htmTools 0.1.1		09/2010 	G.P.L.
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changes text of multiple files in a given folder, 
also serves as a simple front-end for useful tools, 
like tidy, jpegtran, imagemagick, ffmpeg ...
and the ones you like.


files:

htmtools[.exe]	binary
settings.xml	example settings file

readme.txt	this file
licence.txt	g.p.l.
/src		source code
/tools		external tools (win32 only)


usage:

linux: 	./htmtools (wxWidgets-2.8 runtime libraries have to be installed)
win32: 	htmTools.exe 


on the first run a settings file (settings.xml) will be created in ~./htmTools
[win32: settings.xml will be created in the folder of htmTools.exe]
you can copy the example settings.xml to this folder

the example settings.xml file consists of:

ChangeText (internal) - should not be deleted 
HtmlTidy 	http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ 	check html files
JpegTran 	http://www.ijg.org/		cleans jpegs
IM 		http://www.imagemagick.org/	several image operations
FFMpeg		http://www.ffmpeg.org/		transcoding of video streams

to use the tools their packages have to be installed (e.g. tidy, libjpeg-progs, imagemagick, ffmpeg),
for win32, tidy and jpegtran are shipped, because they are small, download imagemagick
from http://www.imagemagick.org/ and set the paths in "Settings", ffmpeg is included in IM,
of course itīs possible to use as many tools as you like, the ones above are just an example.
hint: be careful with your input files, some tools will overwrite them.

for win32 additonal tools are shipped:

Strip		http://www.mingw.org/			reduces executable size by removing debug information
Upx		http://upx.sourceforge.net/		reduces executable size by compressing
OggDec		http://www.xiph.org/			converts .ogg -> .wav
Volumax		http://www.rarewares.org/others.php	normalizes .wav
Lame		http://lame.sourceforge.net/		converts .wav -> .mp3


compiling:

should be easily compiled using an ide that includes wxwidgets library (e.g. code::blocks, wxDev-C++)

there are makefiles provided for linux, try make (you will need libwxgtk2.8-dev libraries)
before you type make install, check if the paths in the makefile fit your needs


credits:

thanks for all these nice tools  
and wxWidgets - great framework
tool icon from Andy (http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67)


comments:

feel free to write your comments/suggestions to pierrot <idf.dresden@gmx.net>






  