========= gallerize

Create a static HTML/CSS image gallery from a bunch of images.

:Copyright: 2007-2021 Jochen Kupperschmidt :License: MIT, see LICENSE for details.

Features

• Integrates ImageMagick_ to resize images and create thumbnails.
• Generates clean, slim, semantically appropriate HTML5 and uses CSS 3 for styling. As a result, the output can easily be themed.
• Provides HTML access keys for keyboard navigation.
• Optimizes images to reduce size and remove metadata.

Requirements

• Python_ 3.7+
• Jinja_
• ImageMagick_ (tested with 6.6.9-7)
• jpegoptim_ (tested with 1.4.6)

Installation

It is recommended to create a virtual environment and run gallerize inside it.

To install ImageMagick_, jpegoptim_, and virtualenv_ on Debian/Ubuntu:

.. code:: sh

$ aptitude install imagemagick jpegoptim python-virtualenv

This should also give you a copy of pip_.

Create a virtual environment called venv in the application path:

.. code:: sh

$ virtualenv venv

Activate it (note the space after the first dot!):

.. code:: sh

$ . venv/bin/activate

Install the dependencies of this application:

.. code:: sh

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Install gallerize itself:

.. code:: sh

$ pip install -e .

Tests

Install test dependencies:

.. code:: sh

$ pip install -r requirements-test.txt

Run tests:

.. code:: sh

$ pytest

Usage

To create a gallery in the directory output from a all images in the directory images:

.. code:: sh

$ gallerize output/ images/*

See the usage help for more information on specifying a gallery title, image captions, image dimensions, and more:

.. code:: sh

$ gallerize --help

.. _Python: http://www.python.org/ .. _ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/ .. _jpegoptim: https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim .. _Jinja: http://jinja.pocoo.org/ .. _virtualenv: http://www.virtualenv.org/ .. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/