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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Web page wizard
« on: 2018-06-30 17:38:08 »
> > so no pictures can be seen in the browser! This bug is much older than a year, I told it one and a half year before, it was recognized - but never corrected.
>
> That's not good.. if I were you, I'd send a gentle reminder to support@cerious.com.

I've send them another mail these days - but got no answer.

I believe, they are absolutely dead and not interested in feeding their earlier customers with useful working versions of their software.

Obviously I must search for some other software with active devolopers.

Johannes Leckebusch

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Web page wizard
« on: 2018-06-26 14:27:51 »
Î downloaded the version 10 SP2 Build 4015 and again tried to create web pages from galleries with it ...

Still it is not possible just to generate a web gallery with the option "current folder", but with "Selected files only" and selecting all files ... it starts.

But then there is still an old, trivial bug: I select tif files (corrected with Adobe PS) and use the option "Convert images to .jpg". Running the process, it generates the htm-files in the selected directories, converts the .tif to .jpg, creates the thumbnail pages, but the links in the htm-files for the single pictures to show are:

image_nrx.tif

not

image_nrx.jpg,

so no pictures can be seen in the browser! This bug is much older than a year, I told it one and a half year before, it was recognized - but never corrected.

What is the problem with such a simple bug?

Johannes Leckebusch, Germany/Bavaria

Lots of web galleries, still created with TP 7 Pro:

http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/Alltag54/index.htm

reachable from:

http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/alltag.html

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> > Can you tell me where and how I exactly find these entries in the German version of TP 7?
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> No, but it works differently in TP7 anyway.
>
> In TP7, you would go to File | Database | User Fields, and create a new user field with these properties:
>
> Label: Original Date/Time
> Type: Text
> Length: 23
>
> From then on, when you make thumbnails, ThumbsPlus will store the creation date of images in this user field (if the images have the creation date in their EXIF info). For images that already have a thumbnail, you will have to re-make the thumbnail.
>
> To make the user field visible in thumbnail listings, go to Options | Show for Files | User Fields | Original Date/Time. When it's visible, you can also sort the thumbnail listing on this field.

Yes, I've got it whorking now ...

Thank you for the hints.

-Johannes

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Hi, I also tried this some days before!

> Hi and sorry for the delay!
>
> > That's the thing, I think the data is there, it's just not populating the "Date Taken" field in TP.
>
> I see! Yes, it certainly seems to be there.
>
> Do these 20 images have something in common, for instance were they produced by the same camera or edited using the same software (whereas the other images that work correctly were not)?
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> This is a very long shot, but have you tried if these two settings affect the population of 'date taken' when a thumbnail is made:
> - Options | Preferences | Metadata: Automatically Populate User Fields..
> - Options | Preferences | Metadata: Convert Dates to Windows format

Can you tell me where and how I exactly find these entries in the German version of TP 7?

There is an "Optionen" Menü, then "Grundeinstellungen", but there I cannot find something like "Metadata" ...

>  
> (They shouldn't be relevant, but they may tie in with the same code that populates Date Taken)
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> > With all that said, if 20 files have no Date Taken info, and I have Date Modified as the second sort value, why isn't it sorting by this field, which does have data?
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> Yes, that's puzzling. Maybe they still have 'some' data but it's invalid?  
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> > So, it just feels broken to me.  I have to assume it's just me, since I can't imagine that others wouldn't be complaining about wrong sorting; it's just such a basic part of any database or informational structure.
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> Not that many people use this forum - and with some exceptions, Cerious' staff doesn't monitor it either. But it certainly looks like something that should be looked into before v11 goes into beta! So, if you can spare a few minutes, my recommendation is that you report this problem by e-mail to support@cerious.com. Use the word 'ThumbsPlus' in the subject line, explain it briefly, attach one of the image files that doesn't get its creation date copied, and point to this thread.

-Johannes

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I'l hope so ...

Meanwhile I've detected the reason for the errors with TP7 (a microsoft access driver error), respectively removed a "user field" that produced them obviously. So I will continue to use the database and web-galleries some more time with TP 7 ...

> Same situation here.
>
> Seemingly at the moment no means are provided to migrate the TP7 Database ("Access" Format) to the native file-based database used in the recent TP version and which overcomes the 2 GB limit. (Supposedly this is because the next major release of TP will use a faster database format and migrating huge databases makes more sense at that point in time.
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> For migrating my web-galleries I think I will need to invest some work to revise the templates and creation parameters.

You also have problems to migrate them without revising them? But there exists no documentation what to do in this context?

> I always use TP galleries as the source for the Web-galleries to manage the content. But I am positive that migrating the database will keep the TP galleries intact.
>
> -Michael

-Johannes

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About 10 years ago I got a job, which included to reprograph and archivate hundreds of pictures and documents. At that time (about 2006/2007) I looked for a program to organize this - and detected ThumbsPlus (I don't remember the version number at that time).

Some times later I decidet to use it also for my own digital photography and also for building websites for other customers.

I had sometimes problems, but they could be resolved more or less perfect every time, and I did very much efforts to perfect and maintain my libraries and some of my customers. The use of flexible galleries is very important and essential for that.

For many years I'm now using the german version of ThumbsPlus 7 Professional. But it is somewhat out of time - for example, it cannot handle UTF character encoding in comments and descriptions of entries.

In the last years I have made some efforts to upgrade to TP 8, TP 9, and now TP 10 - and never succeded. There are no more German versions after TP 7, and some problems occur with different file extension names between the German and the English version of the program. This is probably nowhere documented, but with hours of looking and trying one seems to be able to find all that out.

Now TP 10 is able to convert direct the database format from TP 7, what earlier was very terrible (via .txt-Files or so), so I could really fast convert to TP 10 as database manager.

But what I never, never, never succeded was the transformation of all my Webgalleries, and they are a very great and important part of it all.

So I'm now at the very last (!!!) time to decide, if I should kill ThumbsPlus at all and look for other tools, or get in the next one or two weeks the solution for moving all my work to an actual and living (?) version.


You can find with ThumbsPlus generated galleries there:

[link=http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/index.html]http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/index.html[/link]
[link=http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/SommerIrschenberg2012/index.htm]http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/SommerIrschenberg2012/index.htm[/link]
(...)

[link=http://www.foto.ungruen.de/index2.html]http://www.foto.ungruen.de/index2.html[/link]
[link]http://www.foto.ungruen.de/Menschen%20und%20Farben/index.htm[/link]
(...)

[link]http://www.modebayrischzell.net/MODE_und_mehr/Willkommen.html[/link]
[link]http://www.modebayrischzell.net/MODE_und_mehr/Mode/Seiten/Damen/index.htm[/link]
(...)

and some more. I've nearly 200.000 entries in my database, and hundreds of galleries ... and it would be really hard to give all that up und look for another solution.

But if I cannot get the whole maintenace, especially of the galleries, working with an actual and supportet version, I must do so.

It would be very kind, if someone could help me with that.

Greetings from southern Germany/Bavaria:

[link]http://www.johannes-leckebusch.de/Fotogalerien/FeuerhimmelIrschenberg/index.htm[/link]

Thank you very much for any help - Johannes

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / .tif-images in web page wizard
« on: 2017-01-12 18:09:00 »
> > If I use a gallery with some .tif pictures to generate a web page, TP10 will generate the needed html files, the thumbnail overviews, and .htm-pages for every image. It also generates .jpg-Files and copies them into the folder for the webpage. But in the source for the pages, where it should replace the metatag {{image}} with the link to the actual picture, there always appears "imagex.tif", "imagey.tif", "imagez.tif" instead of "imagex.jpg", "imagey.jpg" and so on.
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> Are you sure that you activated the "Convert Images" option on the "Linking to Images" page of the web wizard? I think the JPGs that you saw generated were only the thumbnails.

It generates the thumbnails (and correct links to them) and the pictures (but no correct links to them).

> > So the images will not be displayed. If I let it not convert the pictures to .tif, I get a line with the correct link (imagex.tif), but the browser will not display it
>
> Browsers don't usually support TIF files.

Yes, of course, I know that ...

> The three generally accepted image formats on the WWW are GIF, JPG and PNG. If you're not in control of the browsers that will be used to visit your pages, use one of those three formats.

I've tried PNG also ... same problem.

> > Another little problem: Marking "Current folder" on the page "Input Files" does not always work, but it shows "3 pages" (for example)*; only marking "selected files" generates a number of webpages (and I must always mark the thumbnails in the overwiew).
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> Maybe this has something to do with your using a gallery rather than a folder?

In Version 7 this didn't make a difference in this point.

> I haven't tested your findings. But then, you've already defined a table that can contain a known number of thumbnails (X columns x Y rows), so as long as you know how many images you're working with, even without this indicator you'll know how many pages will be generated.

The program predicts, how many pages it would generate, when selected "current folder", but than says, it didn't find any files, when it should generate them, when they are not preselected. This was not necessesary in TP 7.

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / .tif-images in web page wizard
« on: 2017-01-12 15:50:32 »
If I use a gallery with some .tif pictures to generate a web page, TP10 will generate the needed html files, the thumbnail overviews, and .htm-pages for every image. It also generates .jpg-Files and copies them into the folder for the webpage. But in the source for the pages, where it should replace the metatag {{image}} with the link to the actual picture, there always appears "imagex.tif", "imagey.tif", "imagez.tif" instead of "imagex.jpg", "imagey.jpg" and so on.

So the images will not be displayed. If I let it not convert the pictures to .tif, I get a line with the correct link (imagex.tif), but the browser will not display it (you can only download the image when clicking with the mouse on it).

I cannot find out how to tell TP 10 to change the image-name suffix. In Version TP 7 Professional (German Version) this always worked fine.

If I use already .jpg-Files als Source with the same (!) schemes for web pages, it works fine in TP 10 also.

Another little problem: Marking "Current folder" on the page "Input Files" does not always work, but it shows "3 pages" (for example)*; only marking "selected files" generates a number of webpages (and I must always mark the thumbnails in the overwiew).

* It says: "Unable to find any files in your selection to process for Web Page Wizard".

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