The Factory just released a brand new product for the Joomla world which also bring diversify to the RSS Factory Suite which include at this moment the top viewer RSS Factory and RSS Context Factory. The new product is called rss to image Factory and displays images taken from RSS feeds. The module is compatible with rss Factory 1.5.x.

The module is able to display only the feeds containing images or all the feeds. The orientation can be set up vertical or horizontal and there is a minimal required size for search and display images in order not to display images like spacer 1x1 px.

rss to image Factory is also capable of image resizing. The image caption can be choosen from "alt" or "title" attributes or disabled and in case of missing caption the text can be predefined by the admin (ex. "No caption"). Regarding the caption there is an option to set up the lenght (first x characters) and the position (up or above the image). Here the complete list of features at this moment:

• display images taken from RSS Feeds
• takes images from the cache of rss Factory 1.5.x
• is able to display only the feeds containing images or all the feeds
• orientation can be set up vertical or horizontal
• search and display images with a required size (in order not to display images like spacer 1x1 px)
• image resizing
• image caption can be choosen from "alt" or "title" attributes or disabled
• in case of missing caption the text can be predefined by the admin (ex. "No caption")
• set up lenght of caption (first x characters)
• caption can be displayed up or above the image

There is also an ETA for the next RSS Context Factory Module - next week! The new version will bring also compatibility to the Joomla 1.5.x and will fit perfect into the RSS Factory Suite.