In https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...Good-Page-Load, we have been exploring how to set up a gallery of images (& videos) that is not heavy-handed by being all crammed into a design file (XAR/WEB) as this makes editing and publishing unwieldy.
The use of the Xara built-in HighSlide JS is stale and moribund. It has a number of lacks:
- What you see in the Thumbnail is what appears in the large presentation. The plus is it is scaled and published without any needed user intervention.
- The large images can not be given any image filename.
- Everything get downloaded all at once.
nanogallery2 will accept a separate thumbnail of any size but it is easier just to consider a simple grid.
In a nutshell:
- Use Get fills to bring in your folder of nicely-named images.
- Create a grid of boxes 240x160px.
- For each box, use Apply as fill to place the image into the box.
- Switch to the Fill tool and reposition and scale the Thumbnail.
- Switch to Web Properties > Image > Web image type and decide JPEG or PNG and Apply.
- Switch to Web Properties > Image > Image and for each box, in turn:
- Click photo filename.
- Click the Apply button.
- Export Website to a local folder.
- Open it index_html_files folder and extract all your named Thumbnails to their new home.
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