User Guide

Please follow the instructions in the UI. Some of the controls have useful tooltips that show when you mouse over. The date stamping is done on a sample image and the section of the date stamp is shown. Lamps is an example comment used to give an idea of how any comment will be positioned. When you actually date stamp your pictures comments will appear only if you enter them or are pre-filled from Jpeg or Exif comments. You can see the full sample image by clicking on the date stamp section.

Jambula does not overwrite your original files. So you should select a suitable output directory in Step 3 where the date stamped images are saved.

After selecting an output dir, add the jpeg pictures you want to be stamped and click on Stamp.

Each image has a corresponding comment field to enter your comments. The comment fields are pre-filled with Title or Comments added to the picture via Windows Explorer or an photo organizer/editor like Picasa. To get a larger view of your photos for commenting click on any of the image icons to launch a comment view. After adding comments click on Stamp to stamp your pictures and save them to the specified output folder.

You can customize the date stamp using the tabs in the 1st section. Below is a brief information on each tab.

Date Format

You can customize your date format here. A suitable format is pre-filled for your language selected in the Language Tab. You can easily change things like adding removing Week or Month Name, 12 or 24 your time format or excluding time by Clicking on the Easy Formatting button. You can also edit the format directly to change things like the separators between date month and year.

Language

Use this tab to change your language. This will change the date format (Month-Date-Year or Date-Month-Year or Year-Month-Date), Week and Month names and the AM/PM display accordingly.

Font

You can choose the font, size, style and color for the date text here. If you prefer LED style text install the digital-7 font and try it out.

Comment

This tab is to change the style, position and pre-filling of comments. Check the first checkbox if you want to have a different font and text styling for your comments.

Text Outline

A text outline is included by default since it improves the visibility on the date stamp. However you may want to reduce the width or turn it off by un-checking the first check box depending on your language and Text Size.

Background

Use this tab if you want a background color for you date stamp. Check the first checkbox to enable this.

Border

Use this tab if you want a border for you date stamp. Check the first checkbox to enable this.

Date Position

By default the date stamp is at the bottom right of the picture. Use this tab if you want a different position. Normally you can leave the rotation as Auto since most modern cameras include the orientation of the camera when the picture was taken using which the date stamp is appropriately rotated.

Tools Menu

Whenever you stamp pictures your preferences are saved and are used as defaults when you next launch Jambula. You can revert to the default preferences and come back the last stamp configuration using the options in the Tools Menu at top.

Whenever you stamp pictures your preferences are saved and are used as defaults when you next launch Jambula. You can revert to the default preferences and come back the last stamp configuration using the options in the Tools Menu at top.

Use the commands jambula_batch.exe on Windows and jambula_batch.sh on Linux and Mac. For the options file use jambula.properties under the config directory of the installation. The properties corresponding to your customizations are saved under LOCALAPPDATA/jambula (C:\Users\your username\AppData\Local\jambula on windows) or APPDATA/jambula or HOMEDIR/jambula whichever is available.

The languages listed in the Languages Tab are those provided by Java for Date Formatting. If you want to add a new Language not listed you can do so by creating a localeInfo.json under locales/<iso_code>_<country_code>. You need to provide baseLocaleCode to default date formats and week and month names. Please see locales/sampleLocaleInfo.json and locales/ta_IN/localeInfo.json under installation directory for examples.