GR and Imagemagick

FWIW, I had lost (after tweaking) the ability to size images via Imagemagick after upgrading to B3. I ended up uninstalling then reinstalling the 1.5 install proggie, then added the b3 upgrade. THen went to the GR/imagemagick subdir and edited the im.properties file. All I did, which I had done before but suspect something had changed in the config file, was to add imagemagick/convert.exe to the im path line. It worked.

Would it be possible to include this in future revs of GR? Without this, the conversion element breaks.

Great program and utilility.

Hello Paour,

Thank you for your response. I and am certain many appreciate the work and skills that have gone into these applications. GR is a terrific tool and much valued.

Here is the log trace that your requested. I copied from the first mention of imagemagick to the end, leaving out some obvious unimportant stuff. This is on a Windows 2000 machine, but the same characteristics occur on two other Win 2000 machines, and 3 other XPs that I have had access to. If I had the skills, I would roll up sleeves and try to solve this, but I don't. Anything I can do to help a solution, I will do.

kind regards, drhiii

52416|TRACE|PropsFile |Trying to find imagemagick/im.properties in Current Working Dir
52446|INFO |ImageUtils|useIM: true
52446|INFO |ImageUtils|imPath: convert.exe
52446|INFO |ImageUtils|imIgnoreErrorCode: false
52446|TRACE|ImageUtils|Executing reg query HKLM\Software\ImageMagick\Current /v BinPath
52726|ERROR|ImageUtils|java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: reg query HKLM\Software\ImageMagick\Current /v BinPath error=2
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at com.gallery.GalleryRemote.util.ImageUtils.exec(ImageUtils.java:1129)
at com.gallery.GalleryRemote.util.ImageUtils.<clinit>(ImageUtils.java:864)
at com.gallery.GalleryRemote.PictureInspector.jbInit(PictureInspector.java:195)
at com.gallery.GalleryRemote.PictureInspector.<init>(PictureInspector.java:91)
at com.gallery.GalleryRemote.MainFrame.<init>(MainFrame.java:151)
at com.gallery.GalleryRemote.GalleryRemoteMainFrame.initializeGR(GalleryRemoteMainFrame.java:58)
at com.gallery.GalleryRemote.GalleryRemote.main(GalleryRemote.java:186)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(DashoA8113)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA8113)

52856|CRITI|ImageUtils|ImageMagick path is not fully qualified, presence won't be tested until later
52896|TRACE|PropsFile |Trying to find jpegtran/jpegtran.properties in CurrentWorking Dir
52896|INFO |ImageUtils|useJpegtran: true
52896|INFO |ImageUtils|jpegtranPath: jpegtran/win32/jpegtran.exe
52896|INFO |ImageUtils|jpegtranIgnoreErrorCode: false
52906|TRACE|PictInspec|emptyIconHeight: 16

55039|TRACE|MainFrame |updateGalleryParams: current gallery: david.xxxxx.com

55039|TRACE|MainFrame |updatePicturesList: current album: null
65394|TRACE|Update |Local release date: Mon Dec 05 00:00:00 MST 2005 new: Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 MDT 2005
65835|TRACE|Update |Local release date: Mon Dec 05 00:00:00 MST 2005 new: Mon Dec 05 00:00:00 MST 2005

Thank you for your very fast response.

Well, now this is strange. I ran the command and received a "Not Found", so I did a search for reg and reg.exe. File doesn't exist on this first box. I will try this on a couple other boxes, a Win 2000 and an XP, so what are the chances of all of them exhibiting the same problem?? Hm. But all failed, 2000s and XPs, to find the convert.exe file.

It is strange. It is also messy to try and talk someone through the twaek of the im.properties file too! Anyway, I appreciate your response and whatever I can do to help, I will be of service.

You're right. I thought that reg.exe was on all Windows machines, but it's only on Server 2003 and XP Pro. I'll add a fallback using Regedit, which should be on every Windows machine...

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Gallery Remote developer

Hello Paour,

Again, thank you for this accelerated dialogue. I ran the string and yes, did have to create the D:\TEMP directory, and here is the output of that command. It looks like it did indeed return the necessary information. I thought about running regedit but I do not know enough about MS. Here is the output...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ImageMagick\Current]
"QuantumDepth"=dword:00000010
"ApplicationDefaultsPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Gallery Remote\\imagemagick\\win32\\config"
"BinPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Gallery Remote\\imagemagick\\win32"
"LibPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Gallery Remote\\imagemagick\\win32"
"ModulesPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Gallery Remote\\imagemagick\\win32\\modules"
"SharePath"="C:\\Program Files\\Gallery Remote\\imagemagick\\win32\\config"
"Version"="5.4.8"

Well, I have to say THANK YOU for such a wonderful application. Recently I suggested GR to someone to post images and they have literally become a born again Gallery Remote person. They love it. Am finding several, many, really understand the utility of conversion before uploading. GR is a big hit.

If I may reach a bit more since we're chattering, am certain you must get slammed with requests.... if I could post a couple that came to mind. It would be quite useful to have the ability to tweak the image quality value from the URL edit screen. It is set to 80 and have found that being able to alter that is quite useful when preprocessing images. And the possibility of adding more resizing values. It presently goes to 3mpix. I've found some utility in another one or two larger sizes also useful.

Anyway, GR is a great application. I hope it continues to grow. Only wish I had the skillsets to contrib to it.

regards, drhiii

I am having the same problem. After I updated to b3, when I select a picture, I get a pop-up telling me the IM is not installed or not working properly.....

I updated im.properties to point to imagemagick/win32/convert.exe but that didn't help.
I updated im.properties to point to:
/Program Files/Gallery Remote/imagemagick/win32/convert.exe but that didn't help.

I even tried adding the information from im.properties into my GalleryRemote.properties

I installed IM as a seperate program. IM is in:
C:\Program Files\ImageMagick
The reg keys point to this location. For example:

"Binpath"="C:\Program Files\ImageMagick"

I tried changing im.properties to point to this location, but that didn't help either

Not sure what else to try before trying to remove and re-install

Gallery 1 on a win2k OS

The praise is well deserved. As mentioned in a previous message to someone else, it is pretty cool to see some older folks for instance who work on a non profit museum take to Gallery and Gallery Remote. When I saw how it was affecting their ability to just get stuff done, well... that is a worthy thing in my opinion. GR is part of that. By making cool stuff happen.

And yes, it would be a bonus to have different quality settings per URL.

And yes yes... just having additional upsizes like 4MPix and 5MPix would be a further bonus. This helps with images for things like those museums where is keeps image sizing a standard size instead of all over the place like happens now. GR has been a gift in this non profit museum stuff.

I appreciated your continued dialogue. GR is spreading some excellent good will for worthy stuff, like a couple of museums.

regards, drhiii

That sounds most excellent Paour. Would I be pressing it too much to ask about the image quality value too? Adding an admin ability to change the image quality, currently defaulted to 80, on a per URL basis?

Anyway, the reg/regedit tweak will definitely solve a ton of things for sure. Much, much appreciated.

drhiii

Paour,

Thanks very much for the quick reply. I'll wait for b4 and test it before I try a uninstall/reinstall.

Paour,

I was away until now and first opportunity to work with b4. Great! Just tremendous. THe extra conversion sizes make a big difference for starters. And it all works well. No problems.

A couple of questions if I may... when GR does the local conversions, do you know how much is actually taken out of the image with the default 80% value that is inside im.properties? I don't know how to judge that. I've been working on different values for that number, from 80% to 100% and I can figure out the filesizing based on the % value... but I wondered if anyone knew how to gauge the % of color information that is removed frm the image as well? This really doesn't need an answer unless someone knows it right off.

Otherwise, b4 works well. Thank you for your very fast responses. I will push the URLs of a site or two once they go live so you can see what the museums are actually able to do.

Oh, one other question.... in a future rev, would it be possible to allow an administrative ability to change the JPEG image quality instead of going into im.properties manually?

Super work...

kind regards, drhiii

I understand. I'll keep working on test images to understand fully the characteristics.

And cool too, on the new user interface. I will also work on the applet version too. It is giving me an error at the moment, but the server this is running on is about to be replaced and before I start looking at everything else, I feel the new server should be implemented and everything reinstalled. I can't tell you how much time GR saves people. I just volunteered a G2 site to help with a photo book collaboration. I didn't recommend any particular upload method, but several of the photographers found and tried GR and love it. It really does solve some healthy workflow needs...

regards, drhiii

Looks like I fixed it. I changed the file GalleryRemote.properties to read:
im.convertPath=/Progra~1/ImageMagick/convert.exe
Which appears to fix the problem