Tool for creating thumbnail graphics archive?

[Earl Young]

     An approach is go the the software libraries of ZD-NET.COM and 
     CNET.COM.  They each have several pages of graphics routines - some of 
     which are freeware.  ULEAD also makes a professional graphics product 
     - fairly cheap ($200 or so?) - that generates a page of thumbnails on 
     the fly when you click into a directory.  Picture Publisher 5.0 (there 
     are newer versions as I understand it) also gerates thumbnails upon 
     request.
     
     There is a lot of shareware on cnet.com and zdnet.com that will do 
     graphics tricks.  Most of it is Windows oriented.
     
     A program called htmlimg (as I recall) from the University of Geneva 
     will make an html page on the fly which displays the .jpg and .gif 
     files in a directory through an internet browser.  It is available on 
     zdnet.  It's freeware, and though it doesn't generate thumbnails, it 
     does a good job of displaying lots of graphics files.
     
     The most flexible overall viewer I have found is acdsee - also 
     available on cnet and zdnet.  It is shareware - costs about $30 for a 
     full copy - and does not generate thumbnails.  But it will do 
     slideshows and allows you to sort, select, move, copy and delete files 
     on the fly.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Tool for creating thumbnail graphics archive?
Author:  SCHNEIDER.KAREN at epamail.epa.gov at INTERNET
Date:    3/6/97 9:59 AM


Hi, folks, I was wondering if there was a  software package we 
could buy (freeware is fine, of course) which would help us 
create webpages to display thumbnails of graphics.  We are not
loooking to create a massive digital library (today the NY office of 
the EPA--tomorow the world?) but rather are looking for a tool to 
automate creating a webpage intended to help staff select
graphics for use in agency webpages.  We can do this by hand, 
of course, but if we can actually use software to enhance 
productivity, by gum that's the way to go.  If you're 
recommending stuff, our server is Unix-based and we work in a 
Windows 3.*/95 Novell 4* environment.
     
I saw something vaguely like what I was looking for in an 
O'Reilly book (the green CGI book), but the folks upstairs were 
hoping I could locate a canned package to do the job.  (I could 
propose we get the $5,000 webserver for InMagic, and use our 
local catalog for this project, but I suspect there is a cheaper 
answer.)
     
Karen G. Schneider/schneider.karen at epamail.epa.gov 
Contractor, GCI/Director, US EPA Region 2 Library 
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/library/