| Q: |
Where can I find an
answer not listed here? |
| A: |
The best place to look is
the Thumbs forums.
Click here. |
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| Q: |
Can I customize the HTML Thumbs generates? |
| A: |
Of course, just load it
into any text editor or html editor and edit away.
Be aware though that if you run Thumbs again on the same
folder tree it will erase your changes. A better
solution might be to create your own templates. See
the next question |
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| Q: |
Can I customize the way Thumbs generates
HTML? |
| A: |
Yes. Since version
3.0 you can create templates. Templates specify 100%
of the HTML that thumbs generates. See Making
Templates |
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| Q: |
How is Thumbs able to not generate
thumbnails for thumbnails it has already generated? |
| A: |
Thumbs assumes it's free
to manage all the files inside folders called thumbs_d.
It does not generated thumbnails for images inside those
folders. |
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| Q: |
What file formats does Thumbs
support? |
| A: |
Thumbs currently supports
.JPG
as read by the Intel
JPEG library and .MPG as read by DirectShow
in Windows and .MOV/.QT/.PNG/.PSD/.TGA/.TIF/.SGI/.RGB/.BMP files as read by Quicktime. |
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| Q: |
Why are MPG files not shown in the
slideshow? |
| A: |
Because there is no
browser independent
way to do this. |
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| Q: |
Why is there no option to put the
thumbnails someplace other than in the same place as the
original images? |
| A: |
Because the point of Thumbs is to make
something that's easy to copy to a CD or a webpage.
As it is, you can copy just one tree of folders to a CD or
webpage and it will work.
If you don't want Thumbs to put the thumbnails in the same
place then make a copy of your image folders and run
Thumbs on the copy. |
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| Q: |
How do I make my CD
autorun? |
| A: |
See Making
an autorunning CD |
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| Q: |
How do I deal with the
fact that CD filenames can only be 64 characters and yet I
want to give my pictures very long names that are
descriptive of the picture? When I make a CD those
names get shortened and everything stops working |
| A: |
See Shorts |
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| Q: |
How do I overcome the
case-sensitive problems of the web? |
| A: |
Most web servers are
case-sensitive. This means that if you have an image
called "MyImage.JPG" and you have Thumbs
generate thumbnails for you, by default Thumbs will
not change the case of any files and will reference your
file as "MyImage.JPG".
The problem is that when you upload these these images
to a web server, often the case will get changed so that
"MyImage.JPG" might get uploaded as "myimage.jpg"
or "MYIMAGE.JPG" or "Myimage.jpg" at
which point your pages will no longer work because the
page will be looking for "MyImage.JPG" but it
will not exist.
You have three choices,
- Find software that will make sure the case gets
uploaded correctly. Maybe at Tucows
- Tell Thumbs to rename everything lowercase
To do this run Thumbs, click Options, click the
"Build Options" tab, then check "Make
Filenames all lowercase"
Note: this option will rename all your images in place
so for example "TheBigPartyPicture.JPG" will
become "thebigpartypicture.jpg". If
you don't want to lose the capital letters but you
still need thumbs to use all lowercase for a web site
then make a copy of your image folders and run Thumbs
on the copy.
NOTE: do not use this option on non-English alphabets
- Use this
software I wrote to fix this problem. Shorts.
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