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diff --git a/REQUIREMENTS b/REQUIREMENTS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..119c570 --- /dev/null +++ b/REQUIREMENTS @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +The web backend requires to have a PHP scripting engine running on +your web server. + +There are two scripts doing the scaling work. convert/imgconv is a plain +bash script using Imagemagick to generate thumbnails and scaling images. +You can get Imagemagick at http://www.imagemagick.org/. + +# UPDATES # + +* netpbm + ------ + You can use netpbm tools instead of ImageMagick for better speed. You can + grab netpbm at http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/ but ususally your + distro ships with it already. My YDL distro has all the toos in netpbm-progs + package. + +* webgallery.pl + ------------- + + Tuomas Kuosmannen created a nautilus script that operates on selection + of images. It's way cooler than the bash script. Because the operation + can take a while, it has a nifty progressbar. The script itself is in + Perl, so you obviously need a functiuoning installation of Perl. For the + progressbar to work, you need gtk-perl bindings. You can get them at + ftp://ftp.gtk.org. Nautilus is a GUI file manager that rocks for photo + management. you can grab it at http://www.eazel.com. + +* webgallery-zenity.pl + -------------------- + + I hacked up Tuomas' script to use only gnome's zenity for the progress bars, + so there's no more gtk-perl dependency. Also this script uses Larry Ewing's + cool gdk-pixbuf scaler. It is an alternative to ImageMagick's convert + (sharing the basic commandline parameters) that discards EXIF information + (yet), but is 5 to 8 times as fast. You can really tell on large galleries. + You can find both at the convert/ directory. Instructions how to compile + gdk-pixbuf-convert.c are included in the file header. + + +If you wan't to have advanced EXIF information for your photos, make sure you +use a recent ImageMagick so that convert doesn't throw away this info when +scaling down. Also grab Metacam +(http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/metacam.html) and configure the path +to it in inc/config.inc.php. |