jigl	Photo/Image Gallery Software Linux & Windows 2K/XP	jigl @ xome . net
Jason's Image Gallery

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This is an archived project jigl was written in the early 2000's and is no longer maintianed. This page is being left up as an archive for those who may still have interest. Thanks to everyone who helped with this project!

Thanks go to...

Dennis Jackson - Thanks for the countless ideas and for all the work and testing you've done (and still do) on the windows front.

Christine Jamiol - Xome's system administrator. You've put up with a lot of nagging.

About

Read the little blurb Linux Journal wrote about jigl in the August, 2003 issue! About half way down the page.

jigl (pronounced jiggle) is a perl script that generates a static html photo gallery from one or more directories of gif/jpg/png images. It supports themes and is very customizable. It includes the ability to display comments and EXIF info for each image in a simple clean layout.
 
jigl is written completely from scratch but the idea is heavily based on the program igal. igal did much of what I wanted, but there were a number of things I didn't like about it and found it difficult to modify. I wanted a cleaner solution, and thus jigl was born.
 
Features
Some notable features that jigl supports are:

• jigl is one file - minimizing files for installation and maintenance.
• Optional info page with EXIF info from photo.
• Optional automatic watermarking of the slides.
• Control of where watermark is placed on the slides.
• Smart file creation, meaning thumbnails and slides won't be regenerated if they don't need to be.
• Easily handles multiple directories
• Recursive directory traversing.
• Automatic image rotation when available.
• Create slide comments from EXIF comments.
• Multiple index pages for those really big galleries.
• Cross platform Linux/Windows 2k/XP. Really any OS that is supported by perl, ImageMagick and jhead
• Smart options via a global options file, a local gallery file, and the command line.
• Each gallery has control of its own options via the gallery.dat file.
  • Allows easy method of adding title/header/footer text to index page.
  • Single place for image captions.
  • Save options for individual albums for later recreation if necessary
• New in v2.0!Full theme support.
• New in v2.0!Output directory for final webpage.
• Generates static pages for album distribution (a CD for grandma!)
• Who can forget a name that's fun to say as a verb!