# The menus

## The File menu

The ability to save album project settings saves a lot of time keeping your albums updated when new images arrive. Simply start JAlbum and reload the settings for a previously created album.

- New project -Clear current settings and load default settings
- Open project... -Open a previously saved JAlbum project
- Recent projects -Open a recent JAlbum project from this sub menu
- Save project -Save current settings for current project.
- Save project as... -Save current settings under given name
- Save project in image directory -Save current settings inside image directory. When you re-visit this directory, you will automatically be prompted for reloading the stored settings
- Save project in album -Same as above but saves current settings inside the output directory instead.
- Save as default -Make the current settings the default settings
- Exit -Leave JAlbum

## The Presets menu

To quickly get the settings right for different types of albums, the presets menu provides the following ready made settings:

- Small size web album from large originals -Make an album with scaled-down images without links to original images. URL encode links.
- High quality web album from large originals -Make an album with scaled-down images with links to original images. URL encode links.
- Web album from small originals - Make an album using the original images only. URL encode links.
- Index with links to CD-ROM originals -Make an album with absolute links to original images (works across devices). Do not URL encode links.
- Local (hard disk) album -Make an album with scaled-down images with links to original images. Do not URL encode links.

URL encoding is the replacement of foreign characters like ÅÄÖ and spaces in links with %<hexcode>. Spaces for example, are replaced with %20 sequences. This is neccesary for such links to work when accessed through a web server. However, the opposite hold true for local (hard disk) browsing. Therefore it is important to get this setting right depending on if you want to access the album locally or through a web server. To make the album work in all environments, skip spaces and foreign characters in file and directory names. Finally, the presets menu provides quick settings for small, medium and large sized index pages.

## The Tools menu

This menu contains general handy tools and is user extensible (therefore not translated). A "Tool" is actually a "BeanShell script" that is put in the tools directory of the JAlbum install directory. Hopefully people will contribute with more tools as time goes by. The Tools are documented in the Tools section of the user manual.

## The Help menu

- Check for updates -Connect to the JAlbum web site and check if there has been updates to JAlbum.
- Help topics -Open the local JAlbum help web
- JAlbum on the Web -Open the official JAlbum web
- System console -Open the "system console" window which allows you to see debug output from skins (System.out.println output) and also to evaluate BeanShell expressions interactively.
- About -Display info about this JAlbum version and the underlying Java engine.