album2gallery.pl 2.0.1

dlaporte

Joined: 2003-08-03
Posts: 11
Posted: Sun, 2004-11-21 18:31

Adobe has folded Photoshop Album functionality into the latest version of Elements (3.0). It seems they also made a few subtle database schema changes that broke album2gallery. This new release includes support for PSE3 as well as a few SQL query optimizations.

I no longer have Photoshop Album and am unable to test with it. Please let me know if there are any issues with it.

http://www.laportestyle.org/tools.php

thanks,
David
 
ahbrown41

Joined: 2004-12-01
Posts: 5
Posted: Wed, 2004-12-01 18:28

David looks like a neat program. Any chance you want to modify it for ACDSee :-)

It is just what I am looking for. Do you simply upload with WebDAV...interesting?

ACDSee actually has an export as XML feature that could do much of the work.
 
dlaporte

Joined: 2003-08-03
Posts: 11
Posted: Sat, 2004-12-04 06:04

It's been a while since I looked at ACDSee. If I remember right, they have a fairly proprietary backend that prevented me from supporting it.

If you can find any details on how I could read the data out, I'd be happy to add support. An XML export may do the trick, but I'd prefer to not add the extra step.
 
ahbrown41

Joined: 2004-12-01
Posts: 5
Posted: Mon, 2004-12-06 20:53

Well after evaluation various options I think I will go with Elements 3.0 with the built in Album. So I will not need the support myself.

I looked at ACDSee and it appears to use the DB2 database format. There is a direct PERL plugin for the format.

I am waiting on my copy of Elements 3. It looks like the "light" version of album has a slightly different db schema. I was looking at writing a Java tool that could perhaps go into Gallery Remote. Not sure if I will have the time though. I am not familier with Swing.....

Thanks for getting back to me.