[Radiant] animated GIFs
Hello Everybody, I am new to the list, very new to CMSs and very very new to Radiant (a great system, very excited to use it) ... building my wife's chocolate truffles website I wonder, if Radiant display animated GIFs. I uplloaded one and it doesn't work. Is there a trick to it or an extension? Thanks in advance and apologies if my questikon is too trivial Guido
Re: [Radiant] animated GIFs
I assume you're using the 1.0 release candidate, and therefore the new asset manager extension? I've seen this with transparent PNG, too. The paperclipped created thumbnails didn't have transparent areas but instead black background. Radiant itself shouldn't change the file that you're uploading but will use imagemagick to create variants with other dimensions. Do you use an attribute size with the tag r:asset:image? Try without it. Regards, Christian Am 15.06.2011 um 10:28 schrieb GD: Hello Everybody, I am new to the list, very new to CMSs and very very new to Radiant (a great system, very excited to use it) ... building my wife's chocolate truffles website I wonder, if Radiant display animated GIFs. I uplloaded one and it doesn't work. Is there a trick to it or an extension? Thanks in advance and apologies if my questikon is too trivial Guido
Re: [Radiant] animated GIFs
On 15 Jun 2011, at 09:54, Christian Aust wrote: I assume you're using the 1.0 release candidate, and therefore the new asset manager extension? I've seen this with transparent PNG, too. The paperclipped created thumbnails didn't have transparent areas but instead black background. Radiant itself shouldn't change the file that you're uploading but will use imagemagick to create variants with other dimensions. The asset manager will only create the thumbnails that you tell it to, apart from a couple of standard sizes that we use in the admin interface. Both of those are small so we use pngs: in most other cases the original file format will be preserved. Imagemagick should handle transparency, but it does have some issues in older versions. It tends to add a black halo. Try and make sure you have version 6.2.4 or later. The asset manager is not very well documented at the moment, I'm afraid. It will be soon. For now you have to edit the config entry assets.thumbnails.image, where you can define as many thumbnails as you like with this kind of format: tiny:size=20x20#,format=png|huge:size=1280x1280|... likewise for assets.thumbnails.video and so on. Be warned, though: one reason it's not documented is that we haven't committed to the format yet, so it is likely to change. The other reason is that soon this will all be configurable through the admin interface. best, will
Re: [Radiant] animated GIFs
On 15 Jun 2011, at 09:28, GD wrote: Hello Everybody, I am new to the list, very new to CMSs and very very new to Radiant (a great system, very excited to use it) ... building my wife's chocolate truffles website I wonder, if Radiant display animated GIFs. I uplloaded one and it doesn't work. Is there a trick to it or an extension? Hello Guido, and welcome. Radiant doesn't touch the image file itself, so if you want to display the uploaded GIF, you should only need a tag like this: r:assets:image id=x size=original / You should be able to omit the size parameter too: 'original' is the default. If you want to display one of the resized versions, you will run into two issues. First, the standard thumbnail and icon are translated to PNG format for use in the admin interface. You would need to add another thumbnail style that did not change the image format. Secondly, an issue with paperclipped: due to a pdf-resizing hack it will only capture the first frame of an animated gif. There is a patch that we can apply if the main distribution doesn't adopt it, but it will get a bit messy and I'm reluctant unless there is a strong demand from the animated-gif-resizing community. best, will
