jAlbum/Preferences

These are the program settings. These settings will change the behaviour of the program and will be applied to all album projects. OSV OSV......

General

• Language: You can change the language, jAlbum is translated to many different languages but note that the skin settings might not be translated since the interface for the skin settings is created by the skin developers.
• Look and feel: You can also change the Look and feel of the user interface. By default you will have the Look and feel of your OS.
• Number of Threads: You can change the Number of Threads, this setting determines how many images and slide pages that will be processed simultaneously. Read more about this here.
• Logging level: You can also change the logging level, which controls the level of details in error messages. If you get error messages and need support, it's great if you can change the logging level and send us a more details error report. ???
• Check for updates: When this checkbox is ticked you will get a pop up when you start jAlbum telling you to update if you are not using the most recent version of jAlbum.
• Show warning dialogs:
• Display thumbnails in file chooser:
• Remember last window position and size:
• Save backups of album projects:
• Show tip of the day:
• Use jAlbum’s integrated browser:
• Close progress dialog when done:

Album

• When adding files: You can choose what jAlbum shall do when you are adding new files to the program, the options are ask, copy or link. Ask is the default state, but if you know that you are always linking the images or always copying it might be a good idea to change it so that you don't have to answer that question every time you are adding new images to jAlbum. You can read more about copying and linking here.
• "My Albums" location: You can change the location of the folder My Albums, this is the folder that contains all the album projects on your computer.
• Illegal characters: Add and remove illegal characters, just press Restore to get the default settings back.
• Clean old output files on make all:
• Synchronise output directory:
• Cache thumbnails:
• Video support:,
• Allow local flash preview:
• Keep track of files copied from memory cards:

Skins

• Use layout hints
• Restore previous settings:

Image editing

• Write xmp metadata to files:

Publishing

• After publishing: Deicides what jAlbum shall do after the album has been published, you can open published album or do nothing. open published album is the default setting.
• Include high-res images for print and backup: A folder called hi-res will be included in the uploaded album containing all images in high resolution.
• Include the lifeboat file: Includes a zip file in the uploaded album containing a back-up of your album settings.
• Max simultaneous transfers: This setting is set to 8 by default. If you for example get memory problems it might be a good idea to try and lower it to 4.

Advanced

• Use zip streaming when available: Helps speed up the transferring by transferring the whole album as one compressed file.

Paranoia

• Encrypt manifest file: Prevents album viewers from inspecting the manifest file and in that way list your published files.

Advanced

• Web proxy settings: You can configure the proxy host and port.
• Compatibility mode: Can make older skins work, but it requires more RAM memory.
• Attempt to use native file dialogs:
• Unify image color model to RGB or ABGR:
• You can also see a list of the supported video formats, the list can be edited.