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PowerNailer was originally created as a Front End for an image manipulation program called "Image Alchemy". However, image alchemy being a commercial product, and myself wanting to offer this program to the general public, and due to the fact that the Image Alchemy's image scaling was awfully slow, I have decided to incorporate the main image file formats currently used on the internet today directly into PowerNailer. Thus PowerNailer now reads both the JPEG and GIF formats for thumbnail creation. Adding to that my own high-quality Image scaling routines the increase to the image processing speed of PowerNailer is in excess of 600% allowing a wopping 300 images per minute processing on a P2/300mhz. This speed was measured by Reading+Scaling+Witting 1000 randomly sized pictures (all over 320x240). However, while most people have never even seen another format other than JPEG or GIF (mainly due to the VERY BIG size of most other formats), others might want the support of such less-used formats. For these people, PowerNailer still supports the use of Image Alchemy for any unknown file format extension. One of the major strengths of PowerNailer is its automatic support of multi-page creation. For example, you can set up a picture page with a setting of 5 thumbnails per line and a setting of 5 lines per page (25 thumbnails per page), then continue to dump 5000 pictures into a single directory, and PowerNailer will automatically create 200 HTML pages with 25 thumbnails per page. Another major strength is the ease in which you can add more pages. Just dump more pictures into the same directory, and PowerNailer will automatically check which images were previously thumbnailed, and create new thumbnails only for the new images. PowerNailer will then create new sequential HTML pages for the new thumbnails. This makes any web-based image gallery amazingly easy to manage. And finally, lets say your gallery is divided into sections for example:
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