[digiKam-users] Using pdf files for images

[Maik Qualmann]

 Another note about PDF and ImageMagick. PDF support in ImageMagick is
disabled in most distributions by a security policy. ImageMagick has a
configuration file for it. You shouldn't use ImageMagick with PDF.

Maik

Am Do., 14. Mai 2020 um 04:27 Uhr schrieb Gilles Caulier <
caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> You can add PDF as type mime in DK setup, but the last time that i do
> it, I see few time latency introduced to render thumbnail and preview.
>
> Typically, there is no specific implementation to render PDF in
> digiKam. We delegate the job to 2 possible codec :
>
> 1/ ImageMagick
> 2/ QImage
>
> Depending of the structure of PDF, ImageMagick will take a while and
> provide a wrong preview. Here i used my large lesson class
> documentations generated with LibreOffice, and the result was really
> really bad.
>
> I don't yet tested with QImage codec.
>
> This is why PDF is not included in type -mime by default in digiKam.
>
> So we can tune a little bit in DK to the right codec to see which one
> is the best. We need PDF samples from your collection to see the
> result.
>
> We have 2 bugs about this topic in bugzilla. PDF is a long story, and
> bug have been finally closed because no real and simple solution can
> be found :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145295
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226023
>
> So feel free to comment and reopen rigth file in bugzilla to continue
> this discussion.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> PS : excel and word as photo container will not work at all, i'm
> sure... It's definitvely a bad idea.
>
> Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 09:16, Infocidihca <infocidihca at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > I am new to digikam and working with a documentation organization. We
> have a lot of images received in pdf format. I noticed that digikam do not
> precess pdf files. Can I add this mime type to the configuration without
> creating problem with digikam processes?. Can I also add mime type for
> excel and word files as we receive these files with photo embedded.
> >
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