Introduction
matew, acronym for Make Album The Easy
Way, is a BASH
script. Its aim is to generate static valid HTML/CSS image albums.
Features
- Albums can contain sub albums: The album can have a tree structure;
- Automatical generation of a thumbnail and of scaled images for each image;
- EXIF information: Use of EXIF data structure found on some image files (usually, those produced by digital cameras and image's softwares manipulation) to fill automatically some fields (camera model, date and time for example);
- Easy to use matew-wizard script to set the configuration file. Some of the fields it handles are:
- Character encoding for HTML generation, including UTF-8 (Unicode) support by default;
- Generated album appearance is customizable by choosing a default CSS style files or editing your own one;
- Internationalization (generation of album in different languages) by choosing a language file. Current supported languages are english, brazilian portuguese, italian, sweden and croatian;
- Support for a standard link to an external file;
- Thumbnails per page: You can choose how many thumbnails per column and per line the album will visualize.
- Three description fields (name, description and image identifier) can be associated with each album (in text or HTML format). You can easily customize these fields.
Documentation
Download
matew can be downloaded from its
SourceForge File List page.
For the development release you can
browse
its SourceForge SVN repository or directly download the source code:
$ svn co https://matew.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matew matew
Further information about the usage of SourceForge SVN repository
here.
License
matew is released under the terms of the
General Public License v2.
Examples
Contacts
Feel free to contact
me
for comments, suggestions, bug reports or patches.