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Viewing the Results: Once jigl is done doing its thing, you can exit out of the Terminal. After that, open a Nautilus window and then open up the folder where you are keeping the images you just jigl-ized. Inside that folder, you will find the new subfolders mentioned in the previous section (thumbs, slides, web). Double-click the one called web, and then look for the file called index.html inside.  Double-clicking index.html will cause it to open up in your Mozilla web browser. The output should look more or less like the image near the top of the page, albeit with your images, not mine.

To see a slide of one of the thumbnail images, just click the image you want a closer look at. It will then open up in its own page, as you can see in the following image:


From any slide page, you have a number of navigational options open to you. You can simply return to the index/gallery page by clicking the Index link, move backwards and forwards amongst the various slides by using the Prev and Next links, and if you're into photography, as the creator of this script seems to have been, you will be especially pleased when you click the Info link. As you can see in the following image, the Info page for each image contains all the techinical details of that image: shutter speed, aperature, metering type, resolution, focal length (useful when using a zoom), focus distance, and even the make and model of the camera. Very cool.



Options: There are a number of options available to you with jigl. If you want have a look at all of them, just open a Terminal window, type in jigl.pl --help (notice that there are two hyphens before the word help), and then hit ENTER. You can also find a lot of information at http://xome.net/projects/jigl/usage.html.  For my part, I am just going to mention one of these, Watermarks, which should also give you a pretty good idea of how to use the others.

Adding watermarks (or logos) to images is somehow, in my mind anyway, just the coolest thing that jigl does. Basically this is done by adding the flag -ws (watermark slides) in conjunction with -wf (watermark file). Why not give it a try right now by putting a nice red apple in the corner of each of your gallery slides. Oh, and don't worry, your original images will not be touched. Here is what you have to do:

  • As this is just experiment, let's use a folder with only a few images – 10 would be about right.
  • Open a terminal and cd over to that folder. Let's say the folder is called weddingpics, which is located in your photos folder. In this case, you would type: cd photos/weddingpics/ (and then tap ENTER).
  • OK, now you will use the jigl.pl command followed by the two flags, -ws (to tell jigl to place watermarks on the slides, and -wf, followed by the location of the watermark image (to tell jigl what image you want to use as a watermark). In this case, we are going to use the image called apple-red.png which is located in /usr/share/pixmaps. You thus type in jigl.pl -ws -wf /usr/share/pixmaps/apple-red.png, followed by a press on the ENTER key.
You can see an example of the results of this handy feature in the bottom right corner of the image below:


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