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GPL software

Gallery.py

Gallery.py is a little Python program that produces picture galleries. Gallery.py makes static web pages and is not dependent on serverside engines such as PHP or mod_perl.

Gallery.py is known to work on Linux, iMac and Windows.

The number of downloads now exceeds 5.000

At a glance

More information

Here is more information. First and foremost the manual page (for version 2). The manual is being written in DocBook format. For now I publish an HTML version. A proper manpage will be included later, when I know my way around DocBook.

• Gallery2.py manual page
• A Windows installation procedure document is available.

Requirements

• Python version 2 or better
• Python Imaging Library(PIL)

• Python version 2.1 or better
• Python Imaging Library (PIL) version 1.1.3 or better
• Optional PyXML for a SAX reader, only required if updating from xml file is used

License terms

Gallery.py is licensed under the GNU GPL 2 license. Have a look at Copyleft for further information.

Capabilities

• Makes index.html with thumbnails, thumbnail size configurable
• Makes resized pictures, picture size configurable
• Optional link to full size picture on page with resized picture
• Slideshow links on pages with resized pictures --> very easy to navigate the gallery
• Recurse through directories
• Set title from either dirname, -t option or file
• # of picture columns on index page configurable
• Define optional color scheme
• Table padding configurable
• Add pictures to gallery later. Index page and slideshow properly adjusted. Filename clashing resolved automatically

Added capabilities in 2.0 release

• Installs using Python standard distutils e.g. 'python setup.py install'
• Includes a simple GUI which works on both Unix and Windows
• Generate XML file when making gallery
• Extract date from picture EXIF data and put it in the 'date' field
• User configurable source and destination directories. Creates necessary directories and works well with --recurse option
• Link navigation to parent directory and all subdirectories with pictures
• Recognized elements in xmlfile include 'date', 'who', 'where' and 'what'
• Update gallery from updated XML file. Edit necessary text in xml files and reprocess directory hierarchy

Possible features beyond version 2.0

• Change GUI from Tkinter widgets to wxPython ones
• Edit the xml file's descriptive elements through a webinterface.

Contact me

If you have a question or comment about gallery.py, gallery2.py or this page, feel free to send an email to Per Jensen.