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Dear List,<br>
<br>
Questions follow after my intro.<br>
<br>
After researching and using several photo album managers, I believe
that
KPhotoAlbum is the best of the lot. Examples ruled-out are: Gallery,
Coppermine, Picasa, digiKam, Album Shaper, and many others - including
a home-grown item written by a local Linux expert.<br>
<br>
I particularly like having one set of software to efficiently manage a
large number of photos, the ability to re-arrange / re-order photos
quickly in thumbnail view and, *especially*, being able to generate
html albums for the web.<br>
<br>
I prefer the built-in html album generator because it produces albums
with choices for viewing with different resolutions. For this alone it
is better than, e.g., the html generator available in via Plugins and
in digiKam. I also like the uncluttered pages that are generated.<br>
<br>
However, I there are a couple of things that I can not determine how to
do with the html generator and after extensive searching of KPhotoAlbum
web
sites, I can not find answers. I note that I read one year's worth of
posts to the mailing list before posing my questions. I am using ver.
3.1.1 under Ubuntu.<br>
<ul>
<li>Is it possible to generate multi-page albums - albums with a
"master page" that one
can use to view subsets of pics? The only solution I can think of is to
tag photos I'd want to have on a "master" index page, File | Generate
HTML. . . , and edit the resultant page by hand to link to other index
pages.<br>
</li>
<li>How to display, for example, the "description" under a thumbnail
when viewing an index page - a caption of sorts. (I figured out, with
some time invested, how to do this for individual pics.)</li>
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Before answering the following, note that I am not a "developer" and
prefer not to get into Plugins unless they already exist and I
inadvertently missed functionality there. I don't find the output of
Plugin HTML generators to produce the kind of album I'm looking for:<br>
<ul>
<li>I'd like to customize the output from the HTML generator. Where
are the "templates" located so that I might modify them to do
these things? For example, changing the format / positioning of
captions ("Description"), etc.</li>
<li>I would also like to have exif data
available when one hovers a mouse over an image - implying this data
must be extracted when producing an html album.</li>
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Thanks in advance. And, to the authors: it is clear that a lot of good
thinking went into KPhotoAlbum.<br>
<br>
/Roger<br>
Bethesda, MD USA<br>
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