photo layout

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:45 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> now, for how I want to do things :)
> 
> Is there a tool that'll import a bunch of photos and let me toss them
> around on various pages?
> 
> I tried scribus, but it didn't seem to like jpgs. Not that I know squat
> about using scribus...
> 
> I'd like to do something like "$the_tool *jpg &" and then clicky-clicky,
> draggy-draggy to move pictures around for a layout. I don't need text for
> this tool, but it would be cool if I had it, especially if I could
> automagically get captions or water marks that list the image's file name.
> 
> Being able to add some rough graphics and being able to do background
> images and transparency and image rotations would be helpful. Being able
> to crop would be awesome.
> 
> This will be for 30 to 50 pages of pictures, but I might soon need it for
> other stuff as well. It will be going to dead tree. Actually, I think
> it'll be going to dead dinosour as it'll probably be printed on plastics.
> 
> Maybe I should just do this with aalib and screen...  ;-)
> 
> I did recently use aalib inside screen to figure out which photo had the
> painting I wanted to look at.
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Craig