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+[I] cthumb allows you to create themable web picture albums
+
+[T] Create themable web picture albums, i.e. collections of digital
+[T] pictures, with small thumbnails of your pictures and with captions. In
+[T] addition, it optionally allows you to have several views of the
+[T] collection of pictures. An album is composed of a series of pages, each
+[T] composed of a collection of pictures. For each page (and each picture),
+[T] you can have several annotations per picture. cthumb  will generate
+[T] several versions of the page, for each annotation type.
+
+[U] http://cthumb.sourceforge.net/ project homepage
+
+[A] Carlos Puchol <cpg@users.sourceforge.net>
+[M] Andreas V. 'netrunner' Meier <avmeier@web.de>
+
+[C] extra/multimedia
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] 4.2
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
+
+[D] 662242579 cthumb-4.2.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/cthumb/
+
diff --git a/package/avm/cthumb/png.patch b/package/avm/cthumb/png.patch
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+diff -ruN cthumb-4.2/cthumb.in cthumb-4.2-new/cthumb.in
+--- cthumb-4.2/cthumb.in	2002-08-13 19:24:05.000000000 +0200
++++ cthumb-4.2-new/cthumb.in	2004-04-04 12:59:31.842021168 +0200
+@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@
+     my $pic = shift;
+ 
+     # $pic =~ /^(.*?)(\.gif|\.jpg)?$/;
+-    $pic =~ m#^(.*/)?([^/]+)\.(gif|tif+|jpe?g)$#i;
++    $pic =~ m#^(.*/)?([^/]+)\.(gif|tif+|jpe?g|png)$#i;
+     # use thumb/ subdirectory if it already exists
+     my $base = (defined($1))? $1 : '';
+     if (-w ($base . "thumb")) {
+@@ -742,6 +742,8 @@
+   }
+   for my $cmd ("djpeg", "pngtopnm", "giftopnm", "tifftopnm") {
+     my $pnm = `$cmd "$name" `;
++    if ($pnm eq "") { print "not with $cmd ... "; }
++    else            { print "with $cmd ..."; } ;
+     return $pnm unless $?;
+   }
+   return;
+@@ -1069,14 +1071,14 @@
+                 $pictureGeometry,
+                 $pictureSize,
+                 $pictureTitle,
+-                $pictureStory,
+-                $pictureTimestamp,
+-                $albumURL,
+-                $albumTitle,
+-                $geometryLink,
+-		$themePrefix);
+-        }
+-    }
++	$pictureStory,
++	$pictureTimestamp,
++	$albumURL,
++	$albumTitle,
++	$geometryLink,
++	$themePrefix);
++}
++}
+ }
+ 
+ # This function is responsible for generating html for a single image that
+@@ -1715,7 +1717,7 @@
+ 
+ 	my $pnm = "";
+ 	if (!($pnm = &get_pnm($src))) {
+-            die "Cannot scale image `$dest`.";
++            warn "Cannot scale image `$dest`, cthumb will fail!";
+ 	}
+ 	# make pnmscale shut up (version in redhat 7.2
+ 	# spits out stuff to stderr, even without -verbose, arggh)
+@@ -1730,7 +1732,7 @@
+ 	    close PNMTOTHUMB;
+ 	    print "done.\n";
+ 	} else {
+-            die "Cannot scale image `$dest`.";
++            warn "Cannot scale image `$dest`.";
+ 	}
+     }
+ 
+@@ -1766,6 +1768,17 @@
+ 	}
+     }
+ 
++    if ($picname =~ /\.png$/i) {
++	open FILE, "pngtopnm \"$picname\" | pnmfile |" or
++	    return "";
++	$_ = <FILE>;
++	if (/^stdin:\s+PPM raw, (\d+) by (\d+)/) {
++	    $width = $1; $height = $2;
++	    close FILE;
++	    return "$width" . "x" . "$height";
++	}
++    }
++
+     return "";
+ }
+