Hello,
I would like to know if it is possible to disable thumbnails / the thumbnail view completely.
Just a brief sketch of what I want to do: nearly all my images are in 800x600, and I want to want to keep these dimensions in the album (the "thumbnail view" page). I've done that with some kind of workaround: make thumbnails with 800 width and set only 1 thumbnail per row. Works quite well, except that this doubles the disk space needed - as the thumbnails are exactly the same images as the original files. So that leads to my question: how can I simply disable the creation of thumbnails, or how can I otherwise make the original images appear in the "thumbnail view" page? In an experimental mood, I've tried to leave the "prefix for thumbnails" field in the settings blank (hoping that coppermine would take the originale files as thumbnails), but that didn't quite work. ;D
I'm very sorry if this has already been asked; I've searched the board and read threads for half an hour, but I really couldn't find anything that matches my situation.
No-one? In case the answer to my question is so obvious that nobody replies, please just tell me, because I can't really find something...
No reply?!
Impossible without vast changes of coppermine's core code.
Quote from: GauGau on August 17, 2007, 09:40:13 AM
Impossible without vast changes of coppermine's core code.
Ok, thanks! But isn't there any better workaround than creating full-size thumbnails?
Thumbnails don't hurt in terms of file size, since they are so extremely small. Showing the thumbnails page with 800 x 600 pixels is a waste of resources of your site's visitors imo, so I have little advice for you. Post a link to your gallery for a start.
Quote from: GauGau on August 17, 2007, 07:43:43 PM
Thumbnails don't hurt in terms of file size, since they are so extremely small. Showing the thumbnails page with 800 x 600 pixels is a waste of resources of your site's visitors imo, so I have little advice for you. Post a link to your gallery for a start.
Thanks GauGau, but I think you didn't quite understand me: in fact, I don't want thumbnails at all! I want the full-size pictures to be displayed when viewing an album. As a workaround, I've made Coppermine create 800x600 thumbnails, which is the exactly the size of the full-size pictures.
This is my static HTML gallery: http://www.mivbreiziger.be/archief/ -- if you click 'T2000', you get all the full-size pictures. But such a static HTML gallery doesn't offer a lot of possiblities, so that's why I installed copppermine!
This is my coppermine gallery: http://www.mivbreiziger.be/coppermine/index.php
The problem: if you click a category in my coppermine gallery, you get the thumbnail view (don't have to explain you that, you've made it :P ). But in fact, I want to do exactly the same thing as in my static HTML gallery: visitors get to see the full-size pictures when they're hitting T2000. I've done it like this now: http://www.mivbreiziger.be/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=6
You see the small thumbnail used on the frontpage (catlist/alblist) and two full-size pictures. But technically, these two pictures are thumbnails, as Coppermine won't display the full-size pictures in this view. So that's my problem: my thumbnails are as large as my full-size pictures, and takes a LOT of disk space, of course.
So let's repeat my question:
1) Can I simply disable thumbnails, so that visitors get to see the full-size pictures immediately? If this is really impossible, then:
2) Is there another workaround than what I've done now (= creating thumbnails of the same size as the full-size pictures)?
Thanks!
Several full-size pics on one page is a waste of bandwidth/resources imo. What you're up to is not possible using coppermine. Maybe another application can do what you're up to.