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In an attempt to make the photo album a bit less pitiful, I have decided to use the webmagick program to format my photo archive. It does things pretty well, but I have a few gripes:

• Cannot handle symlinks to subdirectories when in recursive mode.
• No easy way to change width of frames.
• Image mapping (the default way of presenting thumbnails) is applied incorrectly after the first 5 thumbnails.

These issues were fairly easily circumvented. The first one was overcome with a simple script. I just call the script whenever I want a directory and all of its symlinked subdirectories recompiled.

I had to hack the source to get the second one fixed. A patch is posted on their support forum. I've also filed a wishlist item against the debian package.

I don't feel like messing around too much with the image mapping thing. Setting $opt_tables to 1 took care of the problem by forcing a different method to be used. The other method looked a bit nicer, though.