album2gallery.pl v1.6 (was: psa2gallery.pl v1.2)

dlaporte

Joined: 2003-08-03
Posts: 11
Posted: Wed, 2003-11-26 23:12

I've released album2gallery.pl v1.6, a perl script to export Photoshop and Jasc Photo Albums to gallery. It now supports Photoshop Album 2.0 and Jasc Photo Album 4. I've rewritten much of the script to make additional album program support fairly simple - please let me know if you'd like to have support for other programs added.

The script is available at http://www.laportestyle.org/tools.php and includes installation instructions.

David
 
mhjackson123

Joined: 2003-12-01
Posts: 7
Posted: Mon, 2003-12-01 06:34

This script is great - I have tried it with both PSA and PSPA and both work great. I would vote for adding ACDsee support if possible. I think Ulead also has an album program.
I think it would be good to post a partial idiot's guide to installing perl and configuring it to add the neccessary modules. When I first tried, I made the mistake of adding .pm to the module names and the package manager could not find the modules...
 
paour
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Joined: 2002-08-14
Posts: 1479
Posted: Wed, 2003-12-03 01:49

I've updated the URL to your script on this page.
 
dlaporte

Joined: 2003-08-03
Posts: 11
Posted: Sat, 2003-12-06 03:59

I've released version 1.7 which includes support for ThumbsPlus 6. If anyone has any other album programs you'd like supported, please let me know.

thanks,
David
 
damen

Joined: 2004-01-10
Posts: 2
Posted: Sat, 2004-01-10 10:51

Hi David,

Thanks for your great script! There is just one thing that puzzles me, how is the order of the photo's generated? The photo's are uploaded in an completely different order than in my photoalbum or even the filenames? Is it possible to change this, i.e. that it takes the alphabetically order of the filenames?

Tnx, Martijn
 
dlaporte

Joined: 2003-08-03
Posts: 11
Posted: Mon, 2004-01-12 00:09

Martin,

Thanks for the feedback! In case anyone is interested, the script is now on version 1.9 and supports several album programs as well as directories of images (pulling captions from EXIF data). But to answer your question...

The image order is most likely based on the order the photos were imported into your album program since they are pulled via a SQL query from album's database (the newer the image, the later in the list it'll be). Depending on how the album program handles the datebase, the order could also be completely arbitrary.

What I could do is add an option to specify whether images should be ordered based on filename, capture date, file import date, or whatever other relevant criteria could be used.

thanks,
Dave
 
damen

Joined: 2004-01-10
Posts: 2
Posted: Tue, 2004-01-13 18:44

David, Thanks for the reply. Such a option would be great ofcourse!! Looking forward for it ;-) You've certainly got a beta tester ready to roll !
 
dlaporte

Joined: 2003-08-03
Posts: 11
Posted: Wed, 2004-01-14 05:08

You can find the new version of the script (2.0) on my website at:

http://www.laportestyle.org/tools/album2gallery

The next version will have support for recursive uploading - basically allowing you to upload a hierarchy of albums by specifying the parent. That will take some major code changes, so it'll be a little while...

Let me know if you find any bugs :)

thanks,
Dave