static-picture-publish

What?

This is unreleased software, despite the link you've followed here. I'm still working on version 0.1.

Creates static HTML (and XML) web pages with thumbnails from your image directories. The content is static so that you can turn off all the active parts of your web server (PHP, CGI, etc) and just serve the files.

It copies the directory structure from the source, and creates smaller versions and thumbnails in the new structure. In addition it creates index.xml and index.html files in each directory, and copies in spp.css, spp-dir.xsl and spp-image.xsl in the top level of the destination directory.

If your source directory structure is this:

/home/russells/photos
  a.jpg
  2006/
    b.jpg

you'll end up with this in the destination directory:

/var/www/photos
  spp.css
  spp-dir.xsl
  spp-image.xsl
  index.xml
  index.html
  a-thumb.jpg
  a.jpg
  a-full.jpg -> /home/russells/photos/a.jpg
  a.html
  a.xml
  2006/
    index.xml
    index.html
    b-thumb.jpg
    b.jpg
    b-full.jpg -> /home/russells/photos/2006/b.jpg
    b.html

The files in the destination directory (a.jpg and b.jpg are smaller copies of the source files. (I could have done this the other way around, with a.jpg being the small file, and a-small.jpg or something being the smaller file, but I just didn't.)

The index.xml files refer to spp.css and spp-dir.xsl files. The a.xml etc files refer to spp.css and spp-image.xsl.

The index.html and a.html etc files refer to spp.css only.

All references to stylesheets are relative, so you can put the destination tree anywhere.

There are both XML and HTML files because Internet Explorer 6 acts strangely when given a relative URL to an XSL stylesheet: if the URL to the CSS stylesheet is also relative, it then tries to load that CSS stylesheet relative to the location of the XSL sytlesheet. Firefox handles this ok. As a compromise, if you view an XML file, all links in there will be to other XML files. All links in HTML files are to other HTML files or to bare directory names.

How?

Documentation is available.

The simplest case, publishing a tree of images into a web directory:

static-picture-publish /home/russells/photos /var/www/photos

Where?

The latest (first) released version is 0.1. Several copies of it are available:

Source

Source is maintained in a git repository. Get the source with:

git clone http://adelie.cx/static-picture-publish.git

Debian package

static-picture-publish_0.1-5_all.deb. Generated on powerpc64, but should install on all architectures.

Python source package

static-picture-publish-0.1.tar.gz

Python binary package for Linux on PPC64

static-picture-publish-0.1.linux-ppc64.tar.gz