Gallery Mage 2               


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Gallery Mage 2 is a complete Digital Photography Film Management tool.
It allows you to organise, caption, rotate, crop, extract exif info, rename
your digital pictures while it does NOT alter the original image data.
All such actions are performed when the gallery is exported for viewing by 
an external program (such as a web photo gallery script).
	      
This tool is a companion to the GPL'ed Simple Picture Gallery Manager 
(http://spgm.sourceforge.net/). SPGM is a PHP script which displays 
thumbnailed galleries of pictures.  It is fairly easy to set up and use,
you simply upload the script, and place all of your galleries in the "gal" 
directory of that script. Unfortunately, you need to create thumbnailed 
images and individual text files containing the captions for each image which 
can be a little time consuming.  Gallery Mage makes that easier by presenting 
you with page of images, where you can enter captions and select which ones
you want in your galleries.  It also automatically generates thumbnails when you export
a gallery

Gallery Mage allows you to keep your original photos and your edited and downsized
photos seperate, and provides a convenient bridge between these two layers.  The
architecture allows for the exportation of a gallery to several different displaying
programs.  Currently the following are supported by Tank Software:
	
	- SPGM
	- SPGM with Tank Software modifications
	- Plain HTML
	

Please read the enclosed user manual for installation instructions.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Java 1.4 JRE installed or better.  Any Operating System which can run Java.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE JAVA 1.4 OR BETTER INSTALLED, THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT RUN ON OLDER 
VERSIONS OF THE JAVA RUNTIME AS IT USES NEW IMAGE MANIPULATION LIBRARIES!

If you don't have it, download the JRE for your operating system in your language here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html



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THIRD PARTY TOOLCHAIN:

Mac OS X application bundling ant task (GPL, not linked): http://www.loomcom.com/jarbundler/
FTP API (LGPL): http://www.enterprisedt.com/downloads/ftp.html
Mac Icon Creator: http://mscape.com/products/iconographer.html
ICNG2ICO converter: http://www.ittpoi.com/


    Gallery Mage
    Copyright (C) 2002-2004 William Denniss

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program in the "COPYING.txt" file; if not, write to the 
    Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, 
    MA 02111-1307  USA or visit http://www.gnu.org/