About:
BINS is a valid HTML 4 photo album generator with support for internationalization, EXIF, and customizable charset encoding, including UTF-8 (Unicode). Albums can contains other sub-albums. The appearance of the album can be fully personalized by using template and configuration parameters. The number and size of scaled pictures can be chosen in pixels or percentage of the original image. Several description fields (date, location, etc.) can be associated with the pictures, and you can add additional description fields. A command line utility or a GTK+ GUI can be used to set or edit description fields. BINS can use the EXIF data structure found in some pictures to automatically fill some fields (most notably, date and time) and to produce a page providing all information available on the picture, as well as the DigiCam settings when the photo was taken. All image meta-data are stored in XML files.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This release added a search engine, two new template styles (martin and mwolson), support of jpegtran with MMX, some miscellaneous tools, a few bugfixes, and an FAQ.

Author:
Jérôme SAUTRET [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.57/10.00 (21 votes)

Homepage:
http://bins.sautret.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://bins.sautret.org/download.html
Tar/BZ2:
http://bins.sautret.org/download.html
Changelog:
http://bins.sautret.org/ChangeLog
RPM package:
http://rpmfind.net/[..]ery=bins&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/bins.html
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/www/bins/
Bug tracker:
https://gna.org/bugs/?group=bins
Mailing list archive:
http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/bins
Mirror site:
http://bins2.sautret.org/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

Dependencies: [change]
ImageMagick (Default branch) (required)
Perl (Default branch) (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.1.29	26-Aug-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.1.29	Major feature enhancements	26-Aug-2005 05:33
1.1.28	Minor feature enhancements	06-Aug-2005 13:55
1.1.27	Minor feature enhancements	24-Oct-2004 19:32
1.1.26	Minor feature enhancements	27-May-2004 16:15
1.1.25	Minor feature enhancements	23-Feb-2004 13:51
1.1.24	Minor feature enhancements	03-Dec-2003 03:34
1.1.23	Minor feature enhancements	09-Sep-2003 13:56
1.1.22	Major bugfixes	21-Jul-2003 09:31
1.1.21	Minor feature enhancements	06-Apr-2003 23:32
1.1.20	Minor bugfixes	23-Dec-2002 22:15

 Comments

[»] Easy to use, a great way to put an album onto a CD-ROM or web site
by Alexander Blazej - Jan 21st 2006 09:01:48

Most other gallery generation software requires the web sever to have support software (such as a MySQL database or PHP). Because the output of BINS is pre-computed, no such support is needed. This allows me to use BINS to generate an album then just burn the album to a CD-ROM. To post on my web site all I have to do is upload the album and I'm done. BINS comes with several themes to choose from, and you can modify the themes to make your own customized theme to match the look of your web site. BINS is easy to setup, easy to use, easy to distribute and looks great.

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[»] mandrake official 10
by paxmark1 - Jul 10th 2004 13:12:25

Installed all the perl modules via .rpm and tried and tried, went from stopping at live 51 to stopping on bins line 52.

Any ideas?

peace

mark

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[»] Re: mandrake official 10
by billbest - Jan 12th 2005 14:38:47

hi

see below


> Installed all the perl modules via .rpm

> and tried and tried, went from stopping

> at live 51 to stopping on bins line 52.

>

>

> Any ideas?

>

> peace

>

> mark


i had the same error myself and found the above query whilst looking for a solution to my problem.

it is a problem with a Perl module not loaded - in the above case i suspect that it is Image::Info

here's another example:

Can't locate Data/Grove.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
...
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/bins line 63.

in this case you have to run install the Data::Grove module.

this worked for me - hope this helps somebody else.

cheers

bill
--
sheffield, uk


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[»] Description with pictures
by Ted - May 27th 2004 13:03:44

I think that the thing I love most about BINS is the fact that the descriptions are stored with the photos. It seems like every other program wants to store the information on the photos in some internal database, or in a configuration directory. By having the data next to the photos I can move them around together - which is especially important as my photos are in version control. Now I can completely recreate any version of my repository, text and all.

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[»] This one was just right...
by StuartJ - Sep 4th 2002 17:14:35

I have been searching a while for a good html photo album generator. I wanted something simple but not lacking in important features. It had to produce nice looking output and I wanted one that generates static pages. BINS is just about perfect!

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