Hi, Michael.

See links and comments below.
Hope I didn't raise any false hopes of product quality!

Victor wrote:
>P.S., I have a handy Perl script that generates an
>index file for a directory, and another that uses the
>Gimp to generate thumbnails for a directory full of
>images.

Michael wrote:
 > Pass the script!!

OK.  This is raw stuff, not a product.

These were customized to process the pictures on photo CDs
from Wal-Mart, with some funky coded file names.

Here's the thumbnail generator:
   <http://members.cox.net/vodhner/thumbgen.pl>
... I forget where I got this, but Google brought it up.
I would cd into my directory full of .jpg files and then

   thumbgen.pl *.jpg

You need to create the "thumbs" sub-directory ahead of time.
There are some features I commented out.
I notice that the LISP code includes "file-jpeg-load", so
this must be JPEG specific.  I haven't done any LISP since
1984, so I'm no help there.  Google might take you to more
information just based on the name.

Here's my index file generator:
   <http://members.cox.net/vodhner/indexgen.pl>
Again, cd into the directory containing the .jpg files and

   indexgen.pl *.jpg

Notice that the <title> is hard coded.
The program assumes you have generated the thumbnails in the
./thumbs directory.
It boils the file name down to a simpler ID that is
displayed next to the image, but it also displays the full
file name as a tool tip.

BTW, here is the end result:  our friends' house pictures.
They were back in Virginia while we were watching their house
being built in Anthem:  <http://www.tinaa.com/~vodhner/hara/>.
Of course my Cox site (plus my wife's share) did not have
room for all of these pictures, so my son let me stow it
at his place.

And in case you wondered, Tinaa Is Not An Acronym.

Vic

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