426

(16 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

It looks like the folder name on your server is still 'JHBsocBer20'.
If you are changing all path references to lowercase, then you'll need to change this folder name to 'jhbsocber20', too
Everything else looks to be in place and I don't think you should be having any issues specifically because of Blue Host.
Hopefully, once you rename your gallery folder to lowercase, your gallery should display as expected.

427

(16 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I guess caps DO matter.

Yes. Most web servers are case-sensitive so 'JHBsocBer20' (for example) is different to 'jhbsocber20'.
In your http://davebreen.com/JHBsocBer20.html page, you have the following line in your gallery's embedding code:

<script src="jhbsocber20/jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>

Therefore, the browser is trying to load the 'juicebox.js' file from this location: http://davebreen.com/jhbsocber20/jbcore/juicebox.js
... but the file is not there.
The line of code should be:

<script src="JHBsocBer20/jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>

Also, your baseUrl entry should be:

baseURL: "JHBsocBer20/",

I hope this helps and points you in the right direction.

428

(7 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Thank you for the links to your galleries.

I see that you are using a custom PHP file (named 'config.php')  to dynamically generate your gallery's XML data.
The problem lies somewhere within this file (which is not part of the Juicebox package).
There is something within this file that is not compatible with PHP 7.2 onwards.

Unfortunately, I do not have access to your 'config.php' file to inspect its code but opening it directly in a browser reveals the following warning:

Warning:  count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in config.php on line 10

Your use of the PHP count() function (whatever it may be) on line 10 is listed in the 'Backward incompatible changes' on the 'Migrating from PHP 7.1.x to PHP 7.2.x' support page here.

An E_WARNING will now be emitted when attempting to count() non-countable types (this includes the sizeof() alias function).

In order for your 'config.php' file to be compatible with PHP 7.2 onwards, you'll need to find a new PHP method to count whatever it is that you are counting.

I hope this points you in the right direction.
If you continue to experience difficulties, then please zip and upload your 'config.php' file somewhere (and provide a download link) so that I can inspect the code and hopefully help further.
Thank you.

429

(16 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I expect that the problem is likely to be a path issue (a file missing or in the wrong place on your web server).
Please check that all your gallery files have been uploaded successfully to your web server and ensure that the paths in the gallery's embedding code are correct.
If you continue to experience difficulties, then please post back with a link to your gallery's web page so that I can see the problem for myself and help further.
Once I'm able to see the problem live on your web server, I should hopefully be able to determine the exact cause of the problem and propose a solution.
Thank you.

430

(1 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Yes. Please see the following link for details: Using an External jbcore Folder

Essentially, you can upload a single instance of the 'jbcore' folder to anywhere you like on your web server and then load the 'juicebox.js' file from within this folder at the start of each gallery's embedding code. (Details are in the link above.)

This has the added advantage of allowing you to upgrade all your galleries at once (when new versions of Juicebox are released) by just replacing a single 'jbcore' folder.

431

(7 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

That's very strange...

With the exception of the Download Button (showDownloadButton="TRUE") and Password Protection (usePassword="TRUE"), Juicebox-Pro does not need or use PHP at all.

I have just uploaded two test galleries to my own web space (one with both the Download Button and Password Protection and one with neither) and they both run fine under PHP 7.2.33, 7.3.22 and PHP 7.4.10.

I think there must be something else going on when you switch PHP versions as PHP is not required for a gallery's configuration file to be found.

If possible, please post back with a link to the gallery in question (under PHP 7.2, PHP 7.3 or PHP 7.4) so that I can see the problem for myself and investigate further.

Thank you.

432

(6 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

You're welcome!

433

(6 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I see your two images now display correctly.
I'm not sure what the problem was but you certainly seem to have resolved it. Thank you for posting back to let me know.
I'll mark this thread as SOLVED but please post back if you see any further odd behavior. Thank you.

434

(6 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I don't know what is causing your problem but I do not think that it is a coincidence that the two images that do not display have the keyword "hidden" in their titles.
I have tried setting flickrShowTitle="FALSE" and flickrShowDescription="FALSE" to no avail.
I'd try actually changing the titles of these images to remove the word "hidden" (at least temporarily, for testing purposes) to see if this is, indeed, the cause of your problem.
If this does resolve your problem, then maybe you could use a term other than "hidden" (perhaps something like "secret" instead).

I'll try to figure out exactly what is causing this problem (whether it is a Flickr or Juicebox issue) to see if it can be resolved without changing your image titles.
I'll post back here once I've had a chance to investigate further.

Incidentally, I've just created a test Juicebox gallery using local images with the word "hidden" in their titles and captions and the gallery displays all images so, at the moment, it does not look like a Juicebox issue (at least not with local images).

I've also just added the word "hidden" to one of my own Flickr images (in the title and description) and a new Juicebox test gallery displays this image without any problem.

Very strange...
I'd certainly try removing all instances of "hidden" from your own images and, failing that, try reuploading them to Flick (as additional images and/or replacing the current images) to see if this helps.

I'll take another look at this later on when I have more time.
I hope you get on OK in the meantime. Please keep me posted with any updates on your troubleshooting. Thank you.

435

(496 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

@franklomax

It has, indeed, been a while since the last release but please let me reassure you that Juicebox is still actively being developed and supported.
The next version will likely be a bug-fix version, rather than introducing new features. Work has started on the next version but progress is rather slow (and I do not know when it will be released).
However, I hope to see a new release soon, just as much as you do!

436

(2 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

I understand your concerns (I truly have the same concerns) but, unfortunately, I have no more insight into the future of AIR than you do and, at this moment in time, I genuinely have no news on the future of JuiceboxBuilder.
All I know is that Juicebox itself is still alive and that work has started on the next version (which will likely be a bugfix release).
I really do not know any more than that. I'm sure that the developers are aware of the AIR issues and all we can do, myself included, is hope that JuiceboxBuilder can live on in some form or other beyond the Harman procurement of AIR.
I wish I had more information (good or bad) to give you but I'm as much in the dark as you are just now.

It should be noted that there are alternative ways of creating Juicebox galleries that do not rely on JuiceboxBuilder and AIR. I realise that these methods may not be suitable for all users (and it is certainly a less than ideal scenario) but the Lightroom plugin at least provides Lightroom users with a longer-term solution (with the Pro version of the plugin featuring full control over all Pro configuration options just like JuiceboxBuilder-Pro).

I'm sorry that I do not have any more information at this time but I'll be sure to post back here if I hear anything relevant to this matter.
Thank you for your concern and continued support of Juicebox.

No, sorry.
There is currently no way to make local previewing of Juicebox galleries possible in browsers which use the Chromium web engine (Chrome, Edge, Opera).
Local previewing is currently possible only in Firefox and Safari (instructions in this forum post).
I understand that it is not an ideal scenario but I hope that using a browser that is not your system's default browser is not too much on an inconvenience.

First of all I dont understand why I had
juicebox lite in there, since I bought Pro and used that folder?

If you were using Juicebox-Lite, then it could have been due to a WP-Juicebox upgrade.
WP-Juicebox comes bundled with Juicebox-Lite and if you upgrade WP-Juicebox, your Pro 'jbcore' folder will be overwritten with the Lite version.
Reinstating your Pro files is a simple task of uploading your Pro 'jbcore' folder (from your Juicebox-Pro zip file) to your 'wp-juicebox' directory (which should take less than a minute of your time). (You could also just remove the Lite 'jbcore' folder from the WP-Juicebox package before upgrading to prevent your Pro 'jbcore' folder from being overwritten.)

See screen shots to puzzle out why stuff does not seem to conform to all the directions.

The screenshot of your gallery does seem to conform to the screenshot of your gallery settings window. (The screenshot of your gallery windows shows maxThumbRows="1" and maxThumbColumns="6" and this is displayed in the screenshot of your gallery.)

Even when I exchange "6" and "1", nothing changes.  I delete cache.

Setting maxThumbRows="6" and maxThumbColumns="1" will definitely make a difference.

If it does not seem to make a difference for yourself, then the problem is almost certainly a caching issue.
After making changes on an 'Edit Gallery' page, make sure that you click the 'Save' button at the bottom of the page and if you do not see the changes you expect to see, make sure that you are 100% certain that you have completely cleared your browser's cache before reloading your gallery's web page. (Sometimes refreshing the page with F5 or even Ctrl+F5 is not enough.)

I've just double-checked all this by creating a sample gallery in WP-Juicebox v1.5.1.2 (using Juicebox-Pro v1.5.1) using maxThumbRows="6", maxThumbColumns="1" and thumbsPosition="LEFT". The gallery displayed as expected. I then edited the gallery (on the 'Manage Galleries' page and swapped the '1' and the '6'. Again, the gallery displayed as expected (with the rows and columns swapped).

If clearing your browser's cache does not help, then maybe the issue is with server-side caching. Your web host could perhaps have server-side caching enabled on your hosting account and, even though files have changed, your web server could still be serving older versions of these files for a certain period of time.
Please check in with your web host and ask if they have server-side caching enabled on your hosting account and, if so, ask if they would be willing to remove it.
Caching can certainly be useful but it can also sometimes be a hindrance to development.

Why does trhge attachment say
" 115.55 kb, file has never been downloaded"

If you click on the attachment link, the image will be displayed. Below the image, you'll see a download link. Each time the image is downloaded via this link, the download counter is incremented by one. (Most people will be content with viewing the image in place and will not download it.)

Here are two things to try:

(1) Make sure that your WP-Juicebox installation is using Juicebox-Pro (and not Juicebox-Lite which it comes bundled with). Juicebox-Pro configuration options such as galleryTitlePosition are not supported by Juicebox-Lite. You can check which version of Juicebox (Lite vs Pro) your WP-Juicebox installation uses by looking at the "WP-Juicebox" menu label in the WordPress dashboard. It'll read either "WP-Juicebox (Lite)" or "WP-Juicebox (Pro)" (as long as you're using the latest version of WP-Juicebox (v1.5.1.2). Also, if you are using Juicebox-Lite, then your gallery will have a Juicebox logo in the lower right corner.
If you are using Juicebox-Lite, then in order to use Juicebox-Pro configuration options, you'll need to upgrade your WP-Juicebox installation to use Juicebox-Pro by following the Upgrading to Juicebox-Pro instructions here.

(2) After changing your gallery settings, try completely clearing your browser's cache before reloading your gallery's web page to ensure that your browser is not still using older cached versions of your gallery files.

Incidentally, the link you posted previously (https://www.stevezavodny.com/blog/galle … index.html) shows a gallery with no gallery title, no captions and a single column of thumbnails to the left of the main image (it looks like what you are aiming for) so, if you do not see this yourself, then the problem is likely a browser caching issue and clearing your browser's cache (or using a different browser) should show you the gallery as you expect it to be displayed.

... I never see the familiar juicebox editing interface.

WP-Juicebox has individual interface controls for Lite options only.
Pro options must be entered in the 'Pro Options' text area of the gallery settings window, one per line, such as:

expandInNewPage="TRUE"
showImageOverlay="ALWAYS"

This has always been the case with WP-Juicebox (and setting Pro Options in a WP-Juicebox gallery is noted in the WP-Juicebox support page here).

You will find the 'Pro Options' text area in the gallery settings window when you first create a gallery.
You can access the gallery settings window for a pre-existing gallery by going to 'WP-Juicebox -> Manage Galleries' (from the WordPress Dashboard side menu) and clicking 'Edit' next to the gallery that you'd like to modify.

...what if I wanted to move the thumbnails to the left, vertical,
or change their size?

Try adding something like the following to a gallery's 'Pro Options' text area, changing the values as necessary:

thumbWidth="75"
thumbHeight="75"
thumbsPosition="LEFT"
maxThumbRows="10"
maxThumbColumbs="3"

In the screen shot, how do I get the unwanted labels
off the pictures off?

The text in the top-left is the gallery title. To remove the gallery title, set  the following in the gallery's 'Pro Options' text area:

galleryTitlePosition="NONE"

The text near the bottom of the image is the caption area.
By default, WP-Juicebox uses the image filename (without the extension) as the image title. ("b-forgiving-1" in your screenshot.)
You can remove this by deselecting the 'Display Image Titles' checkbox (just above the 'Pro Options' text area).
You can remove the image number ("6/6" in your screenshot) by setting the following in the 'Pro Options' text area:

showImageNumber="FALSE"

You can remove the entire caption area (without needing to remove the image title and image number separately) by setting the following in the 'Pro Options' text area:

captionPosition="NONE"

For reference, a list of all Pro Options can be found here.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for rapid response.

You're welcome!

BTW, I'm getting a little worried about the lack of any updates to Juicebox since 2017.

Thank you for your continued support of Juicebox-Pro.
It has, indeed, been a while since the last release but please let me reassure you that Juicebox is still actively being developed and supported.
The next version will likely be a bug-fix release, rather than introducing new features. Work has started on the next version but progress is rather slow.
Unfortunately, I do not know when the next version will be released (there is no set release schedule) so any estimate I give you could turn out to be wholly inaccurate.
I hope this at least helps to reassure you that Juicebox is still alive and well!

The 'Home' icon is the Back Button, displayed when backButtonPosition is set to either TOP or OVERLAY (and backButtonUseIcon is set to TRUE).

You can have the Back Button redirect to any web page you like by setting backButtonUrl (in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> Back Button' section).
The value for backButtonURL can be a relative path (relative to the web page containing the gallery's embedding code) or an absolute path (starting with either http:// or https://), for example:

backButtonUrl="http://www.example.com/index.html"

For reference, a list of all Back Button options can be found here.

I hope this helps.

Editing a gallery on the 'WP-Juicebox -> Manage Galleries' page will allow you to change the gallery's configuration options.

When using the WordPress Media Library as a source of images for your gallery, all image handling (including the order of the images) is done using core WordPress functionality.

When first uploading a batch of images for a gallery, the initial image order will be the order in which the images finish uploading.

If you want to reorder images in a gallery after the gallery has been created...

(1) Edit the post containing the gallery.

(2) Add a Gutenberg 'Gallery' block to the post. (This is just a temporary method of accessing the images attached to the post.)

(3) Click the 'Media Library' button (within the 'Gallery' block) to access the media window.

(4) Make sure that 'Create gallery' is the selected option (in the left side menu of the media window).

(5) Make sure that 'Media Library' is the selected tab (at the top of the media window).

(6) In the 'Filter media' drop-down menu, select 'Uploaded to this post'. All images attached to the post will be displayed as thumbnails.

(7) Drag and drop the thumbnails into the order that you'd like them to be displayed in the gallery.

(8) Close the media window (via the cross at the top right).

(9) Remove the 'Gallery' block from the post. (It is no longer required.)

There is no need to re-publish the post. The images will have been reordered internally by WordPress as soon as the Drag and drop action is finished.

If the images look to be in the correct order but are not, then just drag and drop an image out of place and then drag and drop it back into place. This will force WordPress to reorder the images internally.

Anyway, I wonder how long I'll be able to use "WP Classic" and wouldn't I just
wind up right here again?

Yes, I agree. It would be better to get to grips with WordPress 5 and new Gutenberg Editor as this seems to be the way forward and WordPress are not going to drop the Gutenberg Editor any time soon.

Your screenshot shows that WP-Juicebox is installed and active and that you've managed to add a Juicebox gallery to your post.
All you need to do now is attach images to your post (using core WordPress functionality) and Juicebox will automatically display them in the gallery.

(1) Click the 'Add Block' button (the '+' in a circle near top-left in your screenshot) to add a new Gutenberg block to your page or post.
(2) Select a 'Gallery' block. (You'll find it in the 'Media' section.)
(3) Click the 'Media Library' button within the 'Gallery' block.
(4) Drag and drop the images that you want to attach to your page or post (i.e. the images that you would like to be displayed in your WP-Juicebox gallery) from your hard drive into the media window.
(5) Wait until the images have finished uploading.
(6) Reorder the images (if necessary) by going to the 'Create Gallery -> Media Library' section (within the media window), selecting 'Uploaded to this post' from the drop-down menu and then dragging and dropping the thumbnails into the order you require.
(7) Close the media window via the cross at the top right. (Do not click the 'Create a new gallery' as this will create a native WordPress gallery in addition to your WP-Juicebox gallery.)
(8) You can now safely remove the 'Gallery' block from the post. (Using a 'Gallery' block is just a convenient method of attaching images to a post.)

WordPress does not make it easy to attach images to a post (or to see images which are attached to a post) but the above method works.

If you find you still have trouble attaching images to a post, then there are a couple of alternatives.

(1) You could use a Flickr account as the source of images for your Juicebox gallery. WordPress would then have no part in the image management of your gallery.

(2) You could choose not to use WP-Juicebox at all and, instead, create a Juicebox gallery on your computer (with JuiceboxBuilder) and manually embed the gallery into your WordPress post using the baseUrl method documented here. Here is an example of how you could do this:

Step #1
Create your gallery with JuiceboxBuilder and save it to a new empty folder named "my_gallery_folder".

Step#2
Upload the entire gallery folder (not just the contents) to the root directory of your web server (using an FTP program such as Filezilla).

Step #3
Create a new 'Custom HTML' Gutenberg block (in the 'Formatting' section) and paste the following embedding code (changing the gallery dimensions and background color if you like):

<!--START JUICEBOX EMBED-->
<script src="/my_gallery_folder/jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>
<script>
    new juicebox({
        baseUrl: "/my_gallery_folder/",
        containerId: "juicebox-container",
        galleryWidth: "100%",
        galleryHeight: "600",
        backgroundColor: "#222222"
    });
</script>
<div id="juicebox-container"></div>
<!--END JUICEBOX EMBED-->

The leading slashes in the paths above denote your root directory so the code above will work without modification as long as your gallery folder is named "my_gallery_folder" and has been uploaded to your root directory.

Incidentally, you can upload your gallery folder to anywhere on your web server as long as the two paths within the baseUrl embedding code (the path to the 'juicebox.js' file and the baseUrl entry itself, pointing towards the gallery folder) are correct.

You can see there is nothing on the left to navigate to juicebox plug in.

You'll only see the 'WP-Juicebox -> Manage Galleries' link (shown in my screenshot in a post above) on your WordPress dashboard page (not on an 'edit a post' page such as the one shown in your most recent screenshot).
Just click the 'W' icon (the one in the circle at the top-left of your screenshot) to see the WordPress dashboard menu ath teh left of your screen. The WP-Juicebox link will be near the bottom of the list. (This will not help you to attach images to a post, though... it will only give you access to the 'Manage Galleries' page where you can edit galleries (to change configuration options) or delete galleries.)

You cannot even see there are photos associated with this editing page, yet when published, there actually IS a photo page.

That's down to the way WordPress works. The only way I've found to see the images attached to a post (whilst creating or editing a post) is to create a 'Gallery' block, check the images in the media window (accessed via the 'Gallery' block') and then remove the 'Gallery' block afterwards.
Otherwise, you can see which images are attached to which posts in the 'Media -> Library' itself (accessed via the WordPress dashboard).

I hope my notes above help somewhat.

445

(3 replies, posted in Juicebox-Lite Support)

You're welcome!
I hope you get on OK.

446

(3 replies, posted in Juicebox-Lite Support)

This seems like a Drupal-specific gallery structure type of issue (i.e. a problem building the gallery within Drupal rather than a problem with Juicebox itself).

I'm not sure if you are using the Juicebox Module for Drupal but it sounds like you might be.
I don't know you are building your Juicebox gallery or how you'd get the paths of the images from your Lightbox Gallery into your Juicebox gallery's 'config.xml' file.

As the Juicebox Module for Drupal is an unofficial plugin which was not written by ourselves, I would recommend that you post your query in the Drupal forum where the author of the module (Ryan Jacobs) should hopefully be able to help you further.
He is active and very helpful in the Drupal forum and has a much better knowledge that I have of both the module and Drupal.

An alternative to using the module would be to create a gallery first on your computer using JuiceboxBuilder-Lite and then embed the gallery into your Drupal page using the baseUrl method of embedding following the Embedding in a Drupal Site instructions.
In doing so, you would be able to keep each gallery in its own self-contained folder (helping to keep things organized on your web server).

Here's an example of how to embed a gallery (created with JuiceboxBuilder-Liteon your computer) manually into a Drupal page.

Step #1
Create your gallery with JuiceboxBuilder-Lite and save it to a new empty folder named "my_gallery_folder".

Step#2
Upload the entire gallery folder (not just the contents) to the root directory of your web server (using an FTP program such as Filezilla).

Step #3
Create a new Article, select 'Full HTML' from the 'Text Format' drop-down menu and paste the following embedding code (changing the gallery dimensions and background color if you like):

<!--START JUICEBOX EMBED-->
<script src="/my_gallery_folder/jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>
<script>
    new juicebox({
        baseUrl: "/my_gallery_folder/",
        containerId: "juicebox-container",
        galleryWidth: "100%",
        galleryHeight: "600",
        backgroundColor: "#222222"
    });
</script>
<div id="juicebox-container"></div>
<!--END JUICEBOX EMBED-->

The leading slashes in the paths above denote your root directory so the code above will work without modification as long as your gallery folder is named "my_gallery_folder" and has been uploaded to your root directory.

Incidentally, you can upload your gallery folder to anywhere on your web server as long as the two paths within the embedding code (the path to the 'juicebox.js' file and the baseUrl entry itself, pointing towards the gallery folder) are correct.

I hope this helps (or at least points you in the right direction).

and why on earth is word press so different now?

That's something that you'd need to ask in the WordPress forum. The Gutenberg Editor is certainly a complete departure from the old familiar Classic Editor.

The instructions on the WP-Juicebox support page are quite accurate and if you don't see any of the buttons mentioned in the instructions, then your WordPress installation may be the root of the problem. Perhaps you have a third-party plugin which is either changing core WordPress functionality or interfering with WP-Juicebox (or both).

Maybe the best way to proceed would be to continue using WordPress 5.4.2 (keeping WordPress up-to-date for security reasons) but revert to the Classic Editor (rather than the Gutenberg Editor).
The Classic Editor is no longer bundled with WordPress but you can download it as a plugin from here.
Once you install and activate the Classic Editor, things should look and function exactly as they did before the Gutenberg editor was introduced.

Also, I'll try to answer some of the queries from your last email in case they help with certain issues.

(5.4 I am betting; it doesnt tell us anywhere what version) .

On your WordPress dashboard page, scroll down and the version number should be displayed in the lower-right corner of the screen.

Close the media window using the cross at the top right (do not click 'Create a new gallery').

There is no cross, see photo.
AGAIN there is nothing on this support page to add a photo. There is on
the preview page, but the photo just disappears.  then I have to go to a "pun page"?
Then that just publishes this post with no photo at all.  etc.
Never seen such a convoluted attachment process that does not even work.

I think we're at cross purposes here...
When I refer to closing the media window, I am referring to WordPress's media window.
However, your response seems to be referring to attaching an image to a post here in the forum (the forum is PunBB).

How on earth are we supposed to remove the block??

I realise that you have discovered how to remove a Gutenberg block but this link might help others with the same problem.

Nope, nothing like this at all anywhere.

The lack of a 'WP-Juicebox' menu link in the left column of the WordPress dashboard suggests that the WP-Juicebox plugin may not be installed and active within your WordPress instalation. (It should be very close to the bottom of the list, just above 'Collapse menu'.)
You should be able to access the 'WP-Juicebox -> Manage Galleries' page as shown in the screenshot attached.

I hope this gives us the traditional at-home editing juicebox interface we are used to
when we build sites here on the computer at home?

It gives the same interface that WP-Juicebox has always had (for many years).

I think reverting to the Classic Editor should help.
WP-Juicebox has not changed much over the years at all.
However, Wordpress has changed significantly.
WP-Juicebox simply displays images attached to a post but attaching images to a post is core WordPress functionality and the method of attaching images to a post will differ depending on what version of WordPress you are using. (Different versions of WordPress are accounted for in the WP-Juicebox instructions.)

I hope that using the Classic editor helps to resolve your problems.

448

(1 replies, posted in Juicebox-Pro Support)

Can JuiceBox be hosted on IIS?

Yes, no problem.
A Juicebox gallery has very few server requirements. Please see here for details.

After reviewing JuiceboxBuilder, it does not appear there is a database requirement?

That is correct. Juicebox does not require or use a database at all.

449

(3 replies, posted in Juicebox-Lite Support)

You're welcome!
I'm sorry it's not the answer you were hoping for but, as you say, at least you now know what Juicebox can and cannot do.

450

(3 replies, posted in Juicebox-Lite Support)

Hi! Thank you for your interest in Juicebox!
I hope my notes below help to answer your queries (even if they may not be the answers you were hoping for).

1. Is there a setting to do that automatically rather than having to manually set the width and height of the thumbnails?

No. You must set the thumbWidth and thumbHeight manually (on the 'Images' tab of JuiceboxBuilder-Pro).

2. What do I do if the images in a particular gallery all have different aspect ratios? How do I make the thumbnails work in a manner that makes all of them look appropriate and not crop out image content?

With Juicebox-Pro, you can set the thumbnail dimensions (which is not possible with Juicebox-Lite) but all thumbnails will share the same dimensions. This cannot be changed. If images do not share a similar aspect ratio to the thumbnail dimensions, then the images will be resized and center-cropped to fill the thumbnail dimensions.

You could create your own set of thumbnails in an imaging program such as Adobe Photoshop and then swap them for the thumbnails created by JuiceboxBuilder-Pro (if you have a particular set of images which would not suit a center-crop) but this would be a lot of extra work (and all thumbnails in the gallery would still share the same dimensions).

If your gallery uses thumbnails primarily as a navigational aid (and center-cropping would be an issue), then you could choose to not actually show the thumbnails and instead just use thumb dots as shown in this demo gallery.