Software Update: jAlbum 11.3

Version 11.3 of jAlbum has been released. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a clean interface, photos can be easily adjusted, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. If everything is to your liking, the result can be placed on a web page via the built-in FTP client. Because the software is developed in Java, jAlbum is available for a wide range of operating systems. The Windows version has issues with some versions of Java and is therefore bundled with Java, resulting in a larger download.

Since version 10, the program is no longer free for commercial use and ads are used in the free version. A standard license for version 11 and all 11 series updates costs 39 euros, removes all advertising and gives access to higher priority support. Other licenses, for commercial use or in conjunction with cloud storage, are also available available. If you don’t need these new options or would rather not show ads with their photos, you can still version 9 to download. In version 11.3 the following changes and improvements have been made:

News and Updates

• Now preloads the recent album projects list with a sample album project that demonstrates making a full portfolio site using jAlbum including sub folders and custom contact and about pages
• Skins can now provide user interfaces for custom web pages like “About.htt” and “Contact.htt”! This enables end users to customize such pages graphically from within jAlbum’s edit mode = no need to display html source code to end users. Give it a try by opening the sample portfolio project and double click “About.htt” or “Contact.htt”. (The source code can still be edited by right clicking template pages and selecting “Edit” from the context menu). These user interfaces are declared within elements of the template pages so the skin developer both declares and uses his variables in one convenient location.
• Added ability to order album objects by title and caption
• Added ability to view and edit Titles as well as file names and captions from the thumbnail view (See View->”Label type”)
• Label type for thumbnail view (file name, title, caption) now visible and changeable in status bar
• Creates web-safe file names if non-safe file names are being used without URL-encoding being active. This should ensure less viewing problems for files using characters like %, #, ? and &
• Minor user interface tweaks
• Minor code improvements (better naming of CPU threads)
• More robust reading of camera metadata
• Recent project list now max 50 instead of 25 files
• Bundled with updated Turtle 4.3.0 skin
• Languages ​​updated. Thank you dear translators!

Bug fixes

• Better memory management: Better at releasing unused data in situations where memory is low. jAlbum should now be far better at processing huge albums without running into out of memory conditions.
• Fixed deadlock bug in Widget panel causing the user interface to hang
• Some Windows systems would experience slow or hanging start up due to misconfigured printer drivers
• Album projects can now be opened again by simply dropping their folders onto jAlbum
• Prevents copying a file to itself (thereby rendering the file zero bytes in length)
• The state of custom UIs wasn’t saved when making the album
• Handles broken manifest.jmf files on upload = more robust uploads on shaky network connections