This window is divided in 8 tabs, each one dealing with a part of the generated pages:
- HTML : general HTML settings as colors, headers, texts ...
- Index : index pages specific settings, as thumbs sizes, thumbs table ...
- Image : images HTML pages specific settings as navigation links, slideshow
- Plugins : are settings dealing with external user added features, as banners, frames, backplanes, ...
- Folders : defines the directory structure for each kind of file generated by MuchoThumbs.
- Tools : are external tools as renaming and resizing images
- Copyright : Tools for copyright marking on pictures
- Quicktime : Creates a quicktime movie out of the pictures in the folder
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A main feature is the possibility to store different settings and to switch between them. This is of a real help when you have different web sites or different section of the same web site to maintain and each one have different settings (colors, fonts, pictures, frame, ...)
You can store, modify or remove as much settings as you want except a default setting one that you can not modify or remove (A default factrory setting).
Choosing a setting from the menu enables those settings and will be used for all the newly generated files. |
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HTML Colors : Specifies the colors that will be used in the HTML pages that are generated by MuchoThumbs.
- Background color of the HTML pages
- Text color
- Unvisited, visited and active link color (text and image border)
HEAD, header and footer
Content and keywords are included in the HEAD section of the HTML page and are invisible to surfers, but are used by search engines when submitting your site,
Header and Footer are two text zones where you can type, paste or drop text that you want to be inserted at the top and bottom of each HTML page,
This functionnality brings many possibilities when creating thumbnails pages, when pasting HTML code, this can enale to insert some objects in your pages such as banners, quicktime movies or flash anims,
Paste text as HTML code when checked inserts the typed text as is and doesn't modify special characters (é, à, è ë...) in HTML code.
Use the same for the images.html pages : Checking here would apply these fields to the images.html pages
Custom link texts
This functionnality gives the possibility to customize the texts used in MuchoThumbs generated web pages.
These strings are : previous, next, home and slideshow. |
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Include in index pages
Type of information that will be inserted for each image in the index page
- Pages title
- Thumbnail of each image
- Descriptions typed for each image in the document window
- Images dimensions (in pixels)
- Images sizes (in bytes)
- Images names
Thumbs' options
Size defines the thumbs size and their quality (as resizing images)
Images border indicates the thickness around each image when they have links
Open links in defines where the links will be opened
- Same window
- New window (HTML) opens each link in a new window
- New window (Javascript) opens each link in a new window but with a javascript function hiding all the unnecessary toolbars...
Limit the number of images per page defines how much thumbnails will be displayed by index page, this option will create more of one index file if the number of images is greater than the fixed limit.
Thumbs' table options
Show thumbs in a table, number of columns, border and position defines how the thumbnails will be placed in a table.
You can also choose cell padding and spacing to better control your tables behavior.
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Include in image(s).html
Type of information that will be inserted in each image page
- Pages title
- Images names
- Descriptions typed for each image in the document window
- Images dimensions (in pixels)
- Images sizes (in bytes)
Resize images
Resize... : resizes all the pictures while creating the web pages. The tools tab selected settings will apply.
Images' HTML pages options
Create an HTML page per image gives you the choice to generate a HTML page per image (then the index page will link to them instead of the images).
Two options are available and give the possibilty to create ASP or PHP files that could be used in a web site.
This feature needs a PHP or ASP server to work properly and to view the resulting files.
It is now possible to create web pages using Javascript/Ajax scripts as "lightbox". It is the state of the art in showing images on the web
Navigation links are the Previous, index and Next links that you can choose to place (or not) before or after the image (or both)
Link from image personnalizes the link on the image, choices are to image, to index, to next image or to previous, to originals (the HTML image page links then to the original image that could be a Hi Res image) and to custom link (That could be a link to a store site)
Image's border is the image link border
HTML Slideshow
Make an HTML Slideshow generates files for an automatic HTML slideshow and inserts a link to that slideshow on the thumbs index pages.
Seconds per image defines how much time each image should be displayed before switching to the next.
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Plugins
These new features give the ability to customize your generated web pages with external files:
Frame is the frame that will be used around each thumbnail. Attention to choose a thumb size that fits in the frame.
Next/Previous These are next and previous images that could be used instead or in conjunction with text links.
Home is the home image that could be used in images HTML pages linking to the index file
Backplane is the backplane to be used in generated HTML files (watermark or not)
All these files must be stored in the MuchoPlugins folder (Backplanes, nextprevious, home, frames) where each user can put personnalized ones. Sample files are provided for each kind.
Banners
Pages title is the text that will be displayed at the top of each HTML page with the color, font and size specified.
Now You can choose every special font installed on your machine since MuchoThumbs has an integrated Banner engine. |
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Custom folders
This new features allows you to customize the folders used to store all the thumbs, pictures, html files ... and the folders structure.
The reference folder is the images selected folder. The syntax is very important and you have the choice between three different ones:
- a folder name : this syntax will create a subfolder at the root of the images selected folder
- ":" as a folder name : means that the root folder will be used instead of a subfolder
- an entire path : this option will define an absolute folder where you want to put the files. You can either type the path or use the "..." button to select it. Pay attention not to select a path that does not exist on your web server.
You can also define the index file(s) name in this part of the settings window. |
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Tools
Rename images : This renames and renumbers the images with the specified name and a changing index (ex : image001.jpg, image002.jpg, ...),
Change creator : Changes the creator code of the images with the one specified,
Remove icons : Removes the images' finder icons, this is usefull when images' size is an important criteria,
Create image's icons : Create all the images' icons, usefull when the size is not that important,
Resize all images : Resizes all the images by specifying one dimension and one image quality. The dimension can be specified for images' width, height, maximum dimension or by percentage.
Restore all files : Restores all the saved original files (if they were saved).
Attention, this is possible only if the option "Always backup the original ..." in the prefs windows, tab "alerts" was ckecked when modifying the pictures.
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Copyright
Add Copyright to the images : Adds a copyright text to the images by choosing the font, the transparency, the position, the font size ant the font color. Note that according to the fonts installed on your system, you can also use symbols.
Copyright image, gives the possibility to insert complex images as a copyright to your pictures. Transparency is then unavailable.
When resizing the images or adding the copyright the original images are saved in the 'originals' subfolder of the images folder.
A preview of the future watermark is now visualized in the same window  |
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Quicktime
Creates a quicktime movie with all the selected pictures
duartion : Duration of each image
Frame per effect : The number of frames the transition will last.
Quicktime export : Launches the Quicktime export. A window (see below) will popup asking for the movie settings.
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