Thumbnails for PSD (Adobe Photoshop) files

[Ron.Cri...@gmail.com]

Two questions here.
1. Anyone know of a graphics library, besides ImageMagick, that works
with PSD files?
2. Any idea how hard it would be to swap in a different graphics
library?

98% of our artwork is in PSD format so this is critical for me.

Thanks again,
-Ron

[dan...@gmail.com]

Out of interest why not ImageMagick?

It is open source and can handle a lot more types that GD. If you need
to move beyond JPEG, GIF and PNG and still stay open source then AFAIK
it's your only choice.

I don't think it would be a massive job to move to another library,
all the image processing functions are in "image_processing.php" which
is quite a small file.

Dan

[Ron.Cri...@gmail.com]

Because we're already looking at it. I just wanted to know if there
were any others out there. Part of my job is evaluating the different
options.

[Ron.Cri...@gmail.com]

Just a followup. I've been trying to get MagicWand (PHP api for
ImageMagick) to work and have run into issues. MagicWand coughs up a
hairball if you try to work with a PSD file that has layers. I'll
followup if we figure out a solution.

[Ron.Cri...@gmail.com]

Another follow up. Since InstantMagick isn't working I'm trying
something different. Found a guy (http://www.kingsquare.nl/
phppsdreader) who wrote a PHP class for converting PSDs to JPGs. Now
I'm trying to integrate it into RS. I'm seeing a *pre.jpg and
*thm.jpg being created in the filestore but their still not displaying
in the app. More debugging to do. :)

[dan...@gmail.com]

Very interesting. Adding PSD support to the ResourceSpace base would
be great. Let me know how you get on.

By the way what licence is the phppsdreader class released under?

Dan