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thumbnail issue

nancygaillard — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:27:12 GMT

HiI am running Alfresco Community 4.2.e (for Windows 64bits) on 😘 Windows Server 2008 r2 (64bits)* Windows 7 x64bits[UPDATED]I can't visualize any PDF document on Windows Server correctly, since I have re-install and restore Alfresco. I thought my backup was bad, but I tested it in my Windows 7, a

Re: thumbnail issue

scouil — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:06:24 GMT

Hi,

The renditions (thumbnails, previews) are stored in Alfresco but need to be generated first using tools external to Alfresco.
So to get new thumbnails you need those tools installed on the machine that is running Alfresco (or another machine in case you have the transformation server installed).

So judging from the error, I would believe that either you don't have ImageMagick installed in your new windows server, or you have a wrong path for it in your alfresco-global.properties

Re: thumbnail issue

nancygaillard — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:32:00 GMT

Thank you!

I made a mistake. The real problem is a "dysfunction" of the preview. With some researches, I noted that the preview rendering that I can see for PDF or TXT in my Windows Server look like the one for a PNG.

I found the folder "imagemagick" in my Alfresco home : C:\Alfresco2\imagemagick
and in the alfresco-global properties, I can see:
<blockcode>
img.root=C:\\Alfresco2\\imagemagick
img.coders=${img.root}\\modules\\coders
img.config=${img.root}\\config
img.gslib=${img.root}\\lib
img.exe=${img.root}\\convert.exe
</blockcode>

I tested in command line

C:\Alfresco2\imagemagick\convert -version‍

and it returns
<blockquote>
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.6-6 2013-07-16 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jng jp2 jpeg lcms lzma openexr pango png ps tiff x xml zlib
<blockquote>

Re: thumbnail issue

scouil — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:16:01 GMT

Hi,

Do you have SWFTools installed as well?
And the property swf.exe pointing to the correct pdf2swf ?

Re: thumbnail issue

nancygaillard — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:39:49 GMT

It was really the problem.
I had something like that:
<blockcode>
swf.exe=C:/ALFRES~1/swftools/pdf2swf.exe
swf.languagedir=C:/ALFRES~1/swftools/japanese
</blockcode>
when it would be like this:
<blockcode>
swf.exe=C:/ALFRES~2/swftools/pdf2swf.exe
swf.languagedir=C:/ALFRES~2/swftools/japanese
</blockcode>