SlideShow Generator Script

mkSlideShow.pl: a little tool for generating a html-page for slideshow-applet and a html-page with thumbnails.
If you have a lot of pitures resizing every picture to a thumbnail preview size (and producing landscape orientation from portrait with black border) is quite a lot of work. This tool may help you :-)

You can choose different thumnail size and even shrink the large pictures to reduce the webtraffic. You get two html-pages - one with a running java applet of the slideshow and another with all thumbnails together for an overview or just for non java-browsers.
This script works on Linux but should be portable to other systems as well if you manage to install PerlMagick working with your ImageMagick.

> mkSlideShow.pl

> mkSlideShow.pl
`mkSlideShow.pl - 2000/07/31 - v1.2.0 - Andreas Hetey` `scan Image directory and generate 2 html-files` `o slidesh.html with java-slideshow-applet` `o pics.html html-image-file with pictures` `downsize large pictures to (600 x 800) and thumbnails to (300 x 400)` `rotate pictures before by hand !!` `----------------------------------------------------` `usage : mkSlideShow.pl [options]` `options:` `-f: option File (containing all other options mkSlideShow.pl -F for example)` `-a: size of Applet [300x400]` `-m: read Max pics (testing)` `-I: no Image manipulation (reading, writing) - just create new html-pages` `-i: Image dir` `-s: Slide dir [slides/]` `-t: Thumb dir [thumb/]` `-p: Picture size [600x800]` `-o: Output file slideshow [slidesh.html]` `-O: Output file pictures [pics.html]` `-v: verbose (show picts)` `-T: html Title [SlideShow]` `-U: image URL [http://rodin:3080/slideshow/slides/]` `-H: Homepage text [FHI Theory Department]` `-L: homepage Link [http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/th.html]` `-E: author Email [hetey@fhi-berlin.mpg.de]` `-l: Language (de,en) [en]` `example:` `mkSlideShow.pl -i bilder/ -a "200x300" -m 4 -v (view every picture)` `mkSlideShow.pl -f ../../Imgs/sofe.opt -m 2 (read options from file)` `mkSlideShow.pl -i "imgs/" -H "Xmas Party 99" -L "http://rodin:3080/slideshow/xmas/"` `mkSlideShow.pl -i "imgs/" -I (just make html-pages)`

mkSlideShow.pl - 2000/07/31 - v1.2.0 - Andreas Hetey
scan Image directory and generate 2 html-files
o slidesh.html with java-slideshow-applet
o pics.html     html-image-file with pictures
downsize large pictures to (600 x 800) and thumbnails to (300 x 400)
rotate pictures before by hand !!
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usage : mkSlideShow.pl [options]
options:
    -f: option File (containing all other options mkSlideShow.pl -F for example)
    -a: size of Applet        [300x400]
    -m: read Max pics (testing)
    -I: no Image manipulation (reading, writing) - just create new html-pages
    -i: Image dir
    -s: Slide dir             [slides/]
    -t: Thumb dir             [thumb/]
    -p: Picture size          [600x800]
    -o: Output file slideshow [slidesh.html]
    -O: Output file pictures [pics.html]
    -v: verbose (show picts)

    -T: html Title            [SlideShow]
    -U: image URL             [http://rodin:3080/slideshow/slides/]
    -H: Homepage text         [FHI Theory Department]
    -L: homepage Link         [http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/th.html]
    -E: author Email          [hetey@fhi-berlin.mpg.de]
    -l: Language (de,en)      [en]

example:
    mkSlideShow.pl -i bilder/ -a "200x300" -m 4 -v      (view every picture)
    mkSlideShow.pl -f ../../Imgs/sofe.opt -m 2          (read options from file)
    mkSlideShow.pl -i "imgs/" -H "Xmas Party 99" -L "http://rodin:3080/slideshow/xmas/"
    mkSlideShow.pl -i "imgs/" -I                        (just make html-pages)

you may want to save all the options into one option-file and then call the script like this

> mkSlideShow.pl -f ../../Imgs/sofe-03.opt

# example contents of a option file:
[dir_imgs]           /home/hetey/slideshow/Imgs/SoFe-03_Abend/
[dir_slide]          slides/
[dir_thumb]          thumb/
[file_pics]          pics.html
[file_slides]        slidesh.html
[homepage_text]      FHI
[homepage_url]       http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/th.html
[html_title]         FHI SommerFest 2000 - Evening
[image_url]          http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/Photoalbum/slideshow/SoFe2000c/slides/
[language]           en
[pic_long_side]      3000
[pic_short_side]     2000
[thumb_long_side]    400
[thumb_short_side]   300
[note]               pictures taken by Andreas Hetey and Matthias Scheffler<p>

> mkSlideShow.pl -f ../../Imgs/sofe-03.opt
`# example contents of a option file:` `[dir_imgs] /home/hetey/slideshow/Imgs/SoFe-03_Abend/` `[dir_slide] slides/` `[dir_thumb] thumb/` `[file_pics] pics.html` `[file_slides] slidesh.html` `[homepage_text] FHI` `[homepage_url] http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/th.html` `[html_title] FHI SommerFest 2000 - Evening` `[image_url] http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/th/Photoalbum/slideshow/SoFe2000c/slides/` `[language] en` `[pic_long_side] 3000` `[pic_short_side] 2000` `[thumb_long_side] 400` `[thumb_short_side] 300` `[note] pictures taken by Andreas Hetey and Matthias Scheffler<p>`

Output Examples [Top]

see Photoalbum of FHI Theory department under Slideshows ...

Program [Top]

Download

rpm-packages work on Linux

PerlScript mkSlideShow.pl
Java Applet for Slideshow CoolSlides.class (for FAQ etc. go to www.CoolSlides.com)
Image manipulating program - Image Magick imagemag-5.1.0-36.i386.rpm
Perl Modul for ImageMagick - Perl Magick plmagick-5.10-36.i386.rpm
Perl Module for determing Image Size Image-Size-2.903.tar.gz

Install

install rpm-packages:

install ImagesSize:

mkSlideShow.pl and CoolSlides.class just copy

more Information

Article about PerlMagick in the Linux Magazine (in german) http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe/1999/03/Magick/magick.html
ImageMagick Homepage http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/
PerlMagick Documentation http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/www/perl.html

Andreas Hetey - hetey@fhi-berlin.mpg.de - v0.1 - 2000/12/07