Re: [Gramps-users] New report Proposal: Album

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

This is a good idea.

If nobody else is interested in writing it, then I'll have a go.

Nick.


derHeinzi wrote:
> Proposal for discussion:
> If one adds old photographs to the data managed by Gramps and defines image
> regions for persons to be shown in the NarWeb report, it would be nice to
> have a report generating a "photo album" using this information. 
> What I imagine is:
>
> - One photo per page
> - Referenced persons listet below the photo (Last name, first name, call
> name, patronymic and optionally the relation to the main person of the
> report
> - Some kind of indication who is who (reference between listed names and
> image region of the person.
> - Report should be possible for media from user defined media filter (to
> filter out images e.g. of scanned source documents)
>
> The "who is who" could be done e.g. by 
> - numbering the referenced persons and printing a semi transparent number
> inside the image region defined for this person or
> - drawing a line from the center of the persons name to the center of the
> image region defined for this person.
> (To be seen, the number or the line would probably have to use a light or
> dark color depending on the background lightness!)
>
> You could then take this album (together with the original images) to your
> relatives and ask about persons not yet identified in the photographs. 
>
> Would other users find such a report useful as well? Is it difficult to do?
> (My skills are not sufficient to write such a report myself.)
>
> Kind regards, Heinz
>
>