Hi Justin,
Maybe a solution is to use Illustrator as a kind of server application and
integrate it in a workflow. It is possible to script Adobe Illustrator CS2
(I think it was with JAVAscript).
I also think that it's possible to check if an image is valid vector art
with Illustrator-scripting.
Hope it helps
greetings
Joost Saanen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:45 PM
Subject: [magick-users] Draw Vector?
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!
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