Software Update: Jalbum 8.5.3

Version 8.5.3 of Jalbum was released on Monday, as a successor to version 8.5.1. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a well-arranged interface, photos can be easily edited, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. Once 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 following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

News and Updates

• Publishing from the command line now capable of creating missing directories on the server
• Jalbum’s image crop tool/filter is now more convenient to work with. Hold down SHIFT at any time to snap a region to the selected image ratio.
• New image scalers and image processors (loading, scaling, filtering, saving) can now be plugged in.
• Translating Jalbum’s image filters is now easier
• Better reporting if an album doesn’t fit before publishing
• New icons
• Jalbum now processes a common.css file during album making
• Renaming a project will also reset the remote destination folder. This in order to avoid publishing a new album on top of another.
• When signing in, new account profiles are set up unless there are only non-jalbum accounts set up.
• The generation of thumbnails can be switched off in the album engine.

Bug fixes

• Publishing from the command line when passing a project file as parameter failed
• Jalbum produced a “Do you want to save changes” dialog when the only change was “Make all” vs “Make changes”