Web Photo Publisher Features

• Wizard-style interface
• 100% Java, runs on all platforms
• Supports .gif, .jpg and now .png () images as well
• Open Source!

• Image preview
• HTML Caption editing
• Change order of photos to be published
• Select / deselect photos to be published
• Enhanced user interface, including easier selection of folders
• Remembers most settings from previous runs, speeding up the publishing process.
• Stores captions with source photos, in .txt files
• Time-saving shortcut keys for most options
• Select All and Clear All buttons on captions panel
• Faster thumbnail loading

• Generates index page, with thumbnails
• Generates HTML pages with next/prev links
• Option to resize all portait or landscape images
• Option to output original sized images as well
• Customize number of output columns
• Option to generate multiple thumbnail pages
• Option to generate link to parent album
• Option to place detail caption above or below photo
• Option to align detail photo left, center or right

Sample Output

Download and Startup

Screenshots

Support

Revision History

• Version 0.4 - May 2, 2004
  • Minimum requirement is now JDK 1.4.1_02, which fixes a lockup bug when writing some JPEGs.
  • Added ability to generate link to parent folder for Album Index Page
  • Added support for reading PNG images.
  • Now uses JDK 1.4 ImageIO, so any vendor's JVM can be used.
  • Added shortcut keys for most options.
  • Thumbnail loading speed is now much faster.
  • Added "Select All" and "Clear All" buttons on Captions Panel.
  • Changed title on detail pages to include album title as well.
  • Added option to place detail caption above or below photo.
  • Added option to align detail photo to the left, center, or to the right.
  • Bugs fixed:
    • Removed extra empty cells on multiple index page generation
    • Fixed lock-up bug when certain errors occur during generation
• Version 0.3 - January 30, 2003
  • Moved project to sourceforge, under open source license
• Version 0.2.1ß - October 28, 2001
  • Bugfix release.
  • Bugs fixed:
    • Default image output filenames now produce valid URLs when input filename contains spaces.
    • Saving empty captions no longer creates blank txt files.
    • NullPointerException no longer thrown if last directory does not exist when starting.
    • Caption editor committed when clicking Next.
    • Various combinations of "max per page" and "number of columns" produced strange index pages (e.g. 2 and 2). This has been fixed.
• Version 0.2ß - June 29, 2001
  • Various bugfixes.
  • Output enhancements:
    • Output Page background colors are white
    • Resized images are no longer padded with empty space.
    • New output template, with nested frames
    • Detail pages are easier to navigate
    • Allows customization of number of output columns
    • Allows generation of multiple thumbnail pages.
    • Output generation is faster, especially when resizing images.
    • Added option to output original sized images as well (three-level zoom: thumbnail - custom size - original size).
  • Major user interface enhancements:
    • Added camera icon for application
    • Added persistent settings support
    • Added ability to skip intro page on future runs
    • Easier start-up from commandline. To start, simply type:
      java -classpath webphotopublish.jar WebPhotoPublish
    • Changed default look and feel to that of platform.
    • Added Pluggable Look and Feel Support through settings file (look_and_feel property).
    • Added inline directory selector for picking photo source and destination. Allows for browsing, and refreshing folders.
    • Moved album title to output options panel
    • Captions
      • Reads default captions from .txt files in the same folder as source photos.
      • Optionally writes captions to .txt files in the source folder.
    • Changed sidebar image and improved look by changing colors and fonts
    • Starts frame centered on screen.
    • Improved layout caption editing screen to provide more room for captions.
    • Added check to warn if output folder is the same as the input folder.
    • Added check to warn if there are files already in output folder.
    • Improved ability to abort generation.
    • Dramatically improved thumbnail preview speed, and added background loading of previews.
    • Added "Change Order" label to up and down arrow buttons, to clarify.
• Version 0.1ß - June 16, 2001
  • Requires JDK1.3
  • Features:
    • Preliminary work on viewer (not intergrated or public; unadvertised)
    • Wizard-style interface
    • 100% Java, runs on all platforms
    • Image preview
    • HTML Caption editing
    • Change order of photos to be published
    • Select / deselect photos to be published
    • Generates index page, with thumbnails
    • Generates HTML pages with next/prev links
    • Option to resize all portait or landscape images
  • Web Photo Publisher (title screen)
    • Shows version in frame title
  • Pick Photos
    • Supports .JPG, .GIF input files
    • Shows how many photos found
  • Rename Photos and Add Captions
    • Allows selection of which photos to be published
    • Allows changing output filename
    • Caption editing
    • Shows preview panel with thumbnail
    • Enable / disable autopreview
  • Choose Output Directory
    • Set Album Title
  • Output Options
    • Resize all output images to at least ___ by ___
    • Subbullet: Resize portait Photos to at least ___ by ___
  • Summary
    • Shows summary of what will be created
    • Generate button
    • Progress meter

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