Software Update: jAlbum 12.1.8

Version 12.1.8 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.

Previously there was also a free version, which showed advertisements, but the program is now fully commercial and can be tried for 30 days. A standard license for version 12 and all updates from the 12 series costs 39 euros. This bundle is temporarily offered with a discount of 10 euros. Other licenses, for commercial use or in conjunction with cloud storage, are also available available. If you don’t need these new options or prefer not to show ads with your photos, it’s better to go to version 9 to stay. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

News and Updates

• Skin info window now also displays physical location on hard disk
• Developers: The AlbumImage.applyFilter API now passes variables bound to the corresponding album object if the AlbumImage was created with an AlbumObject as parameter
• Developers: The CropFilter and FixedShapeFilter can now accept custom per-image crop regions (passed via user variables)
• Updated bundled skins “Turtle” and “Fully”

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug causing image corruption on certain images when editing recently edited captions (Since 11.6)
• “Make changes” is now respected again (ie images are only reprocessed if they are missing in the output directory or if individual images have been updated)
• Left, then right clicking an album object quickly on Mac would accidentally open it for editing
• Fixed occasional error about “not being in pause state” during album upload
• Embedded browser preview now works with password protected pages too