[TYPO3-dam] external thumbnails for PDF files

[georg kuehnberger]

Lukas, Peter,

Be warned: No garateed solution, just some recallls from the past:

There once was a statically compiled binary of imagemagick (tip on the 
hat to Michael Stucki) containing most of the needed functions, and I 
think to remember even the libs needed for PDF-thumbnail stuff, which 
worked for us on "unwilling" hosters;
This however was IM version 4.2.9 AFAIR and you would have to upload it 
via FTP into your "webspace" and CHMOD it so that the webserver could 
execute it.
NO, we never (again) did that with DAM, and dont support it anymore, 
however in the old days the above procedure was the only meaningful way 
of getting TYPO3's graphical functions to work on unwilling hosters.

hth regards georg
PS: Michaels binaries seem still to be avail (WHOO even with 
graphicsmagic) under http://typo3.sunsite.dk/software/linux/

Lukas Stancik wrote:
> I see... Well thanks for your answer Peter, although it's not what I 
> would like to hear :D
> 
> Regards
> 
> Lukas
> 
> Peter Kuehn [wmdb>] napsal(a):
>> Hi Lukas,
>>
>> sry that I have to say: no, at least not at the moment.
>>
>> there have been discussions (ok - to be precise: i mention it every 
>> now and then ;) ) that it might be an idea to rework thumbs.php and 
>> related (the ones who create and display thumbnails) to a services 
>> based approach. this might give a handle to grab to show thumbnails in 
>> the way you are asking for, but it needs some coding to be done on 
>> both sides - core and dam, communication and therefore: time.
>>
>> its on some lists for DAM 1.2 but atm: no chance since thumbnails are 
>> done via calls to core api functions.
>>
>> gRTz
>> pekue
>>
>> Lukas Stancik schrieb:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> my webhosting does not provide Ghostscript functionality with 
>>> Imagemagick and will not provide it neither in future. But I'd still 
>>> like to provide the thumbnails for PDF files. Is there a way to 
>>> display jpeg thumbnails created outside TYPO3, stored somewhere in 
>>> fileadmin tree with names matching the filename of the PDF file? Or 
>>> is there any other way at all? Thanks very much for any hint.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> Lukas Stancik