topic Re: [SOLVED] How to make ImageMagick and SWFTools working ? in Alfresco Archive

[SOLVED] How to make ImageMagick and SWFTools working ?

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:28:06 GMT

Hi !I'm running Alfresco Labs 3 perfectly. I've installed the SDK 3 and also the ImageMagick and SWFTools stuffs. I followed the wiki for ImageMagick.Still, it seems that the paths use in the SDK are wrong for Windows. When I run the SDK FirstFoundationClient :Execution result: os: Window

Re: [SOLVED] How to make ImageMagick and SWFTools working ?

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:31:35 GMT

Finally, I solved it myself Actually I found two ways to make it work :

Here comes the first solution, the more "elegant" to me :
For each project which you want to use ImageMagick and SWFTools, add in their custom-repository.properties the following lines :

img.exe=C:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.9-Q16/imconvert
swf.exe=C:/Program Files/SWFTools/pdf2swf‍‍

For example, with the SDK FirstFoundationClient project :

<AlfrescoDir>\samples\FirstFoundationClient\build\alfresco\extension\custom-repository.properties

img.exe=C:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.9-Q16/imconvert
swf.exe=C:/Program Files/SWFTools/pdf2swf‍‍

The other option is the simply put the .exe file in the projet :
for the "SDK FirstFoundationClient" :

Don't forget for both solution, if you're running Windows, to rename the convert.exe into imconvert.exe for ImageMagick

that should do the trick

Any solution that is better or even more elegant is welcome ! I should say that it's quite bothering to edit every custom-repository.properties for each project, so I'm searching for a "global" editing : one file that you edit and that makes it work for every project.

Re: [SOLVED] How to make ImageMagick and SWFTools working ?

rliu — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:18:47 GMT

Thank you Benoit. That did the trick!

Re: [SOLVED] How to make ImageMagick and SWFTools working ?

boboss — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:55:27 GMT

Hi,

It seems that the commands are execute from the TOMCAT_HOME folder, instead of the C:\Alfresco folder (it is a bug… :? )

The solution for Alfresco 3.2r2 is to add this code in the file TOMCAT_HOME\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco-global.properties

# ############################# #
# External executable locations #
# ############################# #
#
# Default values can be found in WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/thirdparty/default
#
# ImageMagick
#
#img.root=./ImageMagick
#img.dyn=${img.root}/lib
#img.exe=${img.root}/bin/convert
img.root=${dir.root}/../ImageMagick

#
# pdf2swf
#
#swf.exe=./bin/pdf2swf
swf.exe=${dir.root}/../bin/pdf2swf

#
# OpenOffice
#
#ooo.exe=soffice
ooo.exe=${dir.root}/../OpenOffice.org/program/soffice
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[size=85]PS : dir.root is set to C:/Alfresco/alf_data[/size]

And there are no more error messages

Re: [SOLVED] How to make ImageMagick and SWFTools working ?

dward — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:27:23 GMT

It's not a bug.

The installation instructions http://wiki.alfresco.com/w/images/6/62/Installing_and_Configuring_Alfresco_ECM_Community_Edition_3_2_r2.pdf tell you to set img.exe and swf.exe to absolute paths.