Fnord.

I use and like Bins for generating photo albums like this one. When we upgraded our camera from 2 to 7 megapixels, the small/medium/large image sizing that bins does became a problem: at 7MP, even ’small’ was over 1024×768.

Solution:

Edit the bins config file to reduce the sizes. It uses percentages, so given a target of VGA (640×480) I ended up with 20/40/100%.

For Debian, you first have to copy the default file into your own directory:

   cp /etc/bins/binsrc ~/.bins

Then edit it like so:

  <sizes>
    <size name="Small" shortname="Sm" height="20%" width="20%"/>
    <size name="Medium" shortname="Med" height="40%" width="40%"/>
    <size name="Large" shortname="Lg" height="100%" width="100%"/>
  </sizes>

It works, my family is happier, you have to remove the generated albums and re-run bins on each. Tedious, but only have to do it once.

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