# Images Gallery

Gilles
Caulier

    caulier dot gilles at free.fr

Gerhard
Kulzer

    gerhard at kulzer.net

The Kipi images gallery plugin is a tool for exporting a set of Albums to an HTML page.

KDE
Kipi

# Introduction

This powerful plugin can export your Albums into a HTML page compliant to 4.01 version for web publication in the form of an image gallery. You can easily select the Albums to export in an HTML page and set a big parameters list for the HTML rendering. UTF-8 encoding is used for a best internationalization.

You can see some samples building with this plugin at this url.

## Collections Selection Dialog

The plugin has four tabs to adapt the settings. The Selection tab allows you to select all Albums you want to export to HTML. Just check the respective Albums (they are displayed without hierarchical nesting). The three buttons to the right help to quickly select large amounts of Albums. The frame below shows the Album ID-picture with the text that will appear as a header of the HTML page.

### The Collections Selection Dialog

## Look Settings Dialog

The Look tab defines the general look and layout of each page. This tab is largely self-explanatory. The Create pages for each image check box will create a gallery with a HTML page per image, that is, if you click onto an image a new page will open showing the image within the web browser. If you leave this box unchecked clicking the images will directly open them with the default image viewer, e.g. Kuickshow.

### The Look Settings Dialog

## Album Settings Dialog

The Album tab defines the settings of where and how to store the gallery with all its associated images. Select a folder with write access where you want the gallery to be written to. A sub-folder named KIPIHTMLExport will be created containing everything.

When you check the Resize target images box you can fix the maximum target image size (in pixels) with the slider below it. Images bigger than this value will be scaled down to it, smaller images will not be modified. The next two check boxes allow you to set specific image compression features. If disk space is of concern check the target image compression and lower the compression level from the host application default value. Then you can choose between JPEG (smallest filesize, but lossy) and PNG (lossless and free license) formats.

If JPEG file format is selected for target resizing images, all EXIF informations will be preserved from original JPEG files.

With the Set different color depth check box you can change the default color depth. This will of course influence the filesize. The rest of the setting are rather self-explanatory.

### The Album Settings Dialog

## Thumbnails Settings Dialog

The Thumbnails tab allows to set some of the Album tab settings for the thumbnails (that are the small images shown in the gallery).

### The Thumbnails Settings Dialog

## Images Gallery in Action

A progress dialog giving a feedback indicate to user. Press Cancel button during this stage if you want abort the process.

### The Images Gallery Plugin in Action

When all jobs are completed, this dialog will not closed automaticly and user can consult the progress messages if any errors occurs durring this stage. The web browser will be started automaticly at end to display a gallery preview. Press Close button to close dialog.

### The Images Gallery Preview in Konqueror