Introduction

album can contains other albums (sub albums): the album can have a tree structure�;

generation of a thumbnail and of scaled images for each picture�;

generated album appearance is fully customizable by using HTML templates and configuration parameters: colors, number and size of thumbnails per page, number and size of scaled pictures (in pixels or percentage of the original image for the size), fields to display, etc. Those parameters can be set globally (system wide or per user), per album or sub album or per picture (for example, you can change the colors of one sub album or one just one picture page in an album by editing its description file)�;

several description fields (date, location, etc...) can be associated with the pictures (in text or HTML format). You can easily add or customize these fields�;

description fields can be set or modified via a command line interface or a GTK+/GNOME-based GUI�;

Album can be generated from pictures managed by Zoph.

speed up album browsing by performing a clean up of HTML code to reduce its size and by pre-loading thumbnails in browser cache using JavaScript code�;

Exif information and Digital camera support�:

internationalization (generation of album in different languages) using gettext. Current languages supported are English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Esperanto, Finish and Italian�;

customizable charset encoding for HTML generation, including UTF-8 (Unicode) support by default. Generation of the Apache .htaccess file for correct encoding charset in HTTP headers�;

use of XML files to save user description of pictures and albums/subalbums and Exif data from image file�;

handle correctly file and directory names with spaces or other odd characters (excepted '/'), and create valid escaped URLs�;

generate valid HTML 4 code.