Guys,

One huge advantage of ImageMagick (IMHO) is that it can make images out of PDFs. Many clients want thumbnails of their pdfs so that they can link to that.

So, I rather naively told File.php that .pdf files were Images, hoping that a thumbnail would just be created. Doh!

But I did copy a pdf as a png (ludicrous I know) and lo and behold the system made a thumb out of it and it worked.

I am therefore suggesting that if a pdf is uploaded, the upload system is arranged to make a png or jpg copy of the pdf and store that as well so it can be used for link purposes. I think this would a a popular idea. I will try to present an example myself.

Julian

By the way, is the correct syntax with ImageMagick config

YML:

Image:
backend: 'ImagickBackend'

or _config.php:

Image::set_backend('ImagickBackend');

When to use the different type of config and what the arguments might be as as clear as mud.