Possible data security issue

  • This plugin does not work with ImageMagick’s current default settings. In order to make it work you have to change IM’s settings and thus open a possible security hole (cf. “ImageMagick security policy ‘PDF’ blocking conversion” on StackOverflow).
    But if you do so, you don’t need that plugin at all, because WordPress then does the thumbnail generation out of the box, and those image files only have 10 percent the size of those generated by this plugin.

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  • Plugin Author kubiq

    (@kubiq)

    YOUR “current default settings” are not really “current default settings” as you are running some old system, old libraries, etc…

    This was fixed 6 years ago in Ghostscript?9.25 and above…

    Size of the image file depends on the width, height and compression level, I thought it’s a basic knowledge…

    “Thank you” for this “expert opinion” and a star

    Perhaps the reviewer @bsoftde would like to explain how WordPress “does the thumbnail generation out of the box”. It certainly doesn’t do so in the same way as this plugin by converting each one and saving it in the same location in the uploads folder. I can only image you are referring to the ability to use a PDF url directly in an img tag to get a preview of the first page? However, this doesn’t give the same flexibility that the plugin affords in terms of image dimensions, format, and quality/compression level. I’m also guessing that older browsers may not support that style of usage either.

    • This reply was modified 3 months, 3 weeks ago by Jeremy Varnham. Reason: typo
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