@dircategory WebMagick Image Web Generator * WebMagick: (webmagick.info). WebMagick Image Web Generator
Copyright (C) 1997,1998, Bob Friesenhahn (bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us)
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WebMagick creates HTML index files and imagemaps corresponding to a directory of image files. WebMagick is ideal for making large image collections available on the net or for just using your Web browser for browsing images.
Configuration options are derived from either the command line (options
prefixed with '-', '--', or '+'), configuration file ($opt_ options), or
internal defaults ($opt_ options). Some arguments (like X11 font
specifications) seem to confuse PERL's getopt function. When this
happens, try using the syntax --option=arg
to avoid any confusion
caused by a space.
The default configuration file name is `.webmagickrc'.
Configuration files are written in PERL syntax and are sourced via
PERL's eval statement. When WebMagick is executed, it first
reads files listed in the @global_option_files array
(`/etc/webmagickrc' and `$HOME/.webmagickrc' by default). When
a directory is processed, WebMagick will process any
`.webmagickrc' files found in the path from the server's root
directory (specified by $opt_rootpath
(see section Specify Server Root Path)) to the
directory being processed. All configuration options are additive.
Evaluation order (inverse of precedence) is as follows :
Each directory is processed with items 1 & 2 already complete.
In general, WebMagick's defaults produce nice output. However,
the options $opt_prefixpath
(see section Specifying Root Prefix), $opt_rootpath
(see section Specify Server Root Path), $opt_iconpath
(see section Specifying WebMagick Icon Location),
$opt_htimage
(see section Imagemap Program), and $opt_maptype
(see section Imagemap Type) must be configured on a per-site basis so please
read the documentation on these options and perform the required
configuration before executing the program.
A key configuration/installation issue is that WebMagick depends on the image files being on the same filesystem as the icons. The reason for this limitation is that this allows WebMagick to determine the mapping between the physical disk and the server's URLs. If someone knows a better algorithm than this one, please let the author know.
By default the output files of WebMagick for the first page are as follows (second page replace '1' with '2', etc.):
index.html
indexjs.html
.cache
.indexdir.html
.indexjs.html
.index.pl
.index.js
.index1.html
.index1.gif
.index1.jpg
.index1.map
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