Motivation
I wanted to create a fotobook of a power point presentation with 84 pages but the import of https://www.fotoparadies.de/ would create a random order of pages then as it did not follow the image names nor the creation date of the image.
This is the files after the export in PP:
Folie1.jpeg
Folie2.jpeg
...
FolieN.jpeg
However, I noticed that this platform uses the EXIF creation date field to order pictures.
My solution
My hack to this was to add an exif header and assign a increasing creation date basically.
Downloaded https://exiftool.org/ and stored it as exif.exe in the same folder as the images.
On this platform https://www.online-python.com/ I've created this script:
for x in range(1,60):
print(".\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal=\"2012:07:01 07:02:" + format(x, '02d') + "\" .\Folie" + str(x) + ".JPG")
for x in range(1,60):
print(".\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal=\"2012:07:01 07:03:" + format(x, '02d') + "\" .\Folie" + str(x+59) + ".JPG")
Which then prints:
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:01" .\Folie1.JPG
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:02" .\Folie2.JPG
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:03" .\Folie3.JPG
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:04" .\Folie4.JPG
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:05" .\Folie5.JPG
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:06" .\Folie6.JPG
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:07" .\Folie7.JPG
.\exif.exe -datetimeoriginal="2012:07:01 07:02:08" .\Folie8.JPG
...
Then I pasted this commands into a powershell and it updated all the files with an increasing timestam in the exif field. You might have to add a exif tag first.
For creating the field I originally used https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/jhead/:
jhead -mkexif *.JPG
So once the images had a exif creation date relative to the file number I was able to import the images into a photobook.
I share here my solution as it took me 2 hours to figure this out. I hope this helps you guys!
If you have a better solution, please feel free to answer.
