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Step #3 - Web Page
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Step #5 - Finish


Configuring

Quick Start Guide
Detailed Setup
Thumbnail Properties
WebPage Appearance
FTP Settings
Program Automation
E-mail Settings
HTTP Settings
Misc Options
GPS Setup
HTML Properties
Miscellaneous HTML


Images

EXIF Editor
Batch Processing
Rotating Images


Web Pages

Preview Web Pages
View Web Pages
Sample Web Page
Font Properties


Miscellaneous

RoboPhoto FAQ
What's New in v3.0
Screen Shots
Advanced Features
HTML Template Files
Sign Up With Tripod
PAD File (htm)
PAD File (xml)
Legal Info
End-User License


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Camera icon   Settings (Images Tab)



The settings area is where you define various configuration options required by the program. A detailed setup example is here.

The images tab allows you to define the default image source directory and the thumbnail information.

The appearance of your web pages is controlled by the HTML customization file.


Image Source Directory
Click the 'Select' button to specify the image source directory. The path specified here is simply the default value. You can always change the location, as it's required, elsewhere in the program as it's needed.

Normally, this should be the same as your camera's default output directory.

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Thumbnail Quality
Specify the JPG quality. This is a number between 0 (lowest quality) and 100 (highest quality). If you're unsure what you should enter here, use 95.

JPG files are smaller that normal image files because they're compressed - the higher the compression, the smaller the file size. However, there's a trade-off: as the compression increases, the image quality decreases.

High JPG quality = low compression = big file size = nice looking images
Low JPG quality = high compression = small file size = bad looking images

The goal with specifying the JPG quality is to reach a compromise between small file size and acceptable image quality. If, for example, you specify a JPG quality of 0 you'll have very small files (good) but the image quality will be lacking (bad). A JPG quality of 100 will produce huge files (bad), but the image quality will be near perfect (good).

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Thumbnail Width
Specify the default thumbnail width, in pixels.

Thumbnails always have the same aspect ratio as the original image. Because of this, it's possible that the thumbnail will be sized based on the thumbnail height with the actual width differing from what you specify here.

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Thumbnail Height
Specify the default thumbnail height, in pixels.

Thumbnails always have the same aspect ratio as the original image. Because of this, it's possible that the thumbnail will be sized based on the thumbnail width with the actual height differing from what you specify here.

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Thumbnail Table Width
Specify the desired width of the thumbnail table, in pixels. This value should typically be a number (like 640) that will be compatible with most screen sizes. If the width of the thumbnail table is larger than the user's screen, scrolling will be required. You probably don't want that.

The number of thumbnail images per row will depend on the thumbnail width and what you specify here. For example, if you specify a thumbnail width of 100 and a thumbnail table width of 500, there will be 5 thumbnail images per row. If there's 20 total images, there will be 4 rows.

From the HTML customization screen, you can override these values by forcing either a single row or a single column. You would typically want to do that if your HTML template files use frames with left/right or top/bottom schemes.

If you're georeferencing images and if you don't specify the AreaMapWidth Misc Option, the width of the area map will be based on the thumbnail table width.

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Save
Click this button to save the current information to rp.ini, which is located in the main RoboPhoto directory.

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Help
Click this button to load the help file. You can also press the F1 key anywhere in the program for context sensitive help.

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Close
Click this button to close the form.

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