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Hi guys, in order for me to explain what I'm trying to do, allow me to
preface my question with a little bit of an explanation. I work for a
company that routinely receives image files from clients and then
forwards them to the manufacturer for enlarging and placing their
company logo on all manner of promotional items. As you can imagine, the
logo needs to be in vector format so that it can be resized to any
resolution required by the client. Currently if a file is sent in it
gets forwarded to one semi-technically inclined sales person who uses
Adobe Illustrator to open the file and use the "Show Lines" feature to
verify that it is vector art. As you can imagine this is a huge waste of
time for this individual, but we don't want to buy licenses for
Illustrator for everyone in the office simply so they can check if an
image is valid vector art. Additionally, the majority of the company is
in sales, and is extremely computer illiterate, so my boss asked me if I
could come up with a way to check if an image was in valid EPS format.
Using image magick and a bash script with a PHP front end I created a
mechanism for the sales person to upload the file to the server which
would then tell the sales person if the file was a valid EPS file or not
and display a jpeg preview of the image on the page. This worked well
for a time, as the majority of files that weren't vector art were simply
jpegs that had been renamed to EPS, and ImageMagick could easily tell
the difference. However, it's come to my attention recently that some of
our clients are submitting logos in true EPS format, but without any
vector art, so the script detects it as valid EPS, which is true, but
since it isn't vector art the image is useless. I'm hoping that there is
a way to use ImageMagick to perform an action similar to the "Show
Lines" feature in Illustrator. That is to say that I would like for IM
to outline the vector lines in the image so the Sales Rep can verify
that it is in fact vector art. Is this possible? Also, the reason that
I'm not using the ImageMagick display utility is because to be quite
honest even a program as simple as the display utility is beyond most of
the sales team. Currently there is simply a bookmark on their desktop
that takes them directly to the site where they upload the image by
clicking on one button and it tells them the information that they need
to know. Thanks in advance!
- [magick-users] Draw Vector? Justin Moore
- Re: [magick-users] Draw Vector? Joost Saanen
