[TYPO3-english] image upload of pdf file

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 5-4-2012 23:16, Peter Kühnlein wrote:
> Am 05.04.2012 23:01, schrieb Jigal van Hemert:
>> On 5-4-2012 21:48, Yordan Ivanov wrote:
>>> I bought a new hosting and now it allows me only GIF JPG JPEG .
>>> Where can I give allowance to upload PDF files for instance?
>>
>> Check the Install Tool:
>> [GFX][imagefile_ext] = gif,jpg,jpeg,tif,tiff,bmp,pcx,tga,png,pdf,ai
>>
> won't work jigal.
> i tried during the last 3 or 4 installations. GM or IM are f*ed up.

Then I must have misinterpreted "allow". TYPO3 doesn't know which file 
types work with GM/IM in your installation. It takes this list as the 
list of extensions for image fields.

See for example the tca.php in tt_news:

'image' => Array (
   'exclude' => 1,
   'l10n_mode' => $l10n_mode_image,
   'label' => 'LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_general.php:LGL.images',
   'config' => Array (
     'type' => 'group',
     'internal_type' => 'file',
     'allowed' => $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['GFX']['imagefile_ext'],

This uses the Install Tool setting to determine which extensions are 
allowed in this file selector field.

If you can select other file types but they can't be used (i.e. no 
thumbnails in backend rendered, no images in frontend), it's best to 
check the graphics rendering tests in the Install Tool. There you can 
easily see which image types can be read, written, modified, etc.

With TYPO3 4.6 we (finally) dropped support for really old versions of 
IM. You need IM 6.x or GM. I personally prefer GM because in general it 
has less annoying bugs, performs better and needs less resources. I must 
say that recent versions of IM contain a lot of improvements.

-- 
Jigal van Hemert
TYPO3 v4 Core Team member

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