Community @ The Turning Gate

Indeed. Quit Lightroom, replete in finder. Plug in is now at 4.0.7

perfect!

Possibly not? I first installed backlight January 6th. So it's that version.

What is the proper procedure for updating the plug-in (and how would I be notified to do so)?

If I "edit in photoshop" "with adjustments from Lightroom" then save and replace the virtual copy with that tiff, it works fine (with edits applied). Though in that process I renamed the resulting tif files, so that may have poisoned the result (EDIT-EDIT-EDIT-3.tiff was not a good idea)

You can right-click on the top level of an album tree and mark to republish. But it errors out if you try to publish, giving the "you must edit this album" error (three times)

Until you edit something on every every album and album set, you can't publish. Once you do that (assuming you haven't run into the other land mines I have found) it will publish an entire 'tree'. I've been publishing a tree for about 4 hours now. Still have one part of the tree that is in the wrong album level set. Trying to figure out why. It actually looks fine in backlight, but its in a different album set in Lightroom

That is actually what I am trying to do. They were migrated from CE3 to CE4 (back when CE4 came out) and then to Backlight this year. Now I am just trying to republish them cleanly. Without rebuilding 300plus albums (and copy/pasting all the text)

This is not a Backlight problem, it's Adobe being obtuse, but hopefully the next person that runs across this find this helpful.

Onward

Well, that's not working

Where previously, the directory structure was:

Collections
   Parks
      ak
         Juneau  
   Trips
      Mtn Biking
         Mackenzie River
      Atlas Obscura 
      Eclipse April 

Now it is:

Collections
   Atlas Obscura 
   Eclipse April
   Juneau   
   Mackenzie River
   Mtn Biking
   Parks
     ak
   Trips
      Mtn Biking
         Mackenzie River

So it has lost some, but not all, hierarchy

This is clearly a Lightroom problem, just not sure how to fix it. No changes to the structure in Lightroom (the albums are in album sets)

Yeah, my galleries are polluted with a lot of compromised php files. Also a lot of leftover CE3 and CE4 files, so not really an option

I’ve spent a lot of time digging through the forums and there are hints tha Galleria handles scaling better, I may give that a try.

I’ve also looked at every site I could find linked here and I see none that combine portrait and landscape in the same slideshow, what have all those people found that I haven’t yet?  So I am going to take that out of the equation as well.

Ironically, my test page does exactly what I want on the iPad:

I am sure it is accidental and its not supposed to

the landscapes are mostly 1920x1280 (some are 2048 wide) are the portraits are 960x1440. Is that large enough? and "for what"? If I QuickLook them, they are much bigger than the site is displaying

1920 in the page template. I am unclear on what, precisely, this limits.

I also figured out that I can not retroactively change the "Page Template" of an Album Template. I can change it in the drop-down, but that doesn't seem to have any effect (yes, I have been clearing the template cache every time). I made a new test page for examining the full-page template path;

There appears to be no way to have any left-right padding that way. The image is all the way to the edge of the viewport (thus no virtual 'matting'). Again, that would seem to be implied in "full screen" except its not full screen top to bottom. Frustrating. I don't actually want Full Screen, I want the scaling behavior of the Full Screen mode.

That creates a page with no menu visible by default (breakpoint=always), which is unacceptable as a home page (where you want to lead people into an action)

I tried creating one with top pallet navigation, but I can't get it to apply (as in the home page theater does not appear to use it, despite having set it to use in in the "page temple" pull down. Do I have to create a new theater to apply it? I'll poke at it for a while. If I can get a "full screen" with a visible top pallet and footer, that may be good enough (can I still do a custom footer?)

I think I understand the aspect ratio usage now. Thank you

Now, how do I control size and scaling? The only control I seem to have is max-width. If I set it so that (a 3:2 aspect) frame fits properly height wise (I can still see the footer) on a 1080p monitor, it still is too big on an iPad and is tiny with huge amounts of padding on the 5k iMac screen. If I increase width so that it nicely fills the 5k, it is way too big (tall) on 1080p. What am I missing to get it to downsize for the shorter viewport? (like it does in fullscreen mode, so it obviously can)