[Typo3-linux] some rather major Typo3 problems

[Raven Morris]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:19:32 +0200, Michael Stucki wrote:

> typo3 at atu.cjb.net wrote:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>> The single biggest problem with Typo3: it recommends that you use ancient
>> software.  For example it recommends ImageMagick 4.x.x, which is many
>> years old and which will not even compile on a modern system.
> 
> Read the mail archives to see why this is recommended!
>
> It's a fact that IM4.x is much faster than its version 5 family. I have a
> fast server, so I don't care about that and use the 5.4.4 that is bundled
> with my Woody.

I am aware that it is said to be faster ... but that does not come even
close to justifying using such ancient pieces of software.  If modern
ImageMagick is not to be used, then find another graphics package -- there
are many.

Well, it simply does not work.  No changes to the configuration change
what options are passed to the command line.

> I don't know much about that, but you may post this story at the dev-list to
> address a few more relevant people who care about this:
> news://news.netfielders.de/typo3.dev

Okay.

>> Next ImageMagick problem is with image masks used in some of the
>> special effects.  I have tried every possible combination of
>> [im_version_5], [im_negate_mask] and [im_imvMaskState].  I was a bit
>> disturbed to find out that when you set the [im_negate_mask] it overrides
>> the other option.  Irregardless, no combination of those three options
>> changes the command lines that are passed on to ImageMagick that appear in
>> the forms on the ?3: Image Processing? pages.  The image mask is always!
>> inverted, on all versions of ImageMagick and GDlib that I have tried, with
>> all available options tried out.
> 
> Which IM version did you use for that? I repeat: Regardless of any
> recommendation, TYPO3 works great with ImageMagick 5+.

Please see my other postings, I have now tried five versions of
ImageMagick and none of them work and none of them alter the command line
being used.

>> I deleted the typo3temp/* between each try, as I was unsure if it was
>> regenerating the images or not.
> 
> AFAIK these images won't be touched as long as you don't delete them. If
> they don't exist, TYPO3 will recreate them (right?).

It shouldn't cache them.  They are part of testing the install ... if
you make changes it shouldn't be opening up a pre-rendered image for you.

> I wish you good luck! But please be so kind and change your mailclient since
> the current one breaks threads. I recommend you to use a newsreader
> (news://news.netfielders.de/).
> 
> Cheers - michael

I wasn't using a mail client, I was using cjb.net webmail which is
extremely simplistic (doesn't have things like real name, attachments,
etc).

 - raven morris