Printing photographs (feature request?)

[teddyfresco]

In the past I've used a few galleries, and users often asked me to print their favorite images
So I thought that
1) a way to mark/unmark their favourite images (maybe associated with a community builder add-on ) would be great for users, I've seen it on coppermine and other galleries...
then a gallery should require integration with 3rd party offline printer services, thus would be needed
2) a way to send by mail their printing preferences to site owner, in order to allow him to print the full-resolution version
for bigger sites, I agree that should be related with payments systems...
Jan, what do you think about it?

[Jan]

Hi, I have no idea what to do with the image... You can send the image into the PDF? but I think it doesn't make sense... So what is the printing format??

[teddyfresco]

It seems I have not been very clear
let's try again:
take a look at zoom media gallery (an old component for Joomla 1.0), you can find a description here:
http://www.webxsolution.com/zoom-media-gallery-zmg.html
one of the features is
"Users/ visitors can add media to their own session-bound lightbox and download them all at once as a ZIP file when their done browsing your gallery"
the same could be done by visitors in order to send reference of photos to gallery owner, in order to let him print and send them back phisically printed.
If phoca gallery owners have many visitors, they could sell lots of PHISICAL print of photos to unknwon visitors, so a payment interface would be required....
is it clearer now? tell me and I'll do the possible
thanks for your attention

[Jan]

Yes, but the problem is my time, no time for such solution yet

[teddyfresco]

No problem, didn't want to ask it for tomorrow!
just to verify if this feature would be interesting...

[teddyfresco]

In the meantime I found out that zommgallery is still being developed for J1.5
take a look at this page
http://joomla.vargas.co.cr/component/zoom/?catid=9
and try to think about a printing request process...
1 people add photos to lightbox
2 they go to lightbox and review pictures inserted
3 they push the button "send details to get you photos printed"
4 they insert their data and pay...
what do you think?
maybe relevant part of zoomgallery could be adapted for phoca...
anyway, just suggestions!
keep up the good work!

[Jan]

maybe relevant part of zoomgallery could be adapted for phoca

... this is the worst and most difficult work... transform some extensions into some other, because I don't know zoomgallery, so no idea how to transform it... but I can take some ideas here. thank you for the links...

Jan