I am wondering if it is possible to upload eps or pdf files using zenphoto?

thanks
Jon

It is possible that the Imagick graphics handler will do those formats. I cannot check that as my servers do not support Imagick. The GD library does not handle those.

There is a plugin named class-textobject that provides a means of handling pdf files. It uses the Google Docs website to display them within a frame. I do not know if Google also handlse eps, if it does it would be a simple extension to add eps to the list.

The drawback to this, however, is that the installation must be able to interact with the google site--this fails for local installs because the google site cannot retrieve the pdf file.

Imagick can handle .pdf files, but you will have to configure ImageMagick with that specific decode delegate. Chances are that your host would have to do that for you, so the `class-textobject` way is probably easiest.

Thanks for the reply.

I do have Imagick pre-installed on the server, and it's reporting the ability to handle pretty much everything under the sun according to phpinfo.

I don't have access to my server root config, but I do have SSH access and can make a custom php.ini, so maybe I can configure as needed?

Anyway, how do I get zenphoto to even allow eps / pdf / ps / psd / ai to upload?

Also, how would I tell ZP to have Imagick process those files?

Just FYI, my goal here is to use ZP as a client repository on a print project we're doing. The thought is that they'll be able to upload the eps files, and see through ZP what images are in place and what still needs to be given to us, so that we can catch incorrect logos before getting comps to them.

I'd imagine that SSH wouldn't give you the ability to configure ImageMagick, but there's a small chance it might. The file you'd need is `delegates.xml`. You can always ask your host to help configure it for you if necessary.

`lib-Imagick` has some formats blacklisted because they specifically require decode delegates or other dependencies. Honestly, I can't recall the reason for this, though I do recall an issue with formats in the past. For now, you can remove the formats you want to use from the blacklist and then they should work.

If you have Imagick enabled, it should process all files that are registered to Zenphoto to process. The list of valid formats is listed on the Upload tab in the back-end.

Found the delegates file, looks like it's 644 to root, so I can at least read it. It's got:
`
<delegate decode="eps" encode="pdf" mode="bi" command=""gs" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite" "-sOutputFile=%o" "-f%i""/>
<delegate decode="eps" encode="ps" mode="bi" command=""gs" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "-sDEVICE=pswrite" "-sOutputFile=%o" "-f%i""/>
`
I saw the blacklist in lib-Imagick, and commented out the ghostscript line, but still no dice. Uploadify does nothing, HTML upload reports that it's not a valid format. As expected, the valid photos listed on the Upload tab in the backend do not include EPS.

So, is there somewhere I can modify which formats are valid in Zenphoto?

Look at the text-object plugin to see how to make a plugin to support file formats that are actually not supported.

To get a thumbnail preview you will have to follow the instructions regarding making manual video thumbnails on our troubleshooting.

Also since they will not be displayed as they are not supported you will have to create another workaround for this as well.

Gotcha.

I also came across another thread on this forum, http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=7549#post-44455 that says the system is coded to only work with imagick. That might be an issue too, so I'll look into that.