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I'm finally getting around to investigating the migration of my CE3 website to CE4. I've started with experimenting with Gallery and I'm running into the following:
• I noticed that when using the sample Whiteout Gallery shiipped with CE4 that there is additional padding shown above and below the masthead on narrower displays (e.g., look at http://www.samcos.com/_sites/rick/galle … -Whiteout/ on a tablet or phone and rotate the device between vertical and horizontal viewing). And it gets MUCH worse when a graphical identity plate is used. You can see it here: http://www.samcos.com/_sites/rick/galle … est-Album/ . This 2nd album’s template is the Whiteout sample template with the only changes being: fonts, a graphical identity plate, and masthead/navigation vert+horiz padding reductions). I’ve tried it in three browsers: Chrome, Firefox, & Safari. This extra padding is not shown/previewed within Lightroom when the preview window is narrowed.
• I have album image metadata (caption) successfully showing in Highslide presentation on desktops. However the metadata which then shows in Magnific is only #/<total #>. How does one get an image’s caption (or other metadata) to display in Magnific (i.e., on small displays)?
TIA for any help!
Rick
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you'll probably want to look into a dynamic masthead.
here's the CE3 version of the tutorial to do this: http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … _mastheads
and my update for CE4: http://ttg-tips-and-tricks.barbeephoto. … heads-ce4/
there is also this to maintain a masthead's aspect ratio, which may be enough for what you're doing: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … pect_ratio
Do you have a link to a gallery that's not showing metadata as you expected? My tests with Magnific set for the desktop and mobile presentations has the metadata on the large image views.
Rod
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Thanks, Rod -- just read up on Dynamic Mastheads and it sounds like that is what I want.
Regarding large image captions not showing on mobiles ... very strange that you are seeing captions. FOR ME the http://www.samcos.com/_sites/rick/galle … est-Album/ gallery in my original email only shows large image captions on the desktop, not on the mobile version (i.e., captions don't show in Magnific version). That is, unless I don't know where to look -- I assume that the caption should be shown in the black bar under each large image in the slideshow. Right now only "#/total#" is showing in that bar's bottom right corner, with close & link icons shown in top bar (unless I tap on the image in which case both top and bottom bars are hidden). BTW, for me the bottom counter doesn't show in desktop presentation, only the image's caption, left justified. This is what I thought that I set up in the template and expect to see on mobiles.
BTW, I haven't enabled (yet) php plugins so no chance that I'm overriding something.
Last edited by rsamco (2015-01-30 02:53:15)
Rick
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that's a strange one.
I just set up a test- a publisher created album using Magnific for both desktop and mobile. It appears that the only metadata showing for the large images is that in the title field (set in Image Info and the Metadata section for Publisher in Output settings). I'm seeing this in both desktop and mobile versions.
It appears that the caption field is not being passed by Publisher, something for Matt and Ben to look at
publisher managed album: http://ce4.barbeephoto.com/galleries/ma … bile-test/
only the Title showing in large images in both desktop and mobile versions.
uploaded gallery: http://ce4.barbeephoto.com/ttg-be/templ … y/magnific both Title and Caption show for large images in desktop and mobile versions
In this latest version of Gallery (6.1.4), Matt added options in the Magnific set up to display Captions and Headings (Title). Make sure yours are checked. Mine are, but I'm not seeing the Captions being displayed for Publisher created albums.
Rod
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Thanks, Rod. I'll wait for a fix for Publisher created captions for Magnific.
BTW, I am using Gallery 6.1.4a and I don't see any specific Magnific set up area anywhere in the template's UI within Lr. In the template's "Appearance" block's "Large Image Presentation" area I have "Highslide Slideshow" selected for "Presentation: Desktop: and "Magnific Popup"selected for "Presentation: mobile". Under that I only have a "Highslide Slideshow" parametric area. I have no similar parametric "Magnific set up" area (which I thought was very strange when I first went through the template initially -- I ended up assuming that Highslide relevant values were used by Magnific and that it didn't have any unique parameters).
I do have "Caption" checked in the "Image Info" template block with "Caption" as the selected value.
Rick
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Select Magnific for the Desktop presentation, you'll see the Magnific option. Make the changes, then go back to Highslide. The Magnific options will stick for the mobile presentation.
Rod
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Thanks, Rod -- that's pretty obscure (but I now vaguely remember reading it somewhere). Anyway, "show captions" is enabled for Magnific. Still waiting on fix for captions not showing in publisher created Magnific albums...
BTW, any (easy) way to show counters in Highslide?
Rick
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BTW, any (easy) way to show counters in Highslide?
I don't think that Highslide can have counters. But take a look at the reference section on their site, maybe you'll find something
http://highslide.com/
Rod
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www.rodbarbee.com
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