page provides all information
+	    available on the picture and the <span class="bold"><strong>DigiCam
+	      settings</strong></span> when the photo was taken.
+	  </p></li><li><p>
+	    Additional information are provided for <span class="bold"><strong>Canon DigiCams</strong></span>.
+	  </p></li><li><p>
+	    Tooltips provide information about the meaning of some of
+	    the fields.
+	  </p></li><li><p>
+	    All EXIF information is saved in the XML description file,
+	    preventing they disappear when the image is
+	    modified ;
+	  </p></li></ul></div><p>
+      </p></li><li>
+	<p>
+	<span class="bold"><strong>internationalization</strong></span>
+	(generation of album in different languages) using gettext. 
+	Current languages supported are Catalan, Dutch, English, Esperanto,
+	Finish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish,
+	Russian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese  ;
+	</p>
+      </li><li><p>
+	  <span class="bold"><strong>customizable charset
+	  encoding</strong></span> for HTML generation, including <span class="bold"><strong>UTF-8 (Unicode)</strong></span> support by
+	  default. Generation of the Apache
+	  <code class="filename">.htaccess</code> file for correct encoding
+	  charset in HTTP headers ;
+      </p></li><li><p>
+	use of <span class="bold"><strong>XML files</strong></span> to save user
+	description of pictures and albums/subalbums and Exif data
+	from image file ;
+      </p></li><li><p>
+	handle correctly file and directory names with spaces or
+	other odd characters (excepted '/'), and create
+	<span class="bold"><strong>valid escaped URLs</strong></span> ;
+      </p></li><li><p> generate <span class="bold"><strong>valid
+      HTML/XHTML</strong></span> code. The level of HTML depends of the
+      style used. Some of the styles are valid, table free
+      XHTML.</p></li></ul></div>
+
+  </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>
+     
+    
+    <p>BINS (BINS Is Not SWIGS) is a modified version of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/swigs/" target="_top">SWIGS</a>
+    (Structured Web Image Gallery System). I've made these
+    modifications because I need them. I tried to contact SWIGS
+    author, but I've got no response, so I decided to publish my
+    modified version in case someone is interested.</p>
+
+    <p>See <a href="ChangeLog" target="_top">ChangeLog</a> file for
+    differences between SWIGS and BINS and new functionalities of each
+    version.</p>
+  </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>