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| author | Peter Gervai <grin@grin.hu> |
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| date | Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:31:54 +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="<-"></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, J?r?me SAUTRET. </span></span></td></tr></table></div></div></body></html>