cd2browse - Version 1.03

cd2browse allows you to easily create browseable HTML-based menus from ordinary directory structures, and publish these menus on CD or DVD. cd2browse employs Javascript tree menus (or, optionally, a web-inspired self-expanding menu structure) to provide a clean, easily navigated view of your files.

When might you use cd2browse? 

Imagine you have a collection of files of different types (Word, Excel, JPEG, HTML, PDF) which you would like to organize and publish on a single CD or DVD in a way that allows a user to easily and coherently browse through the files. Manually creating an HTML index would take quite a bit of time; cd2browse automates and simplifies the task of organizing and linking your files into a logical whole.

Core features:

cd2browse:

• analyses the file tree, extracts valuable information out of the files, such as title, size, age, and number of pages and creates a browsable html index out of it. In other words after cd2browse has finished, you have a browasable view of the scanned directory structure
• creates thumbnails of images in the file tree - this can be switched off during creation also the size of the thumbnails can be defined
• creates previews of all images in the scanned file tree and make them browsable as a gallery the size can be defined
  
• provides a offline java script based search engine which allows a full text search. Indexed files are: pdf, word , excel, powerpoint and html documents
• does not affect the file tree itself. The resulting html files are outside the original file tree - so the file tree is not messed up with index or preview files.
• is customizable according to your needs. The look and feel can be changed using templates.
• cd2browse is open source, structured, documented an licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.
• Using the menu needs no software installation, you just need a modern browser which is able to run java script. The menus are built in pure html and java script.
• burning the menu and files on cd or dvd will force the cd to auto-start  if the disc is inserted into the drive (Windows)

The target use for cd2browse is:

Technical documentation on CD or DVD
Simple web publishing for different kind of documents
Program or document collections for CD or DVD
Browsable MP3 Collections on CD / DVD
Publishing of images on CD / DVD

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• since 1.02 easy to install on Windows
  
• customizable
  
• open source
• runs on nearly all platforms
• no other software necessary on runtime
• no installation necessary on runtime
• no gimmicks on runtime - very fast
• GUI and command line user interfaces available since 1.02
• offline java script search engine included to search through the resulting menus
  

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• depending on the package, additional software is necessary on create time
• menu create speed is average