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

[Gilles Caulier]

Another way is to use PicasaWeb or Flickr Photo hosting services. There are
2 plugins for that.

Another plugin is also available to export as Flash photo page. It's my
prefered for little site.

Gilles Caulier



2008/9/2 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:03:25AM +0200, Gandalf Lechner wrote:
> > 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.
>
> OK, so that will presumably only work if I'm running a web server on
> the machine where Digikam is.
>
> >             In the export menu, there is also a button to export to
> gallery,
> > but that's a different tool.
> >
> OK, yes I see, in the Export menu "Remote Gallery Sync" means export
> to an installation of the program Gallery on a remote computer whereas
> "HTML Gallery" means create a local HTML page of thumbnails and links.
>
> Thanks for clarifying these options.
>
> I think it could be a little clearer - as I said I couldn't find where
> it's documented.
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> Typically my requirement is to create web pages with a few tens of
> pictures on them, but they're all different pages, quite separate.
> E.g.  currently I'm creating a web page about a horse ride, next week
> I want to create a different web page about a holiday, the week after
> that I want to create a web page with pictures of a car to sell.  Each
> time I would either have to create a new album and copy the pictures
> into it and then export from there and then tidy up (by removing the
> album) or I would have to tag the images I want, do the export and
> then un-tag them.
>
> Just being able to select (say) ten pictures by clicking on them and
> then exporting them would be *much* easier.
>
>
> I think I may well put something in the wish list, my ideal for quick
> and easy export of a few images would be:-
>
>    Select the pictures you want to export, by clicking on them (or
>    maybe some alternative *temporary* way of marking them - a
>    temporary tag?).
>
>    Say whether I want them made smaller (as in Remote Gallery Sync)
>
>    Export them to the right place, using KDE Wallet if necessary.
>
>
> (By the way KDE Wallet seems pretty stupid, hope I have the name
> right, it popped up when I just played with Remote Gallery Sync but I
> ignored it, now it won't pop up again even though I might want to use it)
>
>
> --
> Chris Green
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