This is the documentation for IndexMaker - a GIMP Plugin

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IndexMaker is a plugin that generates Index files (in either jpg, tif or native xcf format) for a
directory containing jpeg and tif pictures. Here's a short Description of how to install and use it:

Installation: It's like the standard installation of most other gimp plugins. You download the script to anywhere on your harddisk
then call gimptool --install-bin scriptname after this the new entry will be available in the Xtns/Render Menu
of your GIMP Toolbox(restart gimp!). Just like this:
If you then press <IndexMaker> the following mask will jump up:

The controls are used to do the following:
1. Path is the directory where to take images from
2. Frame Color is not used yet, as there are no frames!
3. Displayfont is the font, which is used to annotate the images
4. Recursive specifies wether the tool recurses into subdirectories or not.
5. Background color is the color of the background
6. Foreground color is the color of the annotations
7. Index File is the template name for the index files. If you specify test.jpg it will create test00nn.jpg files
8. Columns/Rows are the Columns/Rows per index page
9. Annotate: no means no comments, yes means only the filenames and main comment. with full every file will be annotated with uid, gid size and date.
10. This is the percentage of the page to be used as border area inbetween the images
11. Paper width/height Width/Height of the image generated (in Pixels)
12. Orientation of the images: none/landscape/protrait.
So for example an index with the standard settings (like above), will look like this:

if you change recursive to yes, Annotate to full, Columns to 5 and Rows to 5, it will look like that:

and so on ... Playing around with it shouldn't be complicated.
If you are a Geek you may want to have a look at source code documentation, which is available here.
To download the beta version click here(if anybody can tell me where the warnings are coming from, I will happily remove them): download beta mk_index_pl gimp perl script
To download it jump to: download at the GIMP Plugin registry
Don't hesitate to contact me, if you have any questions: mail me!