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pywiUpload - Prepare a gallery of images for Piwigo
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This Python script prepares a gallery of images for Piwigo gallery
script (see http://www.piwigo.org/). It resizes images, creates
thumbnails with some options (rename images, squared thumbs, ...), and
upload images to a FTP server.

Dependencies
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- Python Imaging Library (PIL) 
- exiv2 (for exif datas)
- ConfigObj

on Ubuntu:
    > sudo apt-get install python-imaging python-pyexiv2 python-configobj

on Fedora (as root):
    > yum install python-imaging pyexiv2 ?

The script should also work on other system (Windows, Mac) but this has not be
tested yet.

Installation
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- unzip files where you want

Usage
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go in the directory of images to process and launch the script:
    > cd /path/to/images
    > python /path/to/pywiUpload/pywiUpload.py

Options:
- launch the script with the directory of images to process in argument:
    > cd /path/to/pywiUpload/
    > python pywiUpload.py -i /path/to/images
- you can also provides a config file (useful if you have different settings)
    > cd /path/to/pywiUpload/
    > python pywiUpload.py -c mypywiUpload.conf -i /path/to/images

Settings
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Adapt setting to your needs in the configuration file (pywiUpload.conf):
- Size of images and thumbnails
- JPG quality
- Thumbnails prefix
- FTP parameters

Options
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Some features are optionnal (1=enable / 0=disable):
- Add a copyright on the images
- Keep big images
- Keep exif datas
- Make squared thumbnails