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- Web Album Generator 1.6.5 - Readme
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-
- This file contains important last-minute information about
- Web Album Generator 1.6.5 that you should read before using this
- product. Documentation about Web Album Generator is available
- via the help file.
-
- Recent Version
- --------------
-
- Please visit the Web Album Generator Version Check webpage to make sure
- you have the most recent version.
-
- http://www.ornj.net/software/webalbum/versioncheck.php?version=1.6.5
-
- Or, you can visit the ornj.net webpage for more information about Web
- Album Generator and other ornj.net product:
-
- http://www.ornj.net/
-
-
- Frequently Asked Questions
- --------------------------
-
- Q: How do I put my albums on the World Wide Web?
- A: You'll need to have a web host. There are many free ones available
- on the Internet, or you can contact your ISP for more information.
-
- Q: What files do I need to put on my website?
- A: Web Album Generator creates a folder containing your album. All the
- files within this folder need to be uploaded. (This typically
- consists of one or more "index.html" files, a "photos" directory,
- and a stylesheet, "main.css"
-
- Q: Can I put my photo albums on a CD-R or CD-RW?
- A: Yes! Your album will be viewable directly off the CD as long as
- the viewer has a web browser installed.
-
- Q: Why should I use Web Album Generator over competing products?
- A: Glad you asked! Firstly, it's free. Secondly, the quality of the
- generated albums is extremely high. They are generated as valid
- XHTML documents, which means anyone using any browser will be able
- to view them. Most album generators out there only work in Internet
- Explorer. Lastly, I think Web Album Generator is the easiest to use,
- most friendly generator out there. But you can be the judge of that.
-
- Q: What does it mean to 'preserve aspect the ratio' of an image?
- A: Web Album Generator lets you resize your photographs to fit on
- standard monitor sizes. You can set the desired size of the photographs.
- If you don't preserve the aspect ratio, your photographs may appear
- 'stretched' or 'squished' to fit inside the size you specified.
-
- Q: How can I contact you?
- A: Send an email to mark@ornj.net
-
- Q: I'm getting an error message when I try to generate my web album.
- A: Some versions of Windows will not let you save documents in
- certain directories. This will generate an error message. Try
- selecting a different output directory.
-
- Q: What are the .css files that Web Album Generator creates?
- A: .css files are Cascading Stylesheets. They control the appearance
- of your web album.
-
- Q: Can I removed the "Created with Web Album Generator" notice from
- the bottom of each page?
- A: No. This message may not be removed or obscured as per the licence
- agreement.
-
- Q: I have a suggestion for Web Album Generator.
- A: I'd love to hear it! Feel free to email me at mark@ornj.net
-
- Q: My question isn't on this FAQ.
- A: Feel free to email me any additional comments, questions, or suggestions
- at mark@ornj.net
-
-
- Version History
- ---------------
-
- Version 1.6.5 - (May 1, 2005)
- - Added a welcome screen to help users get started
- - User can now change the name of the output folder, if desired
- - User can now select and re-order many photographs at a time
- - Error messages are now much more friendly
- - Selecting "no to all" when asked to overwrite photographs will no longer skip photos that don't already exist
- - Settings are now properly stored for users with limited access privileges
- - Improved the default album stylesheet and layout for cleaner photo pages
- - Fixed a 'Stack Overflow' problem some users experienced in rare cases
- - Fixed a problem where captions weren't being deleted properly.
-
- Version 1.6.0 - (September 11, 2004)
- - User can now specify a "Home" URL on the index pages
- - Stylesheets can now be loaded and saved from the stylesheet dialog
- - Improved the default album layout and stylesheet for better flexibility
- - User now has the option to remove all default photo titles
- - Generated album output is now contained in fewer folders
- - Photos with the same filename can now be added your album without conflict
- - User can now re-generate the HTML files separately from the photographs
- - Generated albums are now automatically saved for you
-
- Version 1.5.0 (August 09, 2003)
- - Improved the quality of thumbnails
- - Added support for all latin characters in descriptions and titles
- - Images are now resampled using linear interpolation instead of nearest neighbour
- - Added an option to turn off linear interpolation ("Quick Resize")
- - Index pages now link to the appropriate index page instead of always the first
- - Fixed drag and drop to support jpeg images with an uppercase extension
- - Image titles are now automatically filled in with the filename
-
- Version 1.0.1 (May 18, 2002)
- - Updated the about screen and help menu with donation information
-
- Version 1.0 (April 29, 2002)
- - Initial Release
-
-
- Acknowledgements
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-
- Portions of this product were sponsored by third-party software.
- These software tools were invaluable in creating the Toolbar.
- The dockable Toolbar was made possible by:
-
- Toolbar 2000 by Jordan Russell (http://www.jrsoftware.org/)
- TBX by Alex Denisov (http://www.g32.org/tbx/)
-
- The icons used in the Toolbar were created by Scrow's Icons
- (http://www.virtualplastic.org/scrow/)
-
- Extra image filtering was made possible through the Graphics32
- Image Library (http://www.g32.org/).
-
-
- Legal Information
- -----------------
- This program is provided "As is", with no guarantees of usefulness or
- productivity. The author, Mark McIntyre, bears no responsibility for
- damage to your system resulting from the use of this program.
-
- You may not: disassemble, reverse engineer, recompile, decompile or
- otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Program; remove,
- obscure or alter any notice of copyright or other proprietary right
- present on or in the Program; or permit or authorize anyone else to
- take any action described in this sentence.
-
- You may not remove, obscure, or hide the "Generated by Web Album Generator"
- message or redirect the link to ornj.net.
-
- If you do not agree with these terms, you must uninstall the program.
- Use of the program implicitly means you have agreed to these terms.
-
- This document is (c) Copyright 2002-2005 by Mark McIntyre
- Web Album Generator is (c) Copyright 2002-2005 by Mark McIntyre
- All Rights Reserved
-
-
- Contact Information
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-
- Mark McIntyre
- mark@ornj.net
- http://www.ornj.net/