The bullet is the little red dot
that is used to make lists more visually attractive.
It is only used for HTML export. You can either use the default image or use your own: click the Select button
and choose a JPEG, a GIF or a PNG file.
An image can be used to tile the background of HTML pages or contact sheets. If no background image is defined then the background color specified in the Export album dialog box will be used to paint the background.
For the Two frame page (film) HTML template you can also specify a different background (the default background looks like a strip of a 35mm film
).Click the Select button and choose a JPEG, a GIF or a PNG file.
In this group you can select the information that will appear in the generated HTML pages or contact sheets.
You can enable or disable an item by checking/unchecking the corresponding check box and select the information to display by clicking the corresponding Select button to build a Display String.
You can edit the following information:
- Page title. By default it's the album title (Display String =
%AN).
HTML pages will display it as a<H1>tag, contact sheet will use the Title font selected in the Export album dialog box. - Page sub-title. By default it's the album comment (Display String =
%AC).
HTML pages will display it as a<H2>tag, contact sheet will use the Title font, but half size, selected in the Export album dialog box. - Picture filename: each picture will be listed using this display string. By default it's the picture filename (Display String =
%FN). - Picture info: information about each picture will appear near the picture filename.
By default it's the picture comment (Display String =
%FC). - Picture tooltip: informational text that shows up when the mouse is placed over a thumnail in the generated HTML pages.
By default it's the first line of the picture comment (Display String =
%1C). - Page footer: text that will appear at the bottom of the HTML pages. Default text is "Built with MyAlbum".
For the Two frame page (film) HTML template you can limit the length of the film strip showing the thumbnails so the page will take less time to load. If there are more thumbnails than the specified limit, more than one pages will be generated linked together with Next and Previous buttons.
Scale factor (%) used in the Image list page HTML template.
Only available with the Unicode version of MyAlbum. Select in the drop-down list the character encoding to be used for the generated HTML files:
- Neutral (default for the non-Unicode version): no encoding is performed on the generated data so it will be Unicode for the Unicode version and ASCII for non-Unicode version.
- ASCII ISO-8859-1 (Latin1). Standardized multilingual single-byte coded (8bit). It covers most West European languages, such as French, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese, Italian, Albanian, Rhaeto-Romanic, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, Scottish, and English, incidentally also Afrikaans and Swahili, thus in effect also the entire American continent, Australia and much of Africa.
- Unicode (ISO 10646). Characters are coded using 16 bits (big-endian). Not many web browser are able to display Unicode web pages.
- UTF-8 (default for the Unicode version of MyAlbum). It's now the recommended encoding scheme for HTML and XML files. Characters are encoded using 1 to 6 bytes and is directly compatible with 7-bit ASCII.
- UTF-8 ASCII encoded. Characters above 0x7f are encodded using the HTML convention as
&#dd;sequences thus producing pure 7-bit files. - UTF-7. Characters are encoded using UTF-7.
For the Two frame page (film) HTML template you can instruct MyAlbum to include some client-side javascript code. The role of this code is to display, in the right frame, the picture comment along with the full-sized picture when you click a thumbnail where the page without the script will only display the picture.
See the online demo that is using this option.
Tip: You can use your own script by defining the following string value in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DigitalMATRIX\MyAlbum\Settings\HTMLScriptFile and setting its value to the
full path of the script file.
Check this option so MyAlbum will start the current web browser on the newly generated web page so you can instantly take a look at them.