<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br>Recently I started looking for a program to create photobooks that can be uploaded to a company and get a hardcopy. There are several competing companies on the market in Israel:<br><ul><li>Lupa (<a href="http://lupa.co.il">http://lupa.co.il</a>)<br>
</li><li>TzamTzam (via partner <a href="http://digitalalbum.co.il">http://digitalalbum.co.il</a>)</li><li>ZoomZoom (<a href="http://zoomzoom.co.il">http://zoomzoom.co.il</a>)</li><li>probably others (please add)</li></ul>
All of them provide program for Windows, but none for Linux (or even for Mac). Here are results of my testing of the programs in wine1.3 (Ubuntu 10.04 amd64). Here are the steps I took to install additional fonts that might be required by the programs:<br>
<i>for tt in andale32.exe arial32.exe arialb32.exe comic32.exe courie32.exe georgi32.exe impact32.exe times32.exe trebuc32.exe verdan32.exe webdin32.exe;<br>{<br> wget <a href="http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/$tt">http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/$tt</a>;<br>
}<br><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe">http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe</a><br>for tt in *32.exe; { wine $tt; }<br>
</i><br><b><font size="4">Lupa</font></b><br><br>The program has hebrew interface and no option to change the language. To make your wine installation you must first install hebrew fonts:<br><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe">http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe</a><br>
<br>The program also compains on lack of printer spooler (what for??). To simulate it I had to add following two lines to ~/.winerc file:<br>[spooler]<br>LPT1:=|lpr<br><br></div>Almost everything works, but there are couple of problems:<br>
<div><ul><li>on the main window photos are not shown (they become visible if I move them outside of the work area)<br></li></ul><ul><li>menu items are not visible in context menu, only subsequent drop-down ones</li></ul>
The program is most promising one as only minor tweaks are necessary for it being usable.<br>
<br><font size="4"><b>ZoomZoom</b></font><br><br>The program was installled succesfully, but on first launch following error appeared:<br>"MRP500 Pro 5 encountered an error. Error message is: An exception was thrown by the type initialized for MPhoto.Files.IndexList"<br>
<br><font size="4"><b>DigitalAlbum</b></font><br><br>The program installed successfully but crashed with exactly the same error as one provided by ZoomZoom. Similarity of the interface and final error make me think it is the same rebranded program. <br>
<br>Apparently in both cases <a href="http://www.m-photo.com/">MPhoto</a> program is used. Their web site lists several other companies in Israel that use the same program: <a href="http://www.m-photo.com/Success/">http://www.m-photo.com/Success/</a>, so I expect all of them to crash in the same way.<br>
<br>I have sent the message to email addresses of the companies, if they reply to me I will post their answer to the mailing list. <br><br clear="all">--<br>Arie<br><br>
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