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January 26th, 2017, 08:59 AM
Would like to develop a script or a program, or to have someone help develop a script that allows nautilus or another file browser in Ubuntu to create thumbnails for a folder of single vcf files into images of business cards - showing the email, the name, the phone, the address, the company name the title and the photograph of each vcf file in Nautilus or another file browser.
microsoft outlook seemed to be the only product that allowed for contacts to be displayed as business cards with a photo and all the information layed out on the screen and you could select the number of columns by zooming out and more photos would be shown. by clicking on it or right clicking you could edit them, email them call them, etc... you could also edit the display by specifying that you want the picture to be shown or not shown and to choose to display the name only or to select the fields you wanted to see on the card thus making the card bigger or smaller on the display based on the information in it.
https://scontent.fewr1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16114961_716440895186862_5227249748106854816_n.jpg ?oh=676cf69b2d80ef09674c781f4e650f99&oe=5910889A
This is the original view in Microsoft Outlook - you can change zoom and you could see more contacts and more columns on the same page - shows the photo and all the information
https://scontent.fewr1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16300471_716440801853538_2432718145022217327_o.jpg ?oh=d8343271cee359bcab35bc1a2e820501&oe=594980A2
This is a view created in nautilus how vcf files can be displayed as business card view in nautilus or another file browser in Ubuntu. Would be great to see the VCF files as contacts - and to be able to edit them right here and eventually develop some way to call or email, skype them, open their facebook page or other web sites right from here. and to change the way these thumbnails are created and displayed.
Also would be good to develop a similar type of a solution in thunderbird where you can have a business card view the same way you would have in outlook. (
- being able to display the vcf cards in ubuntu file browsers as images of the cards (thumbnails),
- the ability to click on them and to select which fields are being shown in the thumbnail (or more likely a script to change all the thumbnails in a folder and you can select how the thumbnails are to be created and which field are to be displays,
- the ability to edit these cards through a nice interface, although this is not nessesary at first as these are just text files and can be edited with an editor
- the ability to show the business card view in Thunderbird and to be able to set the number of columns and the size of the cards to display the same way you can do it in Microsoft Outlook. (this is another task that can be done in Thunderbird just to have another way to view these cards if you wanted to see them in the same business card view in Thunderbird that already does many of the other functions
This ability to see a list of a grid of 30+ cards on each page and to scroll down by page is extremely useful and I would like to contribute to developing this as a free solution for others.
have been through most scripts and ubuntu information and didnt find anything useful yet - there are a couple of scripts one can start with that allow you to work with VCF files in Linux and that allow you to create thumbnails.
There are also a few useful free programs in windows that should be created in linux as well if they dont exist
- split a multi vcf file into single vcf files,
- unite multiple single vcf files or multi vcf files into one large multi vcf file,
- the ability to create thumbnails for all vcf files in a folder that would look like the images above (while allowing you to select which fields to display and which to omit (no web site shown on the thumbnails for example, or no picture shown to make the business cards smaller (you could just rerun the script to change the displayed thumbnails in the folder
- small business cards with the photo, the name, company name, title, email, phone number, web site etc and maybe the ability which fields to display and which not to display.
- ability to edit a vcf file in a nice form fields would be nice but is the last thing to do as you can just edit them as text,
- the ability to drop a photo onto a vcf card file in nautilus for that vcf file to accept that photo as the new photo for the vcf file, or as a second photo if that is possible in vcf files (we already have a written script that allows an image file to be dropped onto a contact in thunderbird and that contact automatically changes to consider the new image as the photo for that contact, and we can post that script here, maybe we can rewrite it to be useful in a file browser such as nautilus or another file browser,
- maybe a way to right click a vcf file and call it through skype, open its web site in the browser or email it using thunderbird.
all of this can be done in a seperate program but its just as easy and probably more useful to do this in nautilus or another file manager, and can be used on the phone eventually as just using folders of images - that you can see combine open up and just store in seperate folders is extremely useful.
You can use existing programs to compare folders between the phone and the computer or between contacts downloaded from gmail, iphone, android blackberry thunderbird outlook etc all as just comparing folders with vcf files to one another.:popcorn:
microsoft outlook seemed to be the only product that allowed for contacts to be displayed as business cards with a photo and all the information layed out on the screen and you could select the number of columns by zooming out and more photos would be shown. by clicking on it or right clicking you could edit them, email them call them, etc... you could also edit the display by specifying that you want the picture to be shown or not shown and to choose to display the name only or to select the fields you wanted to see on the card thus making the card bigger or smaller on the display based on the information in it.
https://scontent.fewr1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16114961_716440895186862_5227249748106854816_n.jpg ?oh=676cf69b2d80ef09674c781f4e650f99&oe=5910889A
This is the original view in Microsoft Outlook - you can change zoom and you could see more contacts and more columns on the same page - shows the photo and all the information
https://scontent.fewr1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16300471_716440801853538_2432718145022217327_o.jpg ?oh=d8343271cee359bcab35bc1a2e820501&oe=594980A2
This is a view created in nautilus how vcf files can be displayed as business card view in nautilus or another file browser in Ubuntu. Would be great to see the VCF files as contacts - and to be able to edit them right here and eventually develop some way to call or email, skype them, open their facebook page or other web sites right from here. and to change the way these thumbnails are created and displayed.
Also would be good to develop a similar type of a solution in thunderbird where you can have a business card view the same way you would have in outlook. (
- being able to display the vcf cards in ubuntu file browsers as images of the cards (thumbnails),
- the ability to click on them and to select which fields are being shown in the thumbnail (or more likely a script to change all the thumbnails in a folder and you can select how the thumbnails are to be created and which field are to be displays,
- the ability to edit these cards through a nice interface, although this is not nessesary at first as these are just text files and can be edited with an editor
- the ability to show the business card view in Thunderbird and to be able to set the number of columns and the size of the cards to display the same way you can do it in Microsoft Outlook. (this is another task that can be done in Thunderbird just to have another way to view these cards if you wanted to see them in the same business card view in Thunderbird that already does many of the other functions
This ability to see a list of a grid of 30+ cards on each page and to scroll down by page is extremely useful and I would like to contribute to developing this as a free solution for others.
have been through most scripts and ubuntu information and didnt find anything useful yet - there are a couple of scripts one can start with that allow you to work with VCF files in Linux and that allow you to create thumbnails.
There are also a few useful free programs in windows that should be created in linux as well if they dont exist
- split a multi vcf file into single vcf files,
- unite multiple single vcf files or multi vcf files into one large multi vcf file,
- the ability to create thumbnails for all vcf files in a folder that would look like the images above (while allowing you to select which fields to display and which to omit (no web site shown on the thumbnails for example, or no picture shown to make the business cards smaller (you could just rerun the script to change the displayed thumbnails in the folder
- small business cards with the photo, the name, company name, title, email, phone number, web site etc and maybe the ability which fields to display and which not to display.
- ability to edit a vcf file in a nice form fields would be nice but is the last thing to do as you can just edit them as text,
- the ability to drop a photo onto a vcf card file in nautilus for that vcf file to accept that photo as the new photo for the vcf file, or as a second photo if that is possible in vcf files (we already have a written script that allows an image file to be dropped onto a contact in thunderbird and that contact automatically changes to consider the new image as the photo for that contact, and we can post that script here, maybe we can rewrite it to be useful in a file browser such as nautilus or another file browser,
- maybe a way to right click a vcf file and call it through skype, open its web site in the browser or email it using thunderbird.
all of this can be done in a seperate program but its just as easy and probably more useful to do this in nautilus or another file manager, and can be used on the phone eventually as just using folders of images - that you can see combine open up and just store in seperate folders is extremely useful.
You can use existing programs to compare folders between the phone and the computer or between contacts downloaded from gmail, iphone, android blackberry thunderbird outlook etc all as just comparing folders with vcf files to one another.:popcorn: