<chapter id="chp-importExport">
  <title>Import/Exporting</title>
  <para>If you attend a family party, a company meeting, a conference, or
      any other event where other &kphotoalbum; users may be present, you may
      wish to share your images with those people. You may of course choose
      to generate HTML pages for them to browse, but given you already have
    spent time classifying all images (Who is on the images, where were they
      taken etc), there are no reason for them to redo all that
      work.</para>

    <para>&kphotoalbum; allows you to export a set of your images into a
      <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file, which other people may import into
      their database, to get your classification for these images.</para>

    <para>Two different kind of <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> files exists,
      inlines or externals, referring to whether the images them self are
      located in the file or at some other location. Placing the images in
      the file has the obvious advantage that the file is self contained,
      while it has the equally obvious disadvantage of the file being
      rather big.</para>

    <para>There are two places from which you may generate a
      <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file, namely directly from
      <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Export...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, 
      or along with HTML pages (see <xref linkend="chp-generating-html"/>). Creating a
      <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file during HTML export will create an
      external <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file.</para>

    <para>External <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> files will search for images in
      one of two ways. First it will try to look for the images next to the
      <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file, and if not found, it will search for them
      at the URL specified when the <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file was
      created. Notice the later is only possible for
      <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> files created during HTML export.</para>
    
    <sect1 id="chp-exportDialog">
      <title>Export Dialog</title>
      <para>This section will tell you about the export dialog which you
        get to from <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu>
	<guimenuitem>Export...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>

      <para>The most important part of this dialog is specifying whether
        the <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file should be internal or external
        (see description above). You have the following three
        options:
      
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem><para>Include in <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file - this
              will be an internal file</para></listitem>
          <listitem><para>Manual copy next to .kim file - Here you must
              copy the images yourself next to the .kim file</para></listitem>
          <listitem><para>Automatically copy next to .kim file - here
              &kphotoalbum; will copy the images for you.</para></listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </para>
      
      <para>Between you and me, <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> files are really
        just zip files. Normally it is not worth bothering compressing the
        files because images normally are compressed JPEG already, and the
        XML file itself are really tiny. If you really want to squish out
        the last few bytes, you may still do so, by checking
        <guilabel>Compress Export File</guilabel></para>

      <para>The final option on the page are <guilabel>Limit maximum image
          dimension</guilabel>. When sending some images to some friends,
        you may not want to send images in full size, as the
        <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file might be huge. For this, you may
        specify that the maximum dimension of images should be say maximum 800
        pixels in each direction.</para>
    </sect1>




    
<sect1 id="chp-importDialog">
  <title>Import Dialog</title>
<para>When you select a <literal role="extension">.kim</literal> file from a web
    browser, or choose
<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Import...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, 
&kphotoalbum; will import the database exported with the functionality described in <xref
linkend="chp-importExport"/>.</para>

<para>The import wizard consist of four steps. First you must specify which
images you want to import. Next you must specify in which directory to put
the imported images.</para>

<para>Chances are that you call the people category
<emphasis>personen</emphasis> (if you are German), while I in Danish might
call this category <emphasis>personer</emphasis>. In the third step of the
import dialog, you must specify which category from the import file to
import, plus which categories in your database they match.</para>

<para>I might call myself in my databases for <emphasis>me</emphasis>,
while in your database I'm called Jesper K. Pedersen. Step four let you set
up matching for each of the imported categories. This can be see in <xref linkend="fig-import-dialog"/>.</para>

<figure id="fig-import-dialog">
<title>Matching People in the Import Dialog </title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="import-dialog.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>

<para>In the screen shot you may see that Donna is the same in both the
.kim file and in my database - the name is shown in black to indicate a
perfect match in the database. The other three names was not found in the
database, though both Jesper and Anne Helene was found matching as
substring, so these are suggested. Finally in my database I didn't have
Spiff (or I might have named it quite differently), so &kphotoalbum; simply
suggest Spiff for the import name.</para>

</sect1>
  </chapter>


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