Does PDF Thumbnails work?

that bug is fixed.. update to current cvs or nightly snapshot.

to get thumbnails for pdf you can:
1) use thumbnail manager to assign a default thumbnail used for all pdfs
2) make sure you have both imagemagick and gs (ghostscript) on your system and activate the G2 imagemagick module.. then you'll get pdf thumbnails of the first page of the pdf. you can additionally activate the Thumbnail Page module which lets you pick which page# to use for the thumbnail (edit document / thumb page tab)

Look at the FAQ stickied in this forum.

Take another look at the FAQ, looking for "nightly" zip/tar files.

That's what I needed. Thanks. I udpated and the Thumbnail manager works. Apparently my hosting company does not have Ghostscript on their system, so I e-mailed them asking to set it up for me. So that should fix the PDF auto thumbnail for me.

One thing I think this needs though, is to be able to assign a thumbnail to each file. Instead of having ONE default image for all .pdf files. You should be able to assign 1 image to 1 .pdf file. Just a thought..

I haven't heard too many complaints about PowWeb. If you're having problems with them, please let me know. Remember that they're geared up to support Gallery 1.x, and are only coming up to speed on Gallery 2.x now (remember that G2 is still an alpha product!).

We have plans to allow you to assign a custom thumbnail to each file. Won't happen in the near future, but it will happen.

I'm using the latest version of WinCVS for pulling G2 right now ... though I didn't see your instructions ;)

Oooh, after looking at them now, they really are out of date.

It's now a lot easier to checkout source code in WinCVS:

Feel free to update your web page with these instructions, or repost them in the G2 FAQ (or in a separate stickied thread). If you use them, please give credit to Louis St-Amour (CSpotkill), if possible. Also, please save the image locally, as it is currently hosted on my home ADSL connection. Thanks.[/]

gs needs to be in your path so imagemagick can find it.
does "identify modules/imagemagick/test/data/test.pdf" work?

I meant trying the identify command from the command line when logged into your server.

You could accomplish the direct download using a layouts/matrix/templates/albumBody.tpl.local
change this code:

    {capture name="link"}<a href="{g->url arg1="view=core:ShowItem"
                                          arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">{/capture}

to:

    {capture name="link"}<a href="{if $child.mimeType == "application/pdf"}{g->url
      arg1="view=core:DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}{else}{g->url
      arg1="view=core:ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}{/if}">{/capture}

I think that works.. you might also need isset($child.mimeType) in the "if"

hmm, i tried it out.. i'll give as much detail as you did

It worked.

The {capture name="link"} code is only to directly download the .pdf file from the link/thumbnail, it won't magically fix the thumbnail problem on its own, that's something else, probably configuration-related. I'd recommend re-installing a recent GhostScript 8 RPM (on Linux) or using the installation wizard on Windows. If you leave it in the default installation directory, ImageMagick should find it, no problemo.

As for adding the code to the if statement, I'd assume it would look something like this:

{capture name="link"}<a href="{if isset($child.mimeType) && $child.mimeType == "application/pdf"}{g->url
arg1="view=core:DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}{else}{g->url
arg1="view=core:ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}{/if}">{/capture}

All that should do is see whether child.mineType is set before confirming the value as "application/pdf". Again, it also won't magically fix the thumbnail problem, but it might prevent errors if there isn't a mimeType for the item. Or something like that.

Could there be a certain folder that I am not CHMODing correctly? The only one I did was g2data at 777

Also, I uploaded a typical JPG file and there WAS a thumbnail created for it..

you never posted the output of the identify command from the command line..

I'm not familiar with what PowWeb offers, but they have good tech support so you could forward this forum thread to them and ask them if they can help and see what comes of it...

that's an error from trying to copy the uploaded file to its location in g2data/albums.
enable debug output to get more detail on the error, if it is reproducible.
is the disk full or something like that?

The problem is that you're only including part of the debug output (the stack trace) which doesn't include other information that we really need to diagnose your problem. Can you take all the debug output, save it into a file, put it on your website and post a link to it here? That will probably help us figure out what's going wrong.

that appears to be an error stack trace, but there is no debug output.

It didnt... still won't create thumbnails..

Let me know how it goes Mindless

I added test.php in the root directory so you can check it out.

Also, I did the "test settings" for imagemagic and the supported MIME types are:
image/gif
image/jpeg
image/pjpeg
image/jp2
image/jpg2
image/jpx
image/png
image/tiff
image/svg+xml
image/bmp
application/pdf
application/postscript

So it does show pdf support?

Holiday is getting me a bit busy, but come monday or tuesday I will write them a note and see if they can figure it out.

Ok, they are not responding.. anything else I can do?

Great, Thanks

if your webhost has some broken software installed and won't fix it then i guess you could try installing your own copy of imagemagick and give the appropriate path to the G2 imagemagick module.

Hello,

I've got the latest release of G2 installed using the latest version of the PG theme and I'm able to see .pdf as supported file type. However, G2 does not generate thumbnails of the pdf. It creates a broken document icon and a link to the document download. Any ideas?

Thanks for the prompt response. Imagemagick does show pdf as a supported MIME type. I rebuilt thumbs and resizes to no avail. I believe the pertinent error output is as follows:

Error: /undefined in /BXlevel
Operand stack:
--dict:5/5(L)-- 1 --dict:6/6(ro)(G)-- xref
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3
%oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- %loop_continue --nostringval--
false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- %loop_continue
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1072/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:93/200(L)--
--dict:93/200(L)-- --dict:97/127(ro)(G)-- --dict:229/230(ro)(G)--
--dict:16/24(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Error Output:
GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
identify: Postscript delegate failed
`/home/httpd/vhosts/gallery.cinemadesigngroup.com/httpdocs/gallery/g2data/albums/Dealer
Backpages/testpdf/CDGi_Theater_Seat_Models.pdf'.
Status: 1 (expected 0)
chdir(/home/httpd/vhosts/gallery.cinemadesigngroup.com/httpdocs/gallery)
realpath(/home/httpd/vhosts/gallery.cinemadesigngroup.com/httpdocs/gallery/modules/core/classes/../../../)

Error (ERROR_TOOLKIT_FAILURE)in
modules/imagemagick/classes/ImageMagickToolkit.class at line 405
(gallerystatus::error)
in modules/imagemagick/classes/ImageMagickToolkit.class at
line 130 (imagemagicktoolkit::_getimagedimensions)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryDerivative.class at line 483
(imagemagicktoolkit::performoperation)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryDerivative.class at line 312
(galleryderivativeimage::_rebuildcache)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryDerivativeImage.class at line
175 (galleryderivative::rebuildcache)
in
modules/core/classes/helpers/GalleryDerivativeHelper_advanced.class at
line 703 (galleryderivativeimage::rebuildcache)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryCoreApi.class at line 830
(galleryderivativehelper_advanced::rebuildcache)
in
modules/core/classes/helpers/GalleryDerivativeHelper_simple.class at
line 66 (gallerycoreapi::rebuildderivativecache)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryCoreApi.class at line 817
(galleryderivativehelper_simple::rebuildcacheifnotcurrent)
in modules/core/classes/BuildDerivativesTask.class at line
92 (gallerycoreapi::rebuildderivativecacheifnotcurrent)
in modules/core/AdminMaintenance.inc at line 104
(buildderivativestask::run)
in ??? at line 0 (adminmaintenancecontroller::runtask)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryTemplateAdapter.class at line
730
in
g2data/smarty/templates_c/%%3681953864/%%0B^0B4^0B4F6589%%theme.tpl.php
at line 267 (gallerytemplateadapter::trailer)
in lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php at line 1251
in modules/core/classes/GallerySmarty.class at line 90
(smarty::fetch)
in modules/core/classes/GalleryTemplate.class at line 228
(gallerysmarty::fetch)
in main.php at line 316 (gallerytemplate::display)
in main.php at line 87
in main.php at line 80

copy(/home/httpd/vhosts/gallery.cinemadesigngroup.com/httpdocs/gallery/modules/core/classes/../data/broken-image.gif,
/home/httpd/vhosts/gallery.cinemadesigngroup.com/httpdocs/gallery/g2data/cache/derivative/4/8/4837.dat)

Thanks again!