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4.3.9 HTML-Export

This function exports the pictures of an album in an arrangement, suitable for the web, as HTML- and imagefiles, offering many additional options.

The options in detail (columnwise, from left to right):

4.3.9.1 Format

Here you can set the format, in which the full pictures and thumbnails shall be saved. "PNG" will, with the exception of some special cases, always create bigger files than "JPEG", as it does not use a lossy compression algorithm. It thus is better suited for picture-CDs on HTML-basis, where enough space and "bandwidth" is available.

4.3.9.2 Target directory

Specify the target directory for the created HTML- and picturefiles here. ATTENTION: Existant, equally named files are overwritten.

4.3.9.3 Thumbnail quality

If JPEG is chosen as format, you can select the JPEG-quality of the thumbnail-files here.

4.3.9.4 Fullpic Qualität

If JPEG is chosen as format, you can select the JPEG-quality of the full picture-files here.

4.3.9.5 Pictures / Line

Specify how many thumbnails shall be stored in a line, here.

4.3.9.6 Lines / Page

Give the number of lines of thumbnails per page here. "0" stands for "one page for all".

4.3.9.7 Table border

Specifies the size of the HTML-tableborder for the overview page(s).

4.3.9.8 Picture border

Specifies the size of the HTML-imageborder for the single pictures.

4.3.9.9 Subtitle

You can choose what information shall be printed below a picture, here. If you have used the (lateron explained) albumtools to add comments to the pictures, this is the place to enable their export.

4.3.9.10 Headfile

By default, fxALBUM exports a minimum head for each created HTML-page. If you want to seaminglessly integrate an exported HTML-album in your page, you can specify a file, containg your own header (e.g. navigation links), here.

4.3.9.11 Footerfile

This option does the same as "Headfile", except it defines the file containg the HTML- code to append at the bottom of a HTML-page.

4.3.9.12 Skin

Skins allow you to change the way the exported albums look like. A description and a definition on the structure of a skin can be found in either an appendix or in a file in fxPAINT:Storage/Web/Skins/.

4.3.9.13 Overview only

If this option is active, no HTML-slideshows, fxCARDs and full picture views are generated. This makes only sense when presenting small pictures or if you don't want or need a bigger view, though.

4.3.9.14 File suffix

Here you can define the file suffix of the HTML-files. Normally you should just leave this to "html". This changes of course if you use e.g. serverside includes (SSI) or a scripting language like PHP in your head- und footer-files. In those cases suffixes like "shtml" and "php" of course make sense.

4.3.9.15 Thumbnail: Size

Give the maximum width and height of a thumbnail here. The default is the size you set for your fxALBUM-thumbnails in the settings.

4.3.9.16 Thumbnail: High quality

Makes fxALBUM use a high quality scaling algorithm for the thumbnails. This needs more calculation time, though.

4.3.9.17 Thumbnail: Smooth border

This function adds a soft border to the saved thumbnails, giving them a decent 3D look.

4.3.9.18 Full picture: Scale to and Max size

If you don't want to export full images in their original size, you can either set its maximum width and height with "Max size" or a fix percentage of its orginal size.

4.3.9.19 Full picture: Smooth border

This function adds a soft border to the saved full pictures, giving them a decent 3D look.

4.3.9.20 Full picture: Insert pen and Pen

This function lets you insert a pen, much like a stamp or a watermark, into your full pictures. This is especially of use when putting online exclusive pictures or you want to make illegal copies harder.

4.3.9.21 Create fxCARDs

If this option is active, fxPAINT creates the required HTML-code and an adapted PHP4-script with which you can offer internet greeting cards on your page. You need a PHP4-enabled HTTP- server for this, though. The copyright for the exported script remains at IOSPIRIT. It may only be used by registered users of fxPAINT. To ensure the security of the sourcecode of the script is your duty. Though we prepared the script with greatest care, IOSPIRIT can not be made responsible for the function and the behaving of the script.

4.3.9.22 Create slideshow and delay

If this option is active, fxALBUM creates an additional set of HTML-files that allow you to use a browser to view a slideshow.

4.3.9.23 Load and save profiles

If you are regulary using non-default settings, you can save and reuse your settings with these two functions.

4.3.9.24 Create HTML-album

This starts the actual calculation and creation of the HTML-album.
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