album

DESCRIPTION

album is an HTML photo album generator that supports themes. It takes a directory of images and creates all the thumbnails and HTML that you need. It's fast, easy to use, and very powerful.

Place your photos in a new directory somewhere inside your web pages. Then run "album" from a command-line prompt with the directory path as an argument, and that's it.

To use themes, make sure the "Themes" directory is inside your web path, and then use the -theme option.

OPTIONS

There are three types of options. Boolean options, string/num options and array options. Boolean options can be turned off by prepending -no_:

% album -no_image_pages

String and number values are specified after a string option:

% album -type gif % album -columns 5

Array options can be specified two ways, with one argument at a time:

% album -exif hi -exif there

Or multiple arguments using the '--' form:

% album --exif hi there --

You can remove specific array options with -no_<option>:

% album -no_exif hi

Or clear all the array options with -clear_<option>:

% album -clear_exif

Boolean options:

% album -q, -d, -D, -dtheme, -Dtheme, -virgin_check, -save_conf, -configure, -crf, -list_options, -image_pages, -thumbs, -dir_thumbs, -just_medium, -slideshow, -embed, -clean, -image_headers, -album_captions, -folder_count, -caption_edit, -file_sizes, -fix_urls, -known_images, -all, -hashes, -reverse_sort, -case_sort, -image_loop, -burn, -crop, -force, -force_html, -sample, -animated_gifs, -use_tcap

String/number options:

% album -thumb_post, -medium, -captions, -top, -sort, -body, -charset, -force_charset, -index, -default_index, -html, -type, -medium_type, -CROP, -dir, -sharpen, -plugin_post, -theme, -theme_url, -convert, -identify, -jhead, -ffmpeg, -conf_file, -dev_null, -windows, -cygwin, -tcap, -tcap_out, -cmdproxy, -header, -footer, -credit, -no_album, -hide_album, -not_img

Array options:

% album --lang_path, --exif, --exif_album, --exif_image, --add, --scale_opts, --medium_scale_opts, --thumb_scale_opts, --data_path, --plugin_path, --theme_path

OPTION DESCRIPTIONS

-h: Show usage

-more: To show more options.

-usage=level: Show usage as deep as you like.

-lang=lang: Specify language(s)

-list_langs: List out full language information

-make_lang=lang: Print out a new language file

-list_html_trans: List HTML translations for each language Useful for creating multi-lingual images for themes Output is in HTML and utf-8, change charset as needed

--lang_path=strings: Add a path to search for language files [Default @DATA_PATH/lang]

-q: Be quiet [Default OFF]

-d: Set debug mode [Default OFF]

-D: Heavy debug mode [Default OFF]

-dtheme: Theme debug mode [Default OFF]

-Dtheme: Theme heavy debug mode [Default OFF]

-conf=file: Read a .conf file

-virgin_check: Do the virgin check to see if you've run album before [Default ON]

-save_conf: Save album.conf files in photo album [Default ON]

-configure: Setup initial album site configuration [Default OFF]

-version: Display program version info

-mv: Move imgs across albums: see 'album -plugin_info utils/mv'

-create_plugin: Create plugin: see 'album -plugin_info utils/create_plugin'

Album Options:

-crf: Album hash output in computer readable format [Default OFF]

-list_options: Show default options and values for a given album [Default OFF]

-image_pages: Create a page for each image [Default ON]

-thumbs: Images have thumbnails [Default ON]

-dir_thumbs: Directories have thumbnail (if supported by theme) [Default ON]

-thumb_post=string: Additional postfix for thumbnails.

-medium=geom: Generate medium size images

-just_medium: Don't link to full-size images [Default OFF]

-slideshow: Slideshow capabilities (only with some themes) [Default OFF]

-embed: Use image pages for non-picture image pages [Default ON]

-columns: Number of image columns [Default 4]

-clean: Remove unused thumbnails [Default OFF]

-captions=string: Specify captions filename [Default captions.txt]

-image_headers: Show header.txt on image pages (default theme only) [Default OFF]

-album_captions: Also show captions on album page [Default ON]

-folder_count: Show folder/image counts for each album [Default ON]

-caption_edit: Add comment tags so that caption_edit.cgi will work [Default OFF]

--exif=fmt: Append exif info to captions. Use %key 0n fmt string Example: -exif "<br>Camera: %Camera model%" If any %keys% are not found by jhead, nothing is appended.

--exif_album=fmt: -exif for just album pages

--exif_image=fmt: -exif for just image pages

-file_sizes: Show image file sizes [Default OFF]

-fix_urls: Encode unsafe chars as 0x in URLs [Default ON]

-known_images: Only include known image types [Default ON]

-top=string: URL for 'Back' link on top page [Default ../]

-all: Do not hide files/directories starting with '.' [Default OFF]

--add=dir: Add a new directory to the album it's been placed in

-depth: Depth to descend directories (default infinite [-1]) [Default -1]

-follow_symlinks: Dereference symbolic links [Default ON]

-hashes: Show hash marks while generating thumbnails [Default ON]

-name_length: Limit length of image/dir names [Default 40]

-sort=string: Sort type, captions, name, date, EXIF date ('exif') [Default captions]

-reverse_sort: Sort in reverse [Default OFF]

-case_sort: Use case sensitive sorting when sorting names [Default OFF]

-body=string: Specify <body> tags for non-theme output [Default <body>]

-charset=str: Charset for non-theme and some theme output This is also set by using language files (with -lang)

-force_charset=str: Force charset (not overridden by languages)

-image_loop: Do first and last image pages loop around? [Default ON]

-burn: Setup an album to burn to CD Implies '-index index.html' and '-no_theme_url' [Default OFF]

-index=file: Select the default 'index.html' to use. For file://, try '-index index.html' to add 'index.html' to index links.

-default_index=file: The file the webserver accesses when when no file is specified. [Default index.html]

-html=post: Default postfix for HTML files [Default .html]

Thumbnail Options:

-geometry=<X>x<Y>: Size of thumbnail [Default 133x133]

-type=string: Thumbnail type (gif, jpg, tiff,...) [Default jpg]

-medium_type=string: Medium type (default is same type as full image)

-crop: Crop the image to fit thumbnail size otherwise aspect will be maintained [Default OFF]

-CROP=string: Force cropping to be top, bottom, left or right

-dir=string: Thumbnail directory [Default tn]

-force: Force overwrite of existing thumbnails and HTML otherwise they are only written when changed [Default OFF]

-force_html: Force rewrite of HTML [Default OFF]

-sample: Use 'convert -sample' for thumbnails (faster, low quality) [Default OFF]

-sharpen=<radius>x<sigma>: Sharpen after scaling

-animated_gifs: Take first frame of animated gifs (only some systems) [Default OFF]

--scale_opts=strings: Options for convert (use '--' for mult)

--medium_scale_opts=strings: List of medium convert options

--thumb_scale_opts=strings: List of thumbnail convert options

Plugin and Theme Options:

--data_path=strings: Path for themes, plugins, language files, etc...
[Default /etc/album /usr/share/album /home/dave/.album]

-plugin=plugin: Load a plugin

-plugin_usage=plugin: Show usage for a plugin

-plugin_info=plugin: Print info for a specific plugins

--plugin_path=strings: Add a path to search for plugins. [Default @DATA_PATH/plugins]

-plugin_post=string: Default postfix for plugins [Default .alp]

-list_plugins: Print info for all known plugins

-list_plugins_crf: Print info for all plugins in computer readable format

-list_hooks: Show all known plugin hooks (for developers)

-hook_info=hook: Show hook info for a specific hook (for developers)

-theme=dir: Specify a theme directory

-theme_url=url: In case you want to refer to the theme by absolute URL

--theme_path=dir: Directories that contain themes
[Default /data/proj/album/Themes /data/proj/album/Themes]

-list_themes: Show available themes

Paths:

-convert=string: Path to convert (ImageMagick) [Default convert]

-identify=string: Path to identify (ImageMagick) [Default identify]

-jhead=string: Path to jhead (extracts exif info) [Default jhead]

-ffmpeg=string: Path to ffmpeg (extracting movie frames) [Default ffmpeg]

-conf_file=string: Conf filename for album configurations [Default album.conf]

-conf_version: Configuration file version

-dev_null=string: Throwaway temp file [Default /dev/null]

-windows=string: Are we (unfortunately) running windows?

-cygwin=string: Are we using the Cygwin environment?

-use_tcap: Use tcap? (win98) [Default OFF]

-tcap=string: Path to tcap (win98) [Default tcap]

-tcap_out=string: tcap output file (win98) [Default atrash.tmp]

-cmdproxy=string: Path to cmdproxy (tcap helper for long lines) [Default cmdproxy]

-header=string: Path to header file [Default header.txt]

-footer=string: Path to footer file [Default footer.txt]

-credit=string: Credit line to add to the bottom of every album

-no_album=string: Ignore dir/file if dir/file.no_album exists [Default .no_album]

-hide_album=string: Ignore and don't display these files [Default .hide_album]

-not_img=string: Don't treat these files as images [Default .not_img]

ENVIRONMENT

HOME: Home directory for finding user-specific configuration files (.albumrc)

DOT: Instead of looking for .albumrc, album also looks for $DOT/album.conf (I'm not a big fan of .dotfiles cluttering my home directory).

tcap: Set/overwritten by the Win98 version of album for tcap arguments.

FILES

/etc/album/album.conf

/etc/album.conf: Site-specific configuration

$HOME/.albumrc

$HOME/.album.conf

$DOT/album.conf: User-specific configuration

<album>/album.conf: Album-specific configuration. Will be modified with any new command-line options!

<album>/header.txt

<album>/footer.txt

<album>/captions.txt

<album>/.no_album

<album>/<image>.no_album

<album>/.hide_album

<album>/<image>.hide_album

<album>/<image>.not_img: Specifies album information

AUTHOR

David Ljung Madison <http://MarginalHacks.com/>

2016-04-19

album v4.15

album

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