ImageFolio Batch Thumbnail Mod For Pro 3.1 User's Guide

ImageFolio Batch Thumbnail Mod for Pro 3.1 User's Guide

VERSION: 3.1
LAST MODIFIED: 01/22/2003

What is the Batch Thumbnail Mod?
The Batch Thumbnail Mod is an add-on module for ImageFolio Pro 3.1 that automates the process of thumbnailing your gallery images. When called via a Web browser, this Mod will spider your entire ImageFolio gallery directory (recursively) and collect a list of images that do not already have thumbnails built. It will then thumbnail each of those large images and size them to the specifications you define in the admin_config.pl. Each thumbnail image is named to suppport the file naming conventions required for ImageFolio use. One step is all it takes to make thumbnails for thousands of your images. No effort is involved.

The Batch Thumbnail Mod will thumbnail a maximum of about 33 file types, depending on your server. To be on the safe side, try to use JPEGs for your source files. The thumbnailing rate is about 5 images for every 1 second, or 200 seconds for 1000 images.

This product requires a free third-party Image Editor called ImageMagick. ImageMagick must be installed on your server before you can use this product. For more information about ImageMagick, please visit the ImageMagick website at http://www.imagemagick.com

Special Uses
You can Run the batch Thumbnail from the admin area on selected categories only.

Installation Instructions

Unzip your IFPro31_Batch_Thumbnail_Mod_3*.zip file to a directory on your computer

You should see the following file:

cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageBatch.cgi - the script
FTP (login) to your Web server.
Upload imageBatch.cgi to the directory containing you imageFolio.cgi file.

Unix Users: Set permissions on imageBatch.cgi files to 755
Make sure you transfer both files in ASCII TEXT mode!
Using a text editor, open up imageBatch.cgi in a text editor (such as EditPlus, Notepad, or BBEdit, and change the path to Perl at the top to match that of your system, unless yours is '/usr/bin/perl'
Using a text editor, open config.pl and set "$using_batch_thumbnail_mod = 1;".
Save, then Upload all of the you modified files, back to your server.
Open your Web browser and login to the admin area. You should see a new link: "Batch Thumbnail"

Extras

Note: You may also call this script through Telnet by typing,

'perl imageBatch.cgi'

while in the directory containing imageBatch.cgi.

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