Why is a web location red? ...

AndreWolff

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Why is a web location red?
Posted: 15-Jul-2017 14:06

I have added a map as a web location to my Photoblogger test album.

The background of the weblocation image is red instead of the original white map.

What do I wrongly?

jGromit

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 15-Jul-2017 14:43

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No problem here. See screenshot.

For some reason, the image in your album is in the CMYK color space instead of sRGB. I don't know why - when I enter the same URL for the web page, jAlbum picks up a "clean" JPG, in the correct color space. Did you enter a URL for the representing image manually?

AndreWolff

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 15-Jul-2017 16:10

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I just dropped the url from the browser address box on the jAlbum Explorer.
I did the same with my Tiger test album and there it is OK.

Edited by: AndreWolff on 15-Jul-2017 16:25

jGromit

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 15-Jul-2017 16:34

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I can't reproduce the error. Anyone else?

AndreWolff

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 15-Jul-2017 16:59

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I did add the website again, but now via a new page. Now it is not red, but the window is smaller, why?
See my Photobloger test album.

Laza

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 08:33

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The first is the slide image (1200x1117), while the second is the normal thumbnail (86x80px). You might want to bump up the thumbnail size - 225x80 is way too small for Photoblogger. The default is 300x300. The redness is probably caused by a wrong Java version. Please remove the red file from the slides folder and regenerate the album with the latest jAlbum.

AndreWolff

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 16:25

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Laza wrote:
The redness is probably caused by a wrong Java version. Please remove the red file from the slides folder and regenerate the album with the latest jAlbum.

I updated to jAlbum 14.0.7, removed the weblocations from the Explorer, added the weblocation again via drag and drop, removed the images fronm the slides directory and did a Make.

The result is still red on a PC: see my test album
On my iPad it is black!

Edited by: AndreWolff on 17-Jul-2017 16:37

Laza

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 19:04

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You are a magician.

Whatever I tried I could not reproduce this error with the same URL.

AndreWolff

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 19:56

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Yes I did hear that earlier, see here.

But I am still not sure about the correct JAVA version.
The About box says jAlbum 14.0.7 JAVA 1.8 64 bit, is that the same as you see?

I did attach the project file, may that helps you.

jGromit

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 17-Jul-2017 20:54

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Laza wrote:
You are a magician.

Whatever I tried I could not reproduce this error with the same URL.

I tried everything I could think of, both in Win10 and macOS, and couldn't reproduce it, either. The resulting JPG is in the CMYK color space - that's why it's a mess. In Firefox and Chrome, it's mostly red - Safari just gives up completely, and displays solid black. I have no idea how it's even possible to make jAlbum produce a CMYK image. There's certainly no project setting that would do that.

Laza

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 19-Jul-2017 08:07

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I can imagine if you link to originals and enter the representing image manually you can achieve this. Or perhaps jAlbum picks the wrong representing image from WikiPedia sometimes? Anyway it's strange no one else but Andre can achieve this. There must be some "secret".

AndreWolff

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 19-Jul-2017 09:39

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Laza wrote:
I can imagine if you link to originals and enter the representing image manually you can achieve this.

I did not do that

Or perhaps jAlbum picks the wrong representing image from WikiPedia sometimes?

Could be, I can repair it by making a screen dump of the map at the website and next edit the image URL.

The map is not red if I add the same location again via drag and drop, but than the quality of the image is very bad, see the test album. How can I improve that?

I can't get the webloication displayed between the images where I dropped the web location. Is that impossible?

Laza

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 19-Jul-2017 10:37

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The "Settings / Photoblogger / Advanced / Folder thumbnail size" variable is set to 86x80. Set this back to its default value: 600x420.

AndreWolff

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 19-Jul-2017 11:20

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Laza wrote:
The "Settings / Photoblogger / Advanced / Folder thumbnail size" variable is set to 86x80. Set this back to its default value: 600x420.

I have already that setting, see attached screen shot, so it is caused by something else.

I did add also an image discussed in this thread. It shows here the caption correct below the thumbnail. The ListMetaData shoiws the same result as with other skins.
If I click on that image, the image is enlarged, but I see no navigation buttons to go back or go to the next slide. I like to see here also the caption. What should I do to see a caption and see navigation buttons?

If I make a test album with only the problem image, the caption is also displyaed wrongly, see here. Can you explain the difference?

Laza

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Re: Why is a web location red?
Posted: 19-Jul-2017 11:28

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Yes, unfortunately it seems the skin doesn't know the previous folder thumbnail size, so you need to remove that manually first from the output folder.