How to display multiple images in date sequence by file date?

[Brian Cluff]

If it is a contact sheet you are looking for, I would again recommend 
gwenview.  Just make sure you have the kipi plugins installed in 
addition to gwenview.  Sort the images by date like in my previous 
message and then do a select all, or select a subset of the messages 
that you want to make contact sheets for; then go to Plugins -> Images 
-> Print Assistant.

A new window will eventually pop up (The more pictures you select the 
longer it will take, but it should be fairly quick).  Click "Page 
settings" on the upper right and select "letter", or whatever you would 
like, then select a page layout from the left hand side of the page. 
You will see a preview on the right side.  You can then select whatever 
you would like to caption the images with, if anything and on a per 
image basis if you would like.  When you have to looking like you would 
like just do a print to PDF or print to JPG and you are done.

Brian Cluff

On 06/24/2015 05:24 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> To do something like that you're probably going to need to use image magick or a similar tool.
>
> It sounds like you want to do a contact sheet or filmstrip rather than a slideshow.
>
> The Image Magick "montage" command is made for this purpose, it's documented here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/montage.php
> You'd replace the for loop with something like this:
>
> montage $(ls -1t) -tile x1 ../filmstrip.png
>
> (note, I use the number 1, not the letter l in the option to ls, I mistyped last time).
>
> That would create a single output image (probably large) with all the input images lined up.  You could follow that with a display command and, optionally, delete the filmstrip if you don't want to keep it.
> It could take a very long time to generate and display that filmstrip at full size, so you might want to resize the images at the same time:
>
> montage $(ls -1t) -tile x1 -size 512x512 ../filmstrip.png
>
> There are a ton of other options (including -coalesce if you really just want an animation of the images), so it's worth reading the documentation.
>
>
> On 06/24/2015 03:17 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>> Todd suggested:
>>> drop the l in the -lt ... or do it a-like-so:
>>> for filename in `ls -lt | awk '{print $NF-2 $NF-1 $NF}'`; do (etc)
>>
>> Thanks Todd. I tried your suggestion and it gave the same
>> error as Joseph's script. By experimenting, I discovered
>> that if I removed the quotation marks around "$filename"
>> it worked somewhat.
>>
>> However, both scripts put all of the images on top of one
>> another.
>>
>> So, how can I modify these scripts so the images will
>> *not* all be on top of one another but will be separated
>> out in some way, perhaps one after another on a line?
>>
>>
>> ====================
>> Joe originally asked:
>> I have a directory/folder that contains several
>> dozen image files, all with different file dates.
>>
>> How can I create a script that would display the images
>> that those files represent (not just list the files)
>> in date sequence from newest to oldest?
>>
>> ---------------
>> Joseph Sinclair first replied (in part):
>> for filename in "$(ls -lt)" ; do display-image "$filename" ; done
>> replace display-image with your preferred image display tool.
>>
>> ---------------
>> Joe replied to Joseph: That  script is exactly what I wanted,
>> but sadly, it didn't work for me.  What did I do wrong?
>> When I put 7 small images in a folder to try that script,
>> I got the result shown here:
>> - - http://www.upquick.com/temp/decode.error.jpg
>>
>>
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