Download jAlbum 10.1

Version 10.1 of jAlbum has been released. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a clean interface, photos can be easily edited, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. If everything is to your liking, the result can be placed on a web page via the built-in ftp client. Because the software is developed in Java, jAlbum is available for a wide range of operating systems.

Since version 10, the program is no longer free for commercial use. A license for version 10 and all 10-series updates costs 39 euros, removes all advertising and gives access to higher priority support. Also new is full support for xmp metadata, the possibility to integrate created albums into websites and the possibility to exchange images and even complete folders between different projects. In version 10.1, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

News and Updates

• Updated filter bar: You can now filter on keywords too. Use comma and plus separated keywords to narrow the number of images to match your liking
• Fast and convenient keyword tagging: jAlbum learns your keywords and autocompletes them as you type
• jAlbum now offers you to “like” the currently used skin after a successful album upload.
• Reset filter bar button added to filter bar
• Filter bar can be closed with escape key
• jAlbum’s xmp property editor now imports metadata like Author, Keywords and Copyright from the older IPTC fields if an image lacks xmp fields but has IPTC fields
• The filter bar now applies a logical “AND” between the ratings, flags and keywords categories, so it’s now easier to for instance filter for all “5-star nature images”
• Bundled Turtle skin updated to v2.1.2
• New LicenseManager API replacing SignInManager for handling licenses
• Minor user interface polishing
• jAlbum’s PluginContext API now has a getCurrentFolder() call too.
• Windows version bundled with latest official Java version (1.6.0_27)
• Defaults to using Java’s more modern “Desktop” API for launching browsers and opening file system folders in Explorer and Finder

Bug fixes

• jAlbum 10 introduced incompatibility with some skins (triggered scripting errors due to missing API call). Now fixed.
• The external tool “Apply ordering to subfolders” was broken.
• Some albums could get a broken parent link from the top level instead of no parent link (${parentIndexPage} was incorrectly null instead of missing)
• When moving to a parent folder in a final album, you were incorrectly taken to the first index page instead of the index page linking to the current folder.
• More robust against broken image data structures when figuring out image orientation