Looking for good Photo album software...

[roddierod]

Anyone know of any good photo album type software that will allow me to print proof type sheets or arrange multiple photos of different sizes on a page so I can print them?

[DutchDaemon]

There are several in ports. Have you tried any?


graphics/albumshaper A drag-n-drop hierarchal photo album creation
graphics/cthumb A themable web picture album generator
graphics/jalbum Web photo album generator
graphics/kalbum Create albums from a collection of images
graphics/kphotoalbum Image database for KDE
graphics/zphoto Zooming photo album generator

-- web based
www/bins Tool to generate HTML photo albums with XML support
www/dalbum Free, highly customizable PHP photo album
www/gallery A slick web based photo album written using PHP
www/gallery2 Web based photo album organizer written in PHP
www/gallery3 Web based photo album organizer written in PHP
www/zope-cmfphotoalbum CMFPhotoAlbum product for Zope/CMF


Most will have some meaningful blurb in their pkg-descr files with an URL to screenshots, etc.

[roddierod]

I've ruled most of those out because they don't have the printing ability that I am really looking for.

The closest I've come to finding anything is gqview, but it bombs out when I try and print mulitple pictures unless I resize all my pictures to 800x600 then it seems to work printing multiple. But it still doesn't give me the ability to put 2 wallet size pictures and a 3x5 on the same print out for example.

I keep thinking this is something I'll have to write myself. I just don't think my wife and daughter are that patient to print out their zoo pictures :)

[DutchDaemon]

I guess you could hack something together with plain HTML, using the <img> tag with size options to generate a page with the pics you want. Just a small script which generates the HTML code, inserts the filename of the image between the <img> tags, and press 'print' in your web browser ;)
It'll probably not play nice with aspect ratios, of course.

[roddierod]

That's a good thought. I was thinking of going down the entire gimp plugin or add on to an existing app like Mirage or gqview, but I think I'll try the HTML route.

I actually had to write a PHP script that dealt with aspect ratio years ago...hopefully I still have it somewhere thanks for thanks idea!

[SeanC]

The Windows version of Picasa runs under wine (requires X and it's a resource hog).