Pixaria Software
Continuing the series of articles discussing my plans for upcoming releases of Pixaria, another new feature I will be introducing shortly will be batch downloads from lightboxes. This is an important digital asset management feature for picture researchers looking to quickly download comps or full size images from their lightbox for offline viewing.
The main reason I've held off from offering this feature in the past is due to difficulties reliably generating zip files on a web server but with a new PHP 5 based software library, I am now able to do this safely and offer this feature for the first time.
The batch download function will be configurable via the admin area (in Download Settings) and will make it possible for users to select from all available image sizes and file formats for the images in their lightbox prior to downloading the zip file. Administrators will also be able to define text to be included in a 'read me' file that will be included with the downloaded zip archive.
As with all free downloads from Pixaria, details of the images in each batch download are logged and with the introduction of this new feature, I've taken the opportunity to improve the download log viewing tools in the admin area. The re-design makes it easier to browse downloads by date and by user and adds the ability to generate CSV reports that can be viewed in spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel.
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