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Pdf Renderer NOT for ARM64 . What else ?

Giuliano — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:09 GMT

Hi,

I'm testing ACS 6.2 on ARM64 hardware (Raspi 4, 8 Gb)

It works (!), but I cannot use the pdfrendere, beeing provided and licensed only for mac/win/linux on amd64.

May we remove the program and ANY referens in alfresco.globa.properties, without ANY problems ?

Who will provide the pdf rendering in his place ?

Imagemagic ?

Any configuration CORRECTION needed ?

Re: Pdf Renderer NOT for ARM64 . What else ?

abhinavmishra14 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:04:45 GMT

AFAIK this hardware is not supported.

You can remove the following config:

#PDF Renderer config, used for previewing pdf docs.
alfresco-pdf-renderer.root=/usr/local/alfresco-community62ga/alfresco-pdf-renderer
alfresco-pdf-renderer.exe=${alfresco-pdf-renderer.root}/alfresco-pdf-renderer

No imagemagick doesn't generate previews for PDFs. You may have to use custom extension and libraries such as itext to generate the previews on upload/create event.

You may also check this one : https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-add/pdf-rendering-extension-for-alfresco-5-0/td-p/291552

Re: Pdf Renderer NOT for ARM64 . What else ?

angelborroy — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:56:25 GMT

You can try building pdfium for ARM:

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/

Re: Pdf Renderer NOT for ARM64 . What else ?

Giuliano — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:23:56 GMT

Thanks Angelborray for the hint.

One more info:

considering that all the "office" document type are rendered in pdf by soffice.bin in headless mode, and image file are rendered in pdf by ImageMagick:

WHICH other file types are processed by PDFrenderer ?

Giuliano