Re: Documentation is available

	I don't know about automation but I think one way of making of
making it easier to create captions would be through a CGI form. We could
have an option in cthumb to generate a thumbnail page containg textareas
where a user would add/edit the captions. Then, the page would be
submitted to another program that would generate new album with new/edited
captions. For that we'll have to split the cthumb into Perl modules.

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Artur Kedzierski                    || [email protected]
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On Sun, 18 May 2003, Carlos Puchol wrote:

> fan-tas-tic, terry!
>
> the only thing that immediately jumps at me
> is to remove urgently all references to my personal email :)
> (i hate getting my email address into spam lists.)
>
> also, note that the official cthumb list is sourceforge.
> i am waiting a while to switch off the one in my server.
>
> Terry Gliedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Please find problems and/or make improvements and send them to me (just
> > save the file, edit it and send it to me). I'll sort out the changes
> > easily enough.  At some point, Carlos, you can snatch the files (or
> > better, ask me for a TGZ file) and then integrate it into a release of
> > cthumb.
>
> most definitely. could you send the whole batch in a tgz so that
> i don't miss anything?
>
> > Myself, I'd integrate this HTML somewhere into the sourceforge web site
> > and change the man page to point to it.  You can distribute it, but I
> > think it's probably most useful for someone to just get there via
> > his/her browser -- but that's your call really.
>
> i agree, this is very useful online. but it also should be distributed in
> the source.
>
> > This clearly uses the stuff I know about and use. There are things in
> > the code I'd never heard of. I keep forgetting how to use cthumb, so
> > this is as much for me as anyone else :-)  I'd appreciate hearing from
> > people who know about something that is wrong or missing.
>
> same here. there are many features, some neat, that i hardly ever use.
>
> making albums is still painful. let me diverge a bit here ...
> i have a _ton_ of pictures to integrate into my albums.
> i have little time to put even the captions, so they stay album-less
> in my hard drive. which is a pain because they never make it online
> for friends and family. i was thinking about why that is the case.
> there are two reasons:
>
>    - too many manual steps from camera to album (online or cdrom)
>      - i like to load them with the gimp and save them right back,
>        sometimes i apply some color level enhancement so that they
>        look better. but i really do it for the disk savings.
>    - then i have to generate the album and put the captions.
>      this is a pain. i don't see any way to speed this up via some
>      sort of automation. maybe some super-slick gui to surf the
>      pictures as one types the captions. voice recognition would be
>      the fastest, but still.
>
> sorry, a late night rambling.
>
> thanks for taking the initiative terry!
>
> -c
>
>
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