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1. 1 2 1 3 1 4 Installation Simply execute Setup exe and follow the instructions System Requirements e Windows 95 98 2000 2003 NT4 ME XP XP64 Vista e 2 MB of free disk space e 32 MB of RAM How to Uninstall You can uninstall Easy Thumbnails by using the Control Panel s Add Remove Programs dialog box or the Uninstall Easy Thumbnails icon in the Start menu Quick Start The Easy Thumbnails interface is divided into two sections The left side lets you select the folder and image files used for creating the thumbnails A tab gives you access to the settings page which you can use to define the thumbnail s filename prefix suffix maximum height and width resize algorithm JPEG compression level brightness contrast sharpness and rotation angle The right side provides a preview of the original image currently selected as well as the resulting output image which you display by clicking on the corresponding tab The window title bar displays information about the current image shown When the Preview output page is displayed you ll see what filename it will have when saved based on your settings as well as its pixel dimensions and file size Click on the Make button to create thumbnails of the file s you ve highlighted in the Look in window Use the Make All button to create thumbnails of all the files listed in the selected folder By default PNG files are saved in their native format All other image types are2. Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Other Information 19 the Software or to the performance of your obligations under this Agreement Without limiting the generality of the foregoing you shall not take any action that would violate or cause Fookes Software to be in violation of any applicable law of the United States or any other jurisdiction including but not limited to the U S Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and all import and export laws regulations and restrictions of the United States or any foreign agency or authority 8 U S Government Rights This is a notice to U S Government End Users The Software and the documentation which accompanies the Software are Commercial Items as that term is defined at 48 C F R 2 101 consisting of Commercial Computer Software and Commercial Computer Software Documentation as such terms are used in 48 C F R 12 212 or 48 C F R 227 7202 as applicable Consistent with 48 C F R 12 212 or 48 C F R 227 7202 1 through 227 7202 4 as applicable the Commercial Computer Software and Commercial Computer Software Documentation are being licensed to U S Government end users a only as Commercial Items and b with only those rights as are granted to all other end users pursuant to the terms and conditions herein Fookes Software La Petite Fin 27 1637 Charmey Switzerland 9 WARRANTY DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AN AS IS
3. Easy Thumbnails User Manual Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Switzerland Easy Thumbnails Easy Batch Image Resizing for Windows by Eric Fookes Create accurate thumbnails and scaled down up copies of your pictures with this handy freeware utility Find and view images easily and process them individually in batches or a whole folder at a time Handle a wide range of popular image formats Use provided tools to rotate images and adjust contrast brightness sharpness and quality Preview thumbnails add suffixes or prefixes to name and try a range of image processing techniques Easy Thumbnails Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Switzerland All rights reserved No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means graphic electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording taping or information storage and retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and or registered trademarks of the respective owners The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it In no event shall the
4. Make Makes thumbnails of only the selected images Close Closes Easy Thumbnails program Preview Output Tab The Preview tab is on the right panel and is used to display a preview of the modified original picture based on the Image Conversion settings Changes in the Image Conversion settings are reflected in the preview window Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Reference Information 7 When an image is displayed in this window information about its dimensions and size are displayed in the program title bar 2 6 Resize Algorithm The resize algorithm or resample filter determines how pixels in a picture are affected when it is resized Some algorithms add a blurring effect while others maintain the hard edges between different areas of a picture The algorithm that generally gives the best results is Lanczos3 However depending on the nature of your picture you may get better results smaller file size or higher image quality by trying out one of the other algorithms You can see the result produced by the chosen algorithm by looking at the picture on the Thumbnail preview panel Easy Thumbnails offers a choice of eleven resize algorithms as well as an option for lossless rotation of JPEGs and an option to automatically choose the best resampling method for the type of picture being processed Smart This option uses the Mitchell algorithm when processing JPEG images and the Lanczos3 algorithm for
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6. News tab 6 NoteTab Light 15 NoteTab Pro 15 O Original image tab 6 Other Fookes Software Titles 15 P Preview in browser 2 Preview output tab 6 Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software ER Easy Thumbnails Help Q Quick Preview 2 Quick Start 2 DS Resample filter 7 Reset trackbar 2 s Savein 2 Select multiple images 2 Settings tab 4 Supported File Formats 8 System requirements 2 System variables 11 Ts Templates 12 Thumbnail size 2 Trademarks 20 Triangle algorithm 7 U uninstall 2 Useful Tips 2 W Web Page Templates 12 Web site 16 Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software
7. You have no rights hereunder to use any trademark or service mark belonging to Fookes Software 5 Bundling In no case may the Software be bundled with a hardware or software product without written permission from Fookes Software 6 Distribution License Provided that you are distributing the then current version of Easy Thumbnails you are hereby licensed to make as many copies of Easy Thumbnails as you wish give exact copies of the original Easy Thumbnails package to anyone and distribute Easy Thumbnails in its unmodified form via electronic means Internet BBS s software distribution libraries CD ROMs DVDs etc You may charge a small distribution fee for Easy Thumbnails but you must not represent in any way that you are selling the software itself You may not make Easy Thumbnails available on any site CD ROM DVD or with any package or with any other medium or service which makes available or contains viruses virus source code virus construction programs virus creation material software cracks spyware malware or other malicious code or material Permission to distribute Easy Thumbnails is not transferable assignable saleable or franchisable and any attempt to do so is void Each entity wishing to distribute Easy Thumbnails must independently satisfy the terms of the foregoing distribution license 7 Compliance You shall conduct your business in compliance with all laws and regulations in any way applicable to
8. other image types If the Mitchell algorithm is used to reduce the size of an image a value of 20 sharpening is applied after resizing if the Sharpness slider control is set to 0 None The image is simply stretched to the new size This is the fastest method but produces the least smoothing Triangle This algorithm produces sharp transition lines and is also relatively fast It produces reasonably good results with a little smoothing for both reduction and magnification Hermite The Hermite method creates noticeable smoothing but maintains a good degree of sharpness It is relatively fast Bell This algorithm is also relatively fast and produces smooth image bordering on soft B spline This method does not produce sharp transitions and may cause excessive blurring It has the advantage of dampening noise and JPEG artifacts B spline is one of the slower algorithms Lanczos3 This is the slowest method but it usually produces the sharpest images comparable to fractal resizing Under certain conditions it may introduce some ringing patterns and emphasize JPEG artifacts Mitchell Resizing with this algorithm produces no sharp transitions and tends to be a good compromise between the ringing effect of Lanczos and blurring of other methods It is often used with photos in combination with the sharpness option to reduce smoothing The Mitchell algorithm produces good results when enlarging pictures It is also one of the slower alg
9. File Format tif tiff fax Truevision Targa tga targa vda vst Windows Enhanced Meta File emf Windows Icon File ico Windows Meta File wmf Windows or OS 2 Bitmap bmp dib rle Wireless Bitmap images womp Zsoft PC Paintbrush pcx Command Line Switches The command line switches or parameters let you create thumbnails and Web pages without using the program s interface This is particularly useful if you want to use Easy Thumbnails to create thumbnails from other applications Furthermore you can use these switches to create simple Web pages of your images the layout and appearance can be controlled through template files You can specify as many parameters as the command line can take Each parameter must be separated by a space Use double quotes around values that contain blank characters The first parameter should be used to specify which file s to process The order of the other parameters is not important You can either use a forward slash or a hyphen to mark the start of a switch Filenames can contain tokens and system variables EzThumbs exe Files Switches The following examples show all the available switches EzThumbs exe SMyPics jpg png D C temp P tn_ W 200 H 200 Z ShrinkToFit F Mitchell Q 70 B 10 C 5 S 20 R 90 DPI 300 EXIF No HTML Pictures html T Template html L EzThumbs exe c Web tn_ jpg HTML Index html T MyTemplate htm L OnlyHt
10. on the chosen setting there can be big differences in the resize quality and processing speed See the Resize Algorithm topic for more information on the different settings available When batch processing you may want to change the name of converted images so that they don t overwrite your originals Adding a prefix or suffix to the name can also be useful to easily identify and group certain kinds of pictures like thumbnails for example Use the Prefix Suffix field to add text to the image name The New Name field determines how this text is added to the image name When you select Auto Detect Easy Thumbnails will automatically determine how to build the new name if it Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Reference Information 5 starts or ends with an underscore _ a hyphen or a dot the text will be added to the image name as a suffix or prefix respectively otherwise the Rename option is assumed Use the Add nothing setting to keep the original image name unchanged When the Rename option is used Easy Thumbnails creates numbered image names based on the text in the New Name field The index number is added at the end of the name unless you use one of the number tokens to specify an alternative position Easy Thumbnails supports two types of tokens that you can use to add numbering to new filenames You can use an asterisk in the text to indicate where numbers must be inserted Padding with leading zeros
11. publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document Printed January 2008 in Charmey Switzerland Special thanks to Publisher EO All the people who contributed to this document especially David Nourse who improved the text considerably Managing A Last not least we want to thank EC Software who wrote this great Eric Fookes help tool called HELP amp MANUAL which printed this document Easy Thumbnails Help Table of Contents Part db OND ek Part Il COGAN OA P WN ek CH 11 Part Ill 1 Easy Imager ccccceeeeeceseeeeeeeesneeeeenseeeeeeenseeeeeenees Other Fookes Software Titles saso 2 Part IV a fF O N Foreword General Information INTEOCUICTION artez araia ENEE Ipstallationt eiten a a etak EOIOK Start adari teatralitatea Useful TipS eztarria eai aia earra Reference Information Files Tab been DESEN SOttinS CT E AISE EZI BAA Original Image Teba Preview Output Tebas a Resize Algorithm seen Supported File Formats seen Command Line Switches arree Useful Tokens and System Variables Web Page Templates susen allega rek Ee Ne Other Products Other Information Contacting Fookes Software ro Discussion Group sur a End User License Agreement zuzen Lia SIE Acknowledgements rras eee Index Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software General Informa
12. saved as JPEG files If you want PNG files saved in JPEG format right click with your mouse on the Thumbnail preview image and check the Save PNG as JPEG option in the shortcut menu For more information see also the Useful Tips topic Useful Tips Basic Information e Grayed controls indicate fields or buttons that are not available for use in the current context e Move your mouse cursor over a control to display information about it in the status bar at the bottom of the window Most of the controls have a shortcut menu that you can open by clicking on them with the right button of your mouse The window title bar is used to display details name dimensions and file size about the picture currently displayed in the right panel area Less Obvious e You can select multiple images in the file list window by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on each file with the left mouse button Use the Make button to create thumbnails of only the files you selected The Make All button does not take into account selected files it processes all the Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software General Information 3 2 1 files listed in the window To speed up image selection you can hold down the Alt key to stop each image you select from being displayed in the Preview panel This can be useful if you want to select several large images for processing Leave the Save in field blank if you want to save the thumbna
13. settings is used Defines how the image should be resized The following values are available and correspond to the settings available in the Resize drop down list BestFit EnlargeToFit NoResize ShrinkToFit StretchToFit Defines the resampling method to use when resizing images The following values are available and correspond to the settings available in the Algorithm drop down list Smart Bell Bicubic Bilinear BSpline FastLinear Hermite Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software 10 Easy Thumbnails Help Q Jpeg Quality B Brightness C Contrast S Sharpness R RotationAngle DPl Value EXIF Yes No HTML OutputName T TemplateName Lanczos3 Linear Lossless Mitchell Nearest None Triangle This switch accepts a value between 1 and 100 It defines the quality and degree of compression used for creating Jpeg thumbnail images Higher values produce better quality images but with bigger file sizes A value of 75 generally produces good results If this switch is not used the JPG quality value specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used Use this switch to change the brightness of the generated images Values can range from 100 to 100 Negative values darken the image and positive values lighten it A value of 0 zero leaves the brightness unchanged If this switch is not used the Brightness value specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used Use this switch to cha
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15. PEG Quality field A higher value produces a larger image file take longer to download on the Internet with less quality loss A lower value produces a smaller file at the cost of image quality Use the other slider controls to change the brightness contrast sharpness and rotation of your images A value of 0 leaves the image unmodified for the corresponding property Note that you can double click on the label of these slider controls to reset the default value Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Easy Thumbnails Help 2 3 2 4 2 5 News Tab Use the News feature to check the Internet for news and software updates from Fookes Software News items are organized by category A single mouse click on a news item will display the corresponding Web page in your browser or starts a file download Icons are displayed next to news items and have the following meaning The news item has either been added today or after you last displayed news The news item has already been displayed before The news item link points to an exe Setup file The news item link points to a zip file The news item is an e mail address link EED O e The News feature is useful to find out if a new Easy Thumbnails update is available It also displays news about our other major releases and occasionally special offers that we make available to our users Information is transmitted one way only from our server to your computer The news
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17. d to the converted JPEG image otherwise it is not If you want to create a Web page of the generated thumbnail images specify a filename for the switch value The file is always created in the same folder as the thumbnail images so you should not include a pathname The html extension is assumed if the specified filename does not have an extension The filename can contain tokens and system variables The Web page layout and appearance can be customized through the use of template files See the T switch below to define which template file to use Use the L switch to convert image names to lowercase in the Web page Add the OnlyHtm switch if you don t want to produce new images but just want a Web page Use this switch to use a different template file for the layout of your images Web page If this switch is not specified Easy Thumbnails will use the default template file Template html When used together with the Files parameter a Web page with the pictures is saved as index html if you omit the HTML Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Reference Information 11 2 9 switch The template filename can contain tokens and system variables See the topic about Web Page Templates for more information LIST ListName You can instruct Easy Thumbnails to process images based on a file containing a list of filenames The list filename can contain tokens and system variables For more details see the topic about Fil
18. e Easy Thumbnails as a process for another application and or bundle Easy Thumbnails with another product Please contact Fookes Software for pricing details if you need to purchase a license Useful Tokens and System Variables The Easy Thumbnails command line supports filename tokens that either represent fully qualified folder names or system variables A token must be delimited with either a percent character ora dollar sign If you are going to use tokens in a batch file script you must use the character as a delimiter instead of The following tokens are defined in Easy Thumbnails and recognized under all versions of Windows AppDat returns the Application Data folder of the logged on user ExeDir returns the folder of the Easy Thumbnails program file ExeDrv returns the drive of the Easy Thumbnails program file MyData returns the folder used by Easy Thumbnails to store program settings Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software 12 Easy Thumbnails Help 2 10 MyDocs returns the Windows My Documents folder MyPics returns the Windows My Pictures folder The following lists a small selection of predefined system variables typically available under Windows 2000 and XP with examples of possible default values assuming Administrator is the name of the logged on user AllUsersProfile C Documents and Settings All Users AppData C Documents and Settings Administ
19. e Lists L Use this switch to convert image names to lowercase in the Web page created through the HTML switch M When creating thumbnails through the command line Easy Thumbnails does not show how many thumbnails it created You can override this behavior with the M switch Easy Thumbnails will then display a message window with the number of thumbnails it created Log When you use this switch status and error messages are stored in a log file instead of being displayed on the screen You can specify a filename for the log results by using an equal sign after LOG followed by the filename see the examples above The filename can contain tokens and system variables If you don t specify a log file results will be stored in a file called Ez Thumbs log in the program s folder OnlyHtml Use this switch together with the HTML switch to create a Web page of the specified images without producing new images or thumbnails The Files switch is required and thumbnail related switches are ignored UD IE W H Z F Q B C S R Important note Thanks to these command line switches Easy Thumbnails makes an ideal companion for services and applications that need to process images Please note that you must purchase a license if you want to run Easy Thumbnails from a company institution school agency organization network server offer Easy Thumbnails to third parties on an application service provider web service or time sharing basis us
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21. e them at their best without making large downloads Easy Imager also provides tools to convert images to other file formats print text on pictures capture screen shots import pictures from TWAIN devices and the Clipboard change your Desktop Wallpaper search for images and associate text descriptions with pictures You can configure the program extensively to suit the way you work you can customize the toolbar to include your most used tools assign your own keyboard shortcuts to menu items and set numerous preferences for the handy Live Spelling feature For more information and to download a free evaluation version please visit the following Web page hitp www fookes com ezimager See this page to access sample photo albums created with Easy Imager hitp www fookes com ezimager albums php Other Fookes Software Titles Easy Imager Easy Imager covers all the features available in Easy Thumbnails and adds a whole lot more The Explorer type window shows pictures as thumbnails and new settings let you print text on your photos like a copyright notice or date convert images to other formats build attractive digital albums track down images quickly with powerful search tools capture them from the screen acquire them from TWAIN devices like scanners and digital cameras paste them from the clipboard and more http www fookes com ezimager NoteTab Light Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software 16 Easy Thumbn
22. er The types of images displayed in the file list are determined by the setting in the Files of type field above the tab You can select multiple images in the file list window by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on each file with the left mouse button To speed up image selection you can hold down the Alt key to stop each image you select from being displayed in the image display panel To select a range of adjacent images click on the first image then hold down the Shift key and press on the last picture you want selected If you chose not to create the Windows Explorer Make Thumbnail shortcut during installation you can easily add it by right clicking with your mouse in the Easy Thumbnails file list window and then clicking on the Add Thumbnail Shortcut command in the popup menu Use the Save in field to control in which folder your new pictures should be saved If you don t specify a target folder then all the converted images will be saved in your current folder If you specify a relative folder i e that doesn t include the drive and directory path images are saved in the folder relative to the current folder Settings Tab The Settings tab provides settings to change the image size the image name JPEG compression quality brightness contrast sharpness and rotation You can see the result produced by your settings by activating the Preview output tab on the right panel Use the Max Width and Max Height fields to def
23. fault Web browser The layout is defined in the Template html template file You can make thumbnails from Windows Explorer by right clicking with your mouse on a selected image file and then choosing the Make Thumbnail command from the shortcut menu The thumbnail is made according to the settings you had when you last closed Easy Thumbnails This command only appears for supported file types and is ideal for quickly converting one or two images If you chose not to create this shortcut during installation you can easily add it by right clicking with your mouse in the Easy Thumbnails file list window and then clicking on the Add Thumbnail Shortcut command in the popup menu If you are using Easy Thumbnails to assist you in creating Web based photo albums take a look at our Easy Imager software If you process a Jpeg file that contains EXIF data the resized image will contain a copy of the data as long as it exceeds 300 pixels in height or width The EXIF data is automatically discarded when you produce smaller pictures so that file size can be reduced further Reference Information Files Tab The Files tab provides an Explorer like interface that you can use to browse through your drive folders and select images you want to process The top window displays the drives and folders and the lower Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Easy Thumbnails Help 2 2 window shows the files contained in the selected fold
24. feature does not send any details about your system to us Easy Thumbnails determines locally what relevant news to display to you Usually program updates are downloaded and installed directly from within Easy Thumbnails updating your software this way couldn t be easier However be aware that some download managers may take over this download process and interfere with normal operations When this happens you may see a prompt from Easy Thumbnails asking you to tell it when the download has been completed With other download managers the download may fail altogether In this case turn off your download manager and try again You can configure Easy Thumbnails to automatically check for news at regular intervals by checking the Check for news every 15 days option on the News tab The News tab will automatically become active if new news items have been added since the last viewing If the Update button is available you can use it to update news manually by clicking on it This button is only displayed when the Check for news every 15 days option is unchecked Original Image Tab The Original Image tab is on the right panel and is used to display the active picture in its original state When an image is displayed in the window information about its dimensions and file size are displayed in the program title bar In the bottom part of the tab you will find three buttons Make All Makes thumbnails of all the files in the selected folder
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26. hen Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Reference Information 13 2 11 duplicated for each image that is added to the Web page Furthermore this line must contain the field lmageUrl otherwise the template will fail to work If you need to create digital photo albums or more sophisticated Web pages based on your images please consider trying out our Easy Imager software Easy Imager lets you create superb Web albums in just a few mouse clicks Visit out Web site at www fookes com to see sample photo albums created with Easy Imager Available Field Codes lmageUrl Represents the image filename in URL format If the L parameter switch is used characters are changed to lowercase Use this field for creating links to the image lmageName Represents the image filename This field should only be used on the same line as the lmageUrl field lmageSize Represents the image file size This field should only be used on the same line as the lmageUr field lmageHeight Represents the image height This field should only be used on the same line as the lmageUr field lmageWidth Represents the image width This field should only be used on the same line as the lmageUrl field FolderName Represents the name of the folder that contains the processed images FolderPath Represents the pathname of the folder that contains the processed images SearchSpecs _ Represents the search pattern used to
27. hrough the Windows Run dialog box EzThumbs exe List c My Documents Images 1lst Other Products Easy Imager Easy Imager is a powerful application that makes it easy to display manage and batch process images in all popular formats and produce photo albums to suit every browser Other photo album programs limit you to setting display sizes that may not suit other users Web browser settings Easy Imager s integrated Zoomify technology does away with squinting at tiny images or scrolling around oversized pictures by displaying high resolution images automatically scaled to the user s browser window Easy Imager s elegant interface makes it a snap to find your images and select them for processing individually in batches or in whole folders using a thumbnail based file selector You can use slider controls to rotate images and adjust their contrast brightness color sharpness and quality and check out the results with a convenient built in viewer If you re a digital photography enthusiast you ll appreciate features like one click picture rotation image sharpening in batches date stamping images and reducing picture sizes for the Web or email You can also create professional looking digital photo albums complete with thumbnail indexes in minutes using a wide variety of options to control their appearance If you create a Zoomify album for the Web you ll no longer need to scale down your photos your site visitors will be able to se
28. ill find updates and other great software at our Web site hitp www fookes com Key Features Can scale images up or down with high quality results Choice of eleven resampling filters including Bicubic and Lanczos3 Can sharpen soft images particularly those from digital cameras Shows a real time preview of the target image and its file size Supports the new JPEG 2000 image format Preserves EXIF data in JPEG images larger than 300x300 pixels Automatically removes EXIF data from small thumbnails Supports lossless rotation of JPEG images Offers an extensive set of command line switches Can process all images contained in subfolders through the command line Can create Web pages of image sets based on customizable templates If this collection of features isn t enough to suit your needs please take a look at Easy Imager Like Easy Thumbnails Easy Imager organizes tools and preview screens on a tabbed interface but adds significantly more features The Explorer type window in Easy Imager shows pictures as thumbnails and new settings let you print text on your photos like a copyright notice or date convert images to other formats build attractive digital aloums track down images quickly with powerful search tools capture them from the screen acquire them from TWAIN devices like scanners and digital cameras paste them from the clipboard and more Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Easy Thumbnails Help
29. ils in the same folder as your images Easy Thumbnails automatically creates a folder if it does not already exist You can specify relative path names If your original image is a Jpeg file you can produce a lossless no degradation of image quality 90 180 rotation by choosing the Lossless setting in the Algorithm field Note that there might be a slight reduction in size of the resulting image if its dimensions do not match the DCT Discrete Cosine Transform block unit Double click on a trackbar s label to reset its value You can use the shortcut menu from the Original image preview area to shrink the picture so that it fits in the display area Use the Copy Image Tag command from the shortcut menu of the Original Preview image to copy the HTML tag of the current picture to the Clipboard Use the Make Web page command available when you right click with your mouse in the picture files listing to create a Web page based on your current selection of images The layout is defined in the Template html template file which you can customize By default the Web page file is saved as pictures html and each new copy adds an index number after the name e g pictures 1 html pictures 2 html etc You can set a different name through the program s command line Use the Show in browser command available when you right click with your mouse in the picture files listing to display the current selection of images in your de
30. ine the maximum width and height of the images produced when a resizing option is selected The value represents pixel units You can insert zero or a blank value in either Max Width or Max Height so that the resizing factor is only determined based on one of the image dimensions Note that the size values are ignored if you select No resize in the Resize field or Lossless JPEG in the Algorithm field Easy Thumbnails preserves EXIF data in JPEG images larger than 300x300 pixels With smaller sizes Easy Thumbnails assumes you are producing thumbnails and so automatically removes EXIF data to reduce their file size The Resize field defines whether images are resized and how The following values are available e No resize the image is not resized Best fit the image is resized so that it fits in the rectangle defined by Max Width and Max Height aspect ratio is preserved e Shrink to fit the image is only resized if it is larger than the rectangle defined by Max Width and Max Height aspect ratio is preserved Enlarge to fit the image is only resized if it is smaller than the rectangle defined by Max Width and Max Height aspect ratio is preserved e Stretch to fit the image is resized so that it fills the rectangle defined by Max Width and Max Height image aspect ratio may be altered The setting chosen in the Resampling filter field determines how pixels in a picture are affected when it is resized Depending
31. is automatically determined based on the number of images you process Example New Name Auto detect Prefix Suffix alex_first_birthday_ Filenames produced assuming 100 JPEG files are processed alex_first_birthday_001 jpg alex_first_birthday_002 jpg alex_first_birthday_003 jpg alex_first_birthday_100 jpg In some cases you may want to control exactly how many leading zeros are added to the index number You can do so by using question mark characters instead of the asterisk The number of question marks indicates the minimum width to use for the index number Based on the above example the following pattern alex_first_birthday_ would generate this alex_first_birthday_01 jpg alex_first_birthday_02 jpg alex_first_birthday_03 jpg alex_first_birthday_100 jpg Two special tokens that can be used with the FolderName and FileName fields give you control over the character case of your image names Prefix the field name with an underscore character _ to produce a name in lowercase or use an exclamation mark To produce an uppercase name Example Image name Sample04 UPG New Name Auto detect Prefix Suffix _ FileName Result sample04 jpg These fields can be combined with prefix or suffix text Example Image name Sample04 UPG New Name Auto detect Prefix Suffix tn_ FileName Result tn_SAMPLE04 JPG When you produce JPEG images you can control the quality of the new image by changing the value of the J
32. m groups php End User License Agreement This End User License Agreement this Agreement governs the terms and conditions of the Licensee s access and use of Easy Thumbnails software Easy Thumbnails and is made between the Licensee you and Fookes Software La Petite Fin 27 1637 Charmey Switzerland Fookes Software However if you are using Easy Thumbnails as or on behalf of an entity such as a corporation partnership limited liability company or other entity the term you used below refers to the entity which will be bound by this Agreement You represent and warrant that you have power and authority to enter into this Agreement on behalf of the entity This Agreement does not address any third party or free or open source software separately licensed to you By clicking the I accept the Agreement option during installation and or using Easy Thumbnails you confirm your acceptance of and agree to be bound by this Agreement If you do not agree to this Agreement or if you do not understand it do not install or use Easy Thumbnails In case you have another written agreement directly with Fookes Software such written agreement prevails in the event of any conflict with the terms and conditions of this Agreement 1 Definitions Software means the version of Easy Thumbnails in executable form and documentation GUI means the graphical rather than purely textual user interface that a software program provides to enabl
33. match images to process AppName Represents the program name i e Easy Thumbnails AppVersion Represents the version number of Easy Thumbnails AppUrl Represents the link to the Easy Thumbnails homepage on the Web CurrentDate Represents the current date as specified by your computer clock File Lists You can instruct Easy Thumbnails to process images based on a file containing a list of filenames which you specify through a command line switch The file can contain a simple list of fully qualified image names with one name per line like the following example WINDOWS Bubbles bmp WINDOWS Circles bmp WINDOWS Tiles bmp WINDOWS Waves bmp C C C Cc You can also specify names with wild cards to process all matching files c WINDOWS bmp c My Pictures jpg c My Pictures png Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software 14 Easy Thumbnails Help If you want to process all matching files including those in subdirectories just add a character in front of the name to My Pictures jpg If you want to add comments in the file just start each comment line with a semi colon You can also insert blank lines in your list to group elements if you wish Process all bitmap images c WINDOWS bmp Process all jpeg images c My Pictures jpg To simplify the creation of long lists of filenames you can define a main folder name on the line preceding the files it co
34. ml Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Reference Information 9 EzThumbs exe Log List SMyDocs Images 1lst Examples using the Log switch EzThumbs exe test jpg Log EzThumbs exe c temp jpg Log Output EzThumbs exe jpg Log c My Documents Thumbnails dat Definitions Files D DestFolder P ThumbPrefix W MaxImage Width H MaxlmageHeight Z ResizeMode F ResizeFilter Defines the image file s to process If used this parameter should be the first one You can use DOS wildcards to specify multiple files Use a semicolon to separate multiple criteria If no pathname is specified Easy Thumbnails will search for the images in the current folder Relative pathnames may be used Insert a plus character in front of the filename s path to process all matching files contained in subfolders e g EzThumbs exe C My Pictures jpg Use double quotes around filenames that contain blank characters Filenames can contain tokens and system variables Note that Easy Thumbnails will automatically close after processing instructions when you use this command line parameter Defines the output folder for saving the thumbnail files Relative pathnames may be used and are expanded based on the location specified by the Files parameter Insert a plus character in front of the folder name to create subfolders relative to each processed source file e g EzThumbs exe C My Pic
35. nd Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation registered in the U S and other countries All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners Acknowledgements Easy Imager is developed in Delphi a Borland product It uses the ImageEn library for image rendering and processing from HiComponents This well designed Delphi library provides image file UO for popular file formats printing scanning and image processing features This Help file was authored in Help amp Manual an EC Software product The Setup program is made with the Inno Setup package developed by Jordan Russell Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Index 21 Index A Acknowledgements 20 Aid4Mail 15 Algorithm 7 B Bell algorithm 7 B spline algorithm 7 He Command Line Switches 8 Contacting Fookes Software 16 Copy image tag HTML 2 D discussion group 17 DPI 8 E Ze Easy Imager 15 Easy Thumbnails discussion group 17 End User License Agreement 17 EULA 17 EXIF 8 EXIF data 2 a 2 Fast linear algorithm 7 Faster preview 2 Feedback 16 File lists 13 Filestab 3 Folder tokens 11 H Hermite algorithm 7 How to get help 17 Installation 2 Introduction 1 aies Lanczos3 algorithm 7 License Information 17 Linear algorithm 7 Lossless JPEGs 7 Mailbag Assistant 15 Make All button 2 Make button 2 Make Thumbnail shortcut 2 Make Web page 2 Mitchell algorithm 7 N
36. nge the contrast of the generated images Values can range from 100 to 100 Negative values reduce contrast and positive values increase it A value of 0 zero leaves the contrast unchanged If this switch is not used the Contrast value specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used Use this switch to change the sharpness of the generated images Values can range from 100 to 100 Negative values soften the image and positive values sharpen it A value of 0 zero leaves the sharpness unchanged If this switch is not used the Sharpness value specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used Use this switch to change the angle of the generated images Values represent degrees and can range from 180 to 180 Negative values rotate the image anti clockwise and positive values clockwise A value of 0 zero leaves the angle unchanged If this switch is not used the Rotate value specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used Use this switch to define the DPI dots per inch setting for converted images If this switch is not used the DPI value from the source image is copied to the converted image Use this switch to determine whether Easy Thumbnails should copy EXIF data from the source image to the converted JPEG image The value can be either YES or NO If this switch is not used the transfer of EXIF data is determined by the size of the converted image If the new size is larger than 300x300 pixels then EXIF data is copie
37. ntains The folder name must be preceded with an character Example c WINDOWS Bubbles bmp Circles bmp Tiles bmp Waves bmp c My Pictures jpg png If you work with complex folder structures you can break down the path name even further by preceding the folder name with a sign The folder name is then merged with the main folder name preceding it Example c My Pictures Digital Camera 2002_07_15 111 1171_IMG JUPG 111 1174_IMG JUPG 111 1179_IMG JPG 2002_07_17 112 1213_IMG JUPG 112 1216_IMG JUPG The above list is equivalent to the following My Pictures Digital Camera 2002_07_15 111 1171_IMG JPG My Pictures Digital Camera 2002_07_15 111 1174_IMG JPG My Pictures Digital Camera 2002_07_15 111 1179_IMG JPG My Pictures Digital Camera 2002_07_17 112 1213_IMG JPG My Pictures Digital Camera 2002_07_17 112 1216_IMG JPG GO OO OO You can even specify other file lists by preceding their name with a colon Note that you cannot use wild cards to specify multiple file lists Example c WINDOWS Patterns 1lst c My Pictures Portraits Lat Landscapes lst Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Reference Information 15 3 2 Use the List switch to specify a file list through the command line If the filename contains blank characters make sure you surround them with double quotes If your file list is called images Jet you would type the following command line for example t
38. orithms Nearest This algorithm is recommended for small icons or lines outlines It works best with illustrations containing non anti aliased edges Linear Fast Linear This is a reasonably fast method that does not emphasize jagged edges but it does tend to blur the image slightly Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Easy Thumbnails Help 2 7 2 8 Bilinear This interpolation method produces relatively smooth edges with few jaggies This algorithm is often recommended for shrinking images Bicubic Bicubic interpolation is more sophisticated than Bilinear It produces very smooth edges with hardly any jaggies even better than Bilinear This algorithm is often used for enlarging images Lossless Technically speaking this is not a resampling filter This option is available to produce lossless rotations 90 steps of JPEG images The quality of the image is unaltered when a lossless rotation is applied There might be a slight reduction in size of the resulting image if its dimensions do not match the DCT Discrete Cosine Transform block unit If this option is used on non JPEG images it operates like the Smart setting Supported File Formats The following file formats are currently supported by Easy Thumbnails JPEG jpg jpeg jpe jps JPEG 2000 jpc j2k jp2 CompuServe Graphics Interchange gif Portable Bitmap pbm pgm ppm Portable Network Graphics png Tagged Image
39. rator Application Data CommonProgramFiles C Program Files Common Files ProgramFiles C Program Files SystemDrive SystemRoot C WINDOWS Temp C DOCUME 1 ADMINI 1 LOCALS 1 Temp UserName Administrator UserProfile C Documents and Settings Administrator WinDir C WINDOWS Web Page Templates Easy Thumbnails can create Web pages of your images It can do so either through its command line switches or through the Show in browser command in the shortcut menu of the file list window The image layout and page appearance can be controlled through template files The default layout is defined in the Template html file that is distributed with Easy Thumbnails It also serves as a good example of how the template file is structured You can customize the file to suit your needs or create new templates based on it If you open the Template html file in a text editor or a code based HTML editor like NoteTab you will notice that it is just a basic HTML file with special field codes inserted in different parts of the text When Easy Thumbnails processes the template to produce the images Web page it replaces the field codes with their corresponding values Field codes are represented by keywords placed between two characters Most of these field codes can be placed anywhere in the template except for the codes used to define the images image field codes should only be used on a single line This line is t
40. tion 1 1 1 General Information Introduction Easy Thumbnails is a handy freeware utility for creating accurate thumbnail images and scaled down up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats An elegant interface makes it a snap to find your images and select them for processing individually in batches or in whole folders using a simple file selector and built in image viewer You can use slider controls to rotate images and adjust their contrast brightness sharpness and quality and check out the results with a convenient built in viewer Thumbnails can be created in any existing folder or a new folder and you can identify them clearly by adding a prefix or suffix to their titles If you re an image processing enthusiast you ll enjoy having a choice of eleven resampling algorithms for the best possible results You can convert small batches of images inside Windows Explorer from the File menu or with a right click of the mouse display thumbnails in your browser and even take advantage of command line switches to generate thumbnails seamlessly from other programs You can also save your thumbnails to a Web page using an HTML template that you can easily customize to create your own layouts Easy Thumbnails is a genuine freeware product without the annoyance of advertising intrusive spyware components or nag screens It comes from Fookes Software the developers of the award winning NoteTab text editors You w
41. tures jpg D New If this switch is not used the Save in folder specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used You can use tokens and system variables in the output folder name Defines the prefix to use for the generated thumbnail files If you prefer to have the thumbnail prefix text added as the filename suffix just use an underscore character at the beginning e g _tn Use a plus character instead if you don t want an underscore or plus character included in the filename s suffix e g tn If you don t want a prefix suffix added to the filename just leave the switch value empty If this switch is not used the Prefix specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used Use this switch to define the maximum image width in pixels used to resize the images A value of 0 zero either indicates no resizing or bases the new size on the H switch value If you don t specify the H switch this value will also be used for the maximum image height If neither the W and H switches are used the Max width value specified in the Easy Thumbnails settings is used Use this switch to define the maximum image height in pixels used to resize the images A value of 0 zero either indicates no resizing or bases the new size on the W switch value If you don t specify the W switch this value will also be used for the maximum image width If neither the AN and H switches are used the Max height value specified in the Easy Thumbnails
42. wever you may find help by visiting our free user discussion group If you have found a bug in our software or wish to send us your comments about Easy Thumbnails please visit our Support page to send us your message The following usage requires that you purchase a license from Fookes Software e Bundling Easy Thumbnails with a software or hardware product e Running Easy Thumbnails as a process for another application e Running Easy Thumbnails from a company institution school agency organization network server e Offering Easy Thumbnails to third parties on an application service provider web service or time sharing basis For details on license pricing and conditions please visit our Support page to contact us Our snail mail address is Fookes Software La Petite Fin 27 1637 Charmey Switzerland Web site http Awww fookes com Copyright 2001 2008 Fookes Software Other Information 17 4 2 4 3 Discussion Group The Easy Thumbnails discussion group is a great place to meet other users friendly people from all walks of life and ranging from complete beginners to experts If you are a newbie ask some of the old timers some basic questions to help get you started Also use this list to exchange ideas share neat tips and tricks ask questions suggest new features etc You will find more information about the Easy Thumbnails discussion group on the following Web page http www fookes co
43. y an effective provision that is as close as possible in economic terms to the provision wanted by the parties The same procedure applies in the case of an omission 13 General You shall not assign delegate or sublicense any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement by operation of law or otherwise without prior written consent of Fookes Software and any attempt without such consent shall be void Subject to the preceding sentence this Agreement binds and benefits the permitted successors and assigns of the parties Fookes Software may change the terms conditions and pricing relating to the future licensing of its Software and other intellectual property rights including this Agreement from time to time No waiver will be implied from conduct or failure to enforce rights nor effective unless in a writing signed on behalf of the party against whom the waiver is asserted There are no third party beneficiaries to this Agreement Fookes Software is not bound by additional and or conflicting provisions in any purchase order or other correspondence unless expressly agreed in writing This Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of agreement between the parties as to its subject matter and supersedes all proposals or prior agreements verbal or written advertising representations or communications concerning the Software Last updated 30 January 2008 Trademarks Easy Thumbnails is a trademark of Fookes Software Switzerla
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