SlideProject

The Java Slide Show Program

• Smooth, animated zooming.
  • An area can be selected to enlarge using the mouse, while holding the button down.
• The show can also be played without user interaction.
• Slides can optionally be listed in an SLS type text file that define
  • the order,
  • stopping points of the slide show,
  • optional 90° rotation and mirroring,
  • virtual folders and subfolders,
  • animations, movies, running programs:
    • static pictures (JPEG, GIF or PNG) played as an animation sequence,
    • movies,
    • external Java or native programs,
  • points highlighted with circles:
    • circle can be visible always or when mouse pointer is close (optional),
    • zooming encircled area when pointer is close,
  • optional transition effects:
    • cross-fade, zoom-in and their combination,
    other effects:
    • playing audio files (AU or WAV),
    • panorama scrolling horizontally or vertically,
    • smooth zooming in or out,
    • fading in/out of text or additional images.

• Saving images
  • for viewing as a slide show with other viewers
    (output filenames start with slide numbers),
  • for printing in standard sizes
    (with additional borders).
• Lossless JPEG transformations:
  
  • 90° rotation, mirroring, cropping.
• Effects, Tools and Audio menus for
  • highlighting points,
  • creating transition effects.
  • angle and scaling factor calculation for the alignment of two images,
    (Note that another program like GIMP is needed for the transformation.)
  • finding and extracting WAV audio tracks from image files.
• Image taking conditions (Exif info) can be displayed in compact form.
• Saving latitude/longitude of points on maps as GPX <wpt> tags.
• Additional command line tools.
  PxWAV to find and extracts WAV audio samples from JPEG files, PBinGrep to search in binary files, JPEGQuality for compression quality calculation.