Web photo album of a different sort sought

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Michael Laplante

I have photos that I want to display via HTML. However, most album programs
create smaller copies of the original photos, then point to these copies. I
want the album to display the ORIGINAL photos BUT MODIFY THE HTML
APPROPRIATELY to resize the images according to a maximum width / height I
specify. This would involve maintaining the correct aspect ratio by
adjusting the other non-specified dimension.

Normally the code would look like:
<img src="pathname.jpg width=1200 height=800>

As an example I would like to able to specify a width of 900. The program
would then generate the code:
<img src="pathname.jpg width=900 height=600>

If that's not doable, how about a program that collects the name / height /
width attributes for a list of images in text form? I could then probably
use something like Excel, Notetab, whatever to tweak the numbers before
pasting into my own code.

M
 
Michael said:
I have photos that I want to display via HTML. However, most album programs
create smaller copies of the original photos, then point to these copies. I
want the album to display the ORIGINAL photos BUT MODIFY THE HTML
APPROPRIATELY to resize the images according to a maximum width / height I
specify. This would involve maintaining the correct aspect ratio by
adjusting the other non-specified dimension.

Normally the code would look like:
<img src="pathname.jpg width=1200 height=800>

As an example I would like to able to specify a width of 900. The program
would then generate the code:
<img src="pathname.jpg width=900 height=600>

If that's not doable, how about a program that collects the name / height /
width attributes for a list of images in text form? I could then probably
use something like Excel, Notetab, whatever to tweak the numbers before
pasting into my own code.

M
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You should be able to do this with JAlbum <http://jalbum.net/index.jsp>
if you set it to "link to originals."

Keep in mind that this can cause your page to load VERY slowly; the
viewer's browser is forced to download the entire original file and
then rescale it before displaying. Your example would load in almost
half the time if you resized it before posting to the web.
 
You should be able to do this with JAlbum <http://jalbum.net/index.jsp>
if you set it to "link to originals."
Click to expand...

Many web photo albums have an option to link to the original photo. However,
they don't "resize" the photo for viewing -- the browser will display it at
full size. Not what I want. Does JAlbum overcome this?

From the website I read:
" Link to originals via scaled images -Produce smaller images that are
displayed first. Practical for the web ."

This doesn't sound like what I'm after. Also, does this thing require a
Java-enabled browser to view the albums?
Keep in mind that this can cause your page to load VERY slowly; Your
example would load in almost
half the time if you resized it before posting to the web.
Click to expand...

It's not for the Web but for personal CD archives.

M
 
Michael said:
From the website I read:
" Link to originals via scaled images -Produce smaller images that are
displayed first. Practical for the web ."

This doesn't sound like what I'm after. Also, does this thing require a
Java-enabled browser to view the albums?
Click to expand...

The HTML code appears to be pretty clean, no weird java.

I played with it a bit more (I've used it in the past, but not
recently). No matter what you do you will end up with thumbnails
created. The first choice "Link to originals" displays the full-size
original when you click on the thumbnail. The second option "via
scaled images" also creates a set of mid-size files. You got from
thumbnail to mid-size to full-size originals.

Neither one is really what you are looking for. Sorry.
 
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