[Digikam-users] Export question (to HTML in particular but also in general)

[Gandalf Lechner]

Hi Chris

Am Dienstag, 2. September 2008 10:43:43 schrieb Chris G:
> I want to export selected pictures from two albums to a web page (or
> pages), I can't see any really straightforward way of doing this, am I
> missing something?
>
> I can see Export - HTML Gallery but that doesn't seem to provide me
> with any way to select the pictures I want to export.  All I got was
> an alphabetic list of every album in my database and I could select
> an album.  I want to select individual images.  (By the way by "HTML
> Gallery" does it mean the program "Gallery", or what?)

html gallery creates a html page displaying thumbnails of the selected 
pictures linked to (resized, if wanted) versions of the images. No upload is 
involved, ie the result is stored in some local folder. You have the choice 
between a number of different styles as far as the design of that html page is 
concerned. In the export menu, there is also a button to export to gallery, 
but that's a different tool.

as far as i know, one can presently not select individual images for html 
export directly. However, you can select any album, so putting the desired 
images in a subfolder and then picking that subfolder as the album to export 
in the tool does what you want. Moreover, you can select what to export with a 
tag filter. So you could also assign them a tag like "html-export" and select 
images from different albums this way.

best,
gandalf

>
> As a more general point where are all the Export options documented?
> In the main Digikam documentation chapter 4 "Menu Descriptions"
> doesn't even mention Export or Import.