From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 29 15:25:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58ED516A469 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2B913C4CC for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so4290189rvb.43 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:25:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=8ftyZoxHJJQUstmhNWr0KWVTPK0vhBmZmUh1ShxbF0A=; b=CsnTZ+K5FUsNY9F0jHFSRvLxq8eIQzUgbtX/6o+T0YapbHEoMbMfWYQICFn+caQaYN/q1eOoG50jNdm95Mn6GkUZfPJd8wnqKw9newKJxCQplObB4RyQ6OBprgX2EHeznJQBkVaakTFL+dfeAlM9z6nmEB0k3AEjg1hGMNVE1ZM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=QbAzrbR3iJkSqyGD1tAacsvCCURQftgyyNISkl/sVhjz1iGpFvErejyykHrj/1YnICn+wboLx2ym/3uZBl1UIOjHNp/IoheiQ3HdDTb3F5/Kv8/FzZ8cct2w9SeZD+RpIK8HaJDhqvZj2Ewkjkw10XoSUIQdN3s31PcyxxvCKFo= Received: by 10.140.169.4 with SMTP id r4mr5405939rve.131.1198941951588; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:25:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from brahma.susmita.org ( [59.92.15.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g6sm13811943rvb.25.2007.12.29.07.25.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:25:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by brahma.susmita.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 7BBFDCCED; Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:55:45 +0530 (IST) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:55:45 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071229152545.GB14971@brahma.susmita.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47765E94.3000500@shopzeus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47765E94.3000500@shopzeus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Subject: Re: Photo organizer for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:25:52 -0000 On 15:49:56 Dec 29, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > Hi, > > Can you tell me what kind of software should I use for organizing photos? > Here are my requirements: > > - should be able to handle many photos (right now we are using Picasa on > Ubuntu but for 100 000+ photos it is very slow and unstable) > - should be able to save comments/annotations for the photos (I do not like > Picasa because it uses a special database for that. I would like to have > txt files saved in the same directory where the photos are, or something > similar.) You can trivially do this with the convert command. Refer to my article. http://linuxjournal.com/9566 > - should have a full text search feature (search for photos with given > keywords) This can be easily done. I would guess there would be a third party tool to do this. > - should run on Windows and FreeBSD. (Actually, I would like to burn > self-starting DVDs, so a Python or Perl based GUI would be great) I wonder if netpbm or ImageMagick is available in Cygwin or in some other form in Windows. > Well, if there is a web server based solution, that is fine with me, I need > to burn photos to DVDs and be able to use them. > > Can you recommend something from the ports tree? Or should I write my own > program? You can try this web based solution. I have never tried it, but apparently it would do a lot of heavy-lifting for you. http://gallery.menalto.com/ Best, Girish