Software Update: jAlbum 13.1

Version 13.1 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 therefore the download is 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 13 currently costs 39 euros. Other licenses, for commercial use or in conjunction with cloud storage, are also available available. New in version 13 includes the ability to put together an album with multiple people, photos can be automatically organized based on the EXIF ​​information and there are now multiple levels to undo steps. The complete changelog looks like this:

News and Updates

• Supports fast reading of 38 RAW file formats. See new “RAW” settings panel when editing images.
• Icons are rendered in hiDPI on retina displays (vector based instead of bitmap based)
• Mac version now plays mp4 videos from the embedded browser too
• Updated skins, and bundled with recently released Responsive skin
• Improved error reporting for fatal errors
• All installers (including Linux) are now bundled with latest Java 8 (1.8.0_u74)
• The space key now serves as shortcut to open the currently selected image in full screen review mode
• Developers: Added “widgetJavaScript” variable to enable widget support in skins that rely on JavaScript instead of iframe for embedding
• The progress dialog shown during album making is now resizable

Bug fixes

• Skin loading could crash with a ClassNotFound exception
• The text filter and Text effect did not accept the $ sign (was reserved for marking variables only)
• jAlbum would freeze if trying to move a linked folder to within itself
• Changes made to variables during album making was not always respected
• Videos flagged with “Do not re-encode” would end up in the root of the album folder instead of under “slides”
• Videos marked with “Do not re-encode” were missing the videoWidth and videoHeight variables
• jAlbum would crash when previewing albums on some computers (bug in earlier embedded Java)
• Some languages ​​did not have the “undo”/”redo” words translated