On Thu, 04 Jul 2013, [email protected] wrote: > Just for my understanding: when I upload fulltext files on the backend > I get exactly what I upload. However, when I use the document file > manager, I get some conversions done, like creation of a thumbnail, > conversion to ps and so on. As far as I can see, this can not be done > by fft tags, right?
The document format conversion matrix is configurable via CFG_BIBDOCFILE_DESIRED_CONVERSIONS and usually happens at the submission time, see `convert_file()' living in `websubmit_file_converter.py' and getting called during submission time via `Shared_Functions.py'. The Document File Manager also calls it this way. The additional desired formats are not created during the FFT step, the thinking being the bibupload would simply faithfully store what it is being handed at that stage. The format conversion would be plugged in any given harvesting pipeline before the upload step, just as in the submission process. Or we could perhaps think of making the default format conversions better configurable and runnable at this later step too... Best regards -- Tibor Simko
