Re: [Dspace-tech] Imagemagick or xpdf or both? DSPACE 5

2015-02-21 Thread Bobby
Thanks so much for this. I think this new direction should be reflected in official docs. The Official docs still reflect that xpdf is the recommended means of getting quality thumbs with dspace and makes little reference to its deprecation in place of imagemagick On 21/02/2015 20:40, Peter Di

Re: [Dspace-tech] Imagemagick or xpdf or both? DSPACE 5

2015-02-21 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi Bobby, Don't use XPDF, I think we @deprecated it in DSpace 5, and the plan is to yank it out of DSpace in a future release. Getting XPDF enabled was a complete pain, as the dependencies for it don't readily exist, so installation was a heroic effort. Improved image quality of thumbs wasn't the

[Dspace-tech] Imagemagick or xpdf or both? DSPACE 5

2015-02-20 Thread Bobby
Hi guys.. quick question.. am new to dspace.. am trying to get media thumbnail working for pdf.. most docs refer to using the xpdf package refer to in this doc http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Media_Filters/5.X however the official doc for dspace 5 claims it comes with pdf thumbna