Vintage photographic image sizes

About

Known issues / to-do list

Some of these are imminent fixes, others are just throwing out ideas for future features.

• Non-English characters display fine on the page, but not in the pdf output
• Pagination of the descriptions in the pdf output not working
• Options on the first two sections need to be verified and possibly expanded upon
• Controls for users to easily show/hide items in batches
• Descriptions yet to be written (offers of help welcome!). This could include when and where they were popular, any interesting facts, links to examples etc
• If desired, option to provide alternative output formats (currently A4 only)
• Although a few larger formats are included, any that are larger than A4 (210 x 298 mm) will not currently display properly
• Filtering and display based on type of image e.g. type in 'tintype' and get a list of all sizes that apply to that format
• Include a list of cameras capable of using various sizes
• Introduce the idea of size ranges/limits for formats with variable sizing
• Draw outlines of image sizes (rectangles or circles) within overall card/film boundaries
• Ability to bookmark/share certain views and/or pdf files directly
• All formats are currently displayed in portrait orientation. I would be interested in people's views on this, for example for obvious landscape formats like stereoviews

Browser Compatibility

This tool should work in IE10+, Firefox 3+, Chrome, Safari 3+, Opera.

Credits & Licenses

Created by James Morley PhotosOfThePast based upon the HTML5 JavaScript PDF generation library from @MrRio at Snapshot Media. Full credit is also given above for the invaluable information resources provided by both individuals and institutions.

For feedback, including bug reports, errors or feature and data suggestions, please contact James via Twitter or email.

Licenses

This tool and generated resources

The use of this tool is entirely free and the pdf guides that it produces can be copied, modified and distributed without restriction. All data is provided 'as is' for guidance only and it is recommended that it is checked with original sources and primary material before use.

Underlying jsPDF code (MIT License)

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