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No Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: dgennetten on December 10, 2004, 07:36:04 pm

Title: Summary of Slideshow mods, flash, direct printing...
Post by: dgennetten on December 10, 2004, 07:36:04 pm
I'm new to Coppermine (recent convert from 4Images (http://4homepages.de/) land) . 

I'm looking for a summary of all available CPG slideshow/flash/swf mods and development activities.

I'm very interested in finding or ultimately contributing to a general purpose album-XML generator that would easily service the large and growing collection of XML-driven photo presentation utilities.  In searching, I'm finding that there are several folks here working with similar ideas. I expect that I am not aware of all the related activity.  Here are some thoughts of mine:

MPV: The MultiPhotoVideo (MPV (http://www.osta.org/mpv/public/specs.htm)) standard is catching on and is an obvious XML format for a general photo presentation layer in CPG. If there was a mod that generated MPV Presentation Profile (http://www.osta.org/mpv/public/specs/MPVPres-Profile-Spec-1.01.pdf) albums, there are a growing collection of well-designed players that could be immediatly used with CPG.

SWF Albums: As I'm sure many are aware, there is a growing array of very-cool XML-driven swf/Flash albums available. My favorite is exposé from slooz (http://www.slooz.com/photos.php) (see Trinkets:exposé (http://www.slooz.com/trinkets.php?proj=expose)).  A quick hack to support exposé would be quite popular, I bet. Especially version 4 (http://www.slooz.com/photos.php). There's an interesting thread (http://4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13806) over at 4Images on their foray into album/xml generation and the resulting mod. 4Images keeps their images in a file structure which is particularly convenient for XML-driven presentation tools. Is it also be easy with CPG?

XHTML-print: To my knowledge, no one is yet exploiting the much improved photo-quality printing possibilities of current generation browsers. Rich multi-up template-based printing would be a terrific addition to any album. There are even standards which can now be exploited to this end: the W3C XHTML-print (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/) work. This work is being incorporated into the new Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium's (MIPC) (http://www.mobileprinting.org/home) futures and new printers are now appearing which take XHTML-print content directly from mobile devices.  Another good resource: xhtml-print.org (http://www.xhtml-print.org/)

Any feedback or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Douglas