Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.108.254.3!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: ANNOUNCE: WebMagick Image Web Generator Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 2 Apr 1997 20:40:32 GMT Organization: posted via: CyberRamp.net, Dallas, TX (214) 340-2020/(817) 226-2020 for info Lines: 78 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5hug80$b66$1@nadine.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:144 comp.lang.perl.misc:22667 WebMagick Image Web Generator WebMagick is a package which supports making image collections available on the Web. It recurses through directory trees, building HTML pages, imagemap files, and client-side/server-side maps to allow the user to navigate through collections of thumbnail images (somewhat similar to xv's Visual Schnauzer) and select the image to view with a mouse click. WebMagick is based on the "PerlMagick" ImageMagick PERL extension rather than external ImageMagick utilities (as its predecessor "Gifmap" is). This alone is good for at least a 40% performance increase on small images. WebMagick supports smart caching of thumbnails to speed montage generation on average size images. After a first pass at "normal" speed, successive passes (upon adding or deleting images) are 5X to 10X faster due to the caching. WebMagick supports a very important new feature in its caching subsystem: it can create and share a thumbnail cache with John Bradley's 'xv' program. This means that if you tell 'xv' to do an update, WebMagick montages will benefit and you can run WebMagick as a batch job to update xv's thumbnails without having to wait for 'xv' to do its thumbnail reduction (and get a browsable web besides!). WebMagick requires the ImageMagick (3.8.4 or later) and PerlMagick (1.0 or later) packages as well as a recent version of PERL 5. Obtain PERL version 5 from the Perl Language Home Page at "http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html". Install PERL according to its installation instructions. Obtain ImageMagick from "ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick" (you may want the LZW version in the 'lzw' subdirectory) or visit the ImageMagick web page at "http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html". Obtain PerlMagick from "ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/perl" or visit the PerlMagick web page at "http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/www/perl.html". The WebMagick LSM is attached. Begin3 Title: WebMagick Image Web Generator Version: 1.17 Entered-date: 31MAR97 Description: WebMagick is a package which supports making image collections available on the Web. It recurses through directory trees, building HTML pages, imagemap files, and client-side/server-side maps to allow the user to navigate through collections of thumbnail images (somewhat similar to xv's Visual Schnauzer) and select the image to view with a mouse click. WebMagick is written in PERL and is compatable with PERL version 5.002 and later. WebMagick uses the ImageMagick package and the PERL extension to ImageMagick (PerlMagick) and therefore requires that these packages be installed. Keywords: Web, ImageMagick, PERL, PerlMagick, graphics, GIF, JPEG Author: bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn) Maintained-by: bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn) Primary-site: http://www.cyberramp.net/~bfriesen/webmagick/dist/ 97 kb webmagick-1.17.tar.gz Alternate-site: ftp.wizards.dupont.com /pub/ImageMagick/perl 97 kb webmagick-1.17.tar.gz Platforms: Reqires UNIX, PERL, ImageMagick, and PerlMagick Copying-policy: Freeware End ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us (Home) bfriesen@spd.dsccc.com (Work) thefuzz@bix.com (On BIX) http://www.cyberramp.net/~bfriesen .