PDF Support

  • Resolved Gammonite

    (@gammonite)


    6 years ago

    We would like to have PDF support in our albums. It seems like this can be done by installing the ImageMagick plugin. There are reported vulnerabilities with this plug and I wonder if this is a concern. As I understand, this plugin is only used in WPPA+ to extract the first page of a PDF and create a JPG from it. I would appreciate your comments on this so I can assure our admin that this is safe to do.

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  • Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    If you make sure your pdf’s do not contain malicious content, and no other users are permitted to upload pdf’s… i would dare to do it.

    Also, make sure your imagemagick version actually processes pdf’s, unfortunalely my hosting provider installed a version that no longer works, so i can no longer add pdfs to the doc site.

    Thread Starter Gammonite

    (@gammonite)

    Thanks Jacob. That gives us a lot to think about actually.

    I wonder if you might consider adding support for PDF’s similar to that for Audio and Video? For those we upload 2 files, one for the actual media file and one for a thumbnail image? PDF’s are very important to our project and we would consider contributing to the cost of this.

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    support for PDF’s similar to that for Audio

    This is a good idea.
    It may take a few weeks, but i will work on it.

    Thread Starter Gammonite

    (@gammonite)

    Thank you. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. I think it ill be a very useful feature. ??

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    Got it working (dev version, not released yet, but available here:)
    https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/wp-photo-album-plus.zip

    If you want to test it, install it like explained here:
    https://wppa.nl/docs-by-subject/development-version/

    You can upload a pdf on the upload page box A or B
    You will no longer get an errormessage, but a warning, telling you that you can upload a .jpg image of the same name thereafter. (.png does not work yet)

    Thread Starter Gammonite

    (@gammonite)

    I see this on your WPPA Beta Test. This is very nice. I am looking forward to seeing it in a live release. Our Web manager is reluctant to use a beta version of the plugin. Thanks!

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    This is released at 7.0.03, dec 04.

    See https://wppa.nl/changelog/

    If you have no ImageMagick installed or your ImageMagick version does not convert .pdf to .jpg, you can now upload a self created image file (e.g. screenshot) after the upload of the .pdf file. Names must be equal except the file-extension. .jpg and .png files are supported for this purpose.

    The ‘document’ documentation page will be updated asap.

    Thread Starter Gammonite

    (@gammonite)

    Ah, very good!

    One thing though. When I select the Thumbnail of a PDF from an Album, the Thumbnail is enlarged but there doesn’t appear to be a PDF to navigate. Perhaps I don’t have some setting ticked in the configuration tables.

    Thread Starter Gammonite

    (@gammonite)

    Actually, now that I look at the documentation page, I see I needed to add some coding. It now works exactly the way I have envisioned.

    Thank you very much for this!

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