Zumbnail

Nowadays each digital camera, printer, and OS, comes with its own really crappy thumbnailing and picture-organizing utility. If you like getting frustrated with your mouse, use one of those. But if you have a directory tree of thousands of images on a unix file server and need to index that into a few dozen hard-copy contact sheets, you might want to try out zumbnail instead.

Sample Contact Sheet (Shrunk Down 4x)

Zumbnail is a Tcl (wish) script that takes pictures, shrinks them down, and puts about 70 of them onto each "contact sheet". Contact sheets are also images -- generated by zumbnail -- which can then be printed out on your color Deskjet. Underneath each thumbnail is the name of the image.

Images are grouped by the directory in which they were found. The name of the directory is printed as a paragraph header, followed by the thumbnails. Below each thumbnail is the base name of the image in grey small print.

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