[Typo3-linux] Can't get graphicsmagick to work

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Hi Roberto,

On 10/6/05, Roberto <rmartinez at netcontac.com> wrote:

> About PDF, I though PDFLib was enought, now I am not clear what is it for,
> specially because its license is comercial, I mean, it would not be fair
> to pay more for it than Typo3. What had you done with it?

PDFLib is needed only if you want to _create_ PDF's dynamically from
PHP. I'm not sure any component in Typo even uses it.

gs is short for GhostScript, and it is a set of libraries that let you
"render" PostScript and (and PDFs as a special case of it) into raster
images, such as jpeg and gif. On RH, the package is called ghostscript
and is a part of the distribution. You don't have to worry to specify
paths to gs in PHP config since gs is called by GraphicsMagick.

xpdf is a utility that lets you extract text out of pdfs, shipped with
RH as xpdf. You would use it to enable indexing user-uploaded pdfs so
they would show in indexed_search results. See docs on indexed_search
ext.

catdoc is another utility that extracts plain text from MS Word .doc
files, used the same way as xpdf. I'm not sure RH9 RPM is easily
available but it's a free product and rpmfind.net is your friend;))

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Dimitri Tarassenko