Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

[Tim]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:18 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from
> various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a
> specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric
> file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!).
> 
> *Surely* people want to be able to do this.

Yes, I know what you mean.  I resorted to HTML albums through my
webserver, writing the HTML to display a gallery to my preferences.
Which does mean that any PC on the LAN can view them without needing
anything special, but may be more malarkey than you want to deal with,
and a pain if you want a slideshow view (doable, but more of a hassle to
write the pages to work both ways).

The alternative was to name files like you wrote line numbers for BASIC
programming back in the 1980s - you increment file numbers by ten, by
default, leaving space for insertions.

Another alternative would be to use a presentation program, like
OpenOffice.org Impress (no, not really, I don't like it much...).  With
one of them, you can drop images into them in the sequence that you
want, it doesn't care how they're dated or named.

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