Re: [Dspace-tech] Imagemagick or xpdf or both? DSPACE 5

2015-02-21 Thread Bobby 
Thanks so much for this. I think this new direction should be reflected 
in official docs. The Official docs still reflect that xpdf is the 
recommended means of getting quality thumbs with dspace and makes little 
reference to its deprecation in place of imagemagick


On 21/02/2015 20:40, Peter Dietz wrote:

Hi Bobby,

Don't use XPDF, I think we @deprecated it in DSpace 5, and the plan is 
to yank it out of DSpace in a future release. Getting XPDF enabled was 
a complete pain, as the dependencies for it don't readily exist, so 
installation was a heroic effort. Improved image quality of thumbs 
wasn't the main reason for adding imagemagick, installation simplicity 
was the main reason.


The ImageMagick integration is the way to go. Getting it installed it 
probably as simple as yum install ImageMagick. Then run "which 
convert" to see where it got installed to, i.e. /usr/bin/ or 
/usr/local/bin


I would remove XPDF from "filter.plugins" in dspace.cfg, once you get 
the image magick route working.


Best of luck!


Peter Dietz
Longsight
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Bobby > wrote:


Hi guys.. quick question.. am new to dspace.. am trying to get media
thumbnail working for pdf.. most docs refer to using the xpdf package
refer to in this doc
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Media_Filters/5.X
however
the official doc for dspace 5 claims it comes with pdf thumbnail
support
using imagemagick and ghostscript .. do I have to disable imagemagick
filter before enabling xpdf? or can both of them co-exist in the same
config file


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Re: [Dspace-tech] Imagemagick or xpdf or both? DSPACE 5

2015-02-21 Thread Peter Dietz 
Hi Bobby,

Don't use XPDF, I think we @deprecated it in DSpace 5, and the plan is to
yank it out of DSpace in a future release. Getting XPDF enabled was a
complete pain, as the dependencies for it don't readily exist, so
installation was a heroic effort. Improved image quality of thumbs wasn't
the main reason for adding imagemagick, installation simplicity was the
main reason.

The ImageMagick integration is the way to go. Getting it installed it
probably as simple as yum install ImageMagick. Then run "which convert" to
see where it got installed to, i.e. /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin

I would remove XPDF from "filter.plugins" in dspace.cfg, once you get the
image magick route working.

Best of luck!


Peter Dietz
Longsight
www.longsight.com
pe...@longsight.com
p: 740-599-5005 x809

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Bobby  wrote:

> Hi guys.. quick question.. am new to dspace.. am trying to get media
> thumbnail working for pdf.. most docs refer to using the xpdf package
> refer to in this doc
> http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Media_Filters/5.X however
> the official doc for dspace 5 claims it comes with pdf thumbnail support
> using imagemagick and ghostscript .. do I have to disable imagemagick
> filter before enabling xpdf? or can both of them co-exist in the same
> config file
>
>
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