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Photo/Image Gallery Software
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Getting started
Make sure jigl.pl in your path so it can be run from anywhere.
/usr/local/bin is always a good place.
Baisc
- Change to the directory with your images in it.
- run jigl.pl
- Check the web/ directory for your web page
- Yep. It's really that simple.
Basic with a theme
- Download or create a theme. Put it in $HOME/.jigl/themes/theme-name
- Change to the directory with your images in it.
- run jigl.pl --theme theme-name
- Check the web/ directory for your web page
Adding Captions
- Change to the directory with your images in it.
- run jigl.pl -cg This will create a gallery.dat file in the current directory.
- Edit the gallery.dat file with your favorite editor.
- Change the title of the page
- Add a header and/or footer to the index page
- Add captions to your photos
- Specify any gallery specific options
- When you're done editing the file, save it and rerun jigl.pl
- Check the web/ directory for your web page
Multiple directories
- Run jigl.pl dir1 dir2 ... dirN
- Or run jigl.pl -cg dir1 dir2 ... dirN the -cg option will cause a gallery.dat file to be created in each directory.
- If you created the gallery.dat files for each directory, edit and save them.
- Rerun jigl.pl dir1 dir2 ... dirN
- If you have a directory with many picture directories underneath it you can now run: jigl.pl -r topLevelDir
- Or run jigl.pl -r -cg topLevelDir to create a gallery.dat file in each sub directory.
- If you created the gallery.dat files for each directory, edit and save them.
- Rerun jigl.pl -r topLevelDir
Adding a watermark to the slides
- Create your watermark image. I like to use .png files because you can make nice semi-transparent images.
- In a directory with images run jigl.pl -ws -wf path/to/watermark_file This will place the watermark image over all of the slide images. The default location for the watermark is in the "southeast" corner of the image. Use the -wg option to specify a different location if desired.