[Typo3] problems after clearing typo3temp/pics

[Dennis Shewmaker]

Hello,

Alex van der Baan wrote:
> Yesterday I ported my website from my local linux box to our providers 
> machine, since they gave me a hard time importing the database, I 
> decided to import and export t3d files.
> 
> Since I started with importing and later ftp'ing the files some images 
> were transfered but of a really bad quality (pdf datasheets). After some 
> searching I found the location that Typo uses to store these preview 
> images of a pdf file, typo3temp/pics. Initially I couldn't flush this 
> folder due to the fact that typo3 created the images thus giving the 
> files the nobody user instead of the user given to me by the hosting 
> provider. After a chown on the side of the provider, I flushed the 
> folder. I would have expected Typo3 to regenerate the preview picture 
> from the PDF. Unfortunately this doesnt happen, do people here have 
> experience with this? Or know how I can replace bad quality graphics to 
> newly generated ones?

Since you moved hosts, I would check and see if ImageMagick is compiled 
with pdf support in the install tool.  If you had those typo3temp/pics 
files generated on your old server that is.

-- 
Dennis