Introduction
fpgg stands for Feline Picture Gallery Generator – and that’s exactly what it is. What makes fpgg to stand out from other similar programs? I’m not sure, but it allows me to do exactly what I want to do.
Features
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First of all, fpgg uses templates for generating galleries. Templates are
nothing new – quite the opposite – but together with
build_html.pl, generated galleries are seamlessly integrated to
the rest of your website. It’s designed (read: evolved) that way!
fpgg allows (and requires) user to input metadata about each picture. At minimum, this metadata consists of title for the picture. Apart from a simple title, each picture can be given abritary description, zero or more picture categories, and link to an online map.
Description can be HTML-formatted, and may contain limited set of macros to link to other pictures in gallery.
Requirements
fpgg is written in Perl, and it uses ImageMagick to resize images and to acquire their dimensions. In addition, md5sum is used to identify images and spot any changes between runs.
Documentation
Documentation of fpgg in included in the distribution package
as DocBook XML-file and PDF. There also exists occasionally updated
online version, created with docbook2html. Documentation still lacks
decent examples, so until its done, you can have a look at example
setup.
Demonstration
As mentioned above, fpgg was written to fill a need. Also working as demo for fpgg, galleries for my personal travel photographs are created with fpgg.
Download
bzip2-compressed tar-balls of checked out Subversion repository exist.