Providence 1.7 pdfs can't see in viewers

sarahs

<font face="Arial, Verdana">Windows 2012/IIS 8.5/php7</font>

<font face="Arial, Verdana">Uploading pdfs from scratch in 1.7,  I get the small preview images that ghostscript makes,   but nothing is loading in the viewer.  It will download the original file from the edit page, but not the viewer. </font>

I've alternated using the don't use imagemagick and zendpdf in the app.conf

Looking in the media folder,  I can see the various large, mediumlarge, medium, small,  page etc  images for that pdf. 

I've tried the default mirador which just loads blank.   UniversalViewer tries to load and says not found.  TileViewer will show the first page,  but obviously it's not an option to use. . 

when I add   use_universal_viewer_for_image_list_length_at_least = 3  in the media_display,  I get this error: 

2017-05-02 16:21:10 - ERROR --> ApplicationException: Invalid viewer

Any suggestions are appeciated. 

conf:

Gmagick Provides image processing and conversion services using ImageMagick via the PECL Gmagick PHP extension

Didn't load because Gmagick is not available

RAW image support is not enabled because DCRAW cannot be found

Not available GraphicsMagick Provides image processing and conversion services using GraphicsMagick via exec() calls

Didn't load because Imagick is available and preferred

Not used ImageMagick Provides image processing and conversion services using ImageMagick via exec() calls to ImageMagick binaries

Didn't load because GraphicsMagick is available and preferredDidn't load because Imagick is available and preferred

Not used Imagick Provides image processing and conversion services using ImageMagick via the PECL Imagick PHP extension

RAW image support is not enabled because DCRAW cannot be found

Available Mesh Accepts files describing 3D models Available Office Accepts and processes Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint format documents

LibreOffice cannot be found: conversion to PDF and generation of page previews will not be performed; you can obtain LibreOffice at http://www.libreoffice.org/</div></td> <td> Available

PDFWand Provides PDF conversion services using ImageMagick or the Zend_PDF library. Will use Ghostscript to generate image-previews of PDF files.

PDFMiner cannot be found: indexing of text locations in PDF files will not be performed; you can obtain PDFMiner at http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html</div></td> <td> Available

QuicktimeVR Provides services for processing of QuicktimeVR files Available Spin360 Accepts ZIP archives containing 360 spinnable images in SpinCar format (http://SpinCar.com) Available Video Provides ffmpeg-based video processing

MediaInfo will be used to extract metadata from video files.

Available XMLDoc Accepts and processes XML-format documents Available BinaryFile Accepts any file unrecognized by other media plugins and stores it as-is Not available

seth

Do you have a custom media_processing.conf file?

sarahs

I've tried leaving as is and also thought maybe it needed the tiles and tried adding the tilepic to the pdf processing,  but that creates an error. ("File could not be processed for media; can't convert mimetype 'image/tilepic' to extension") 

It's also not picking up the OCR. 

All the other files,  excepting word docs (after adding LibreOffice),  seem to work in the viewers. 

I've also double-checked through all the files mentioned in the windows specific installation to replace the /dev/null.  

I also just switched to the 1.7.1 just to see and there's no difference. 

seth

Did this work in 1.6?

sarahs

Yes--It was all working on 1.6.  If I go back to 1.6 (on the same server) even with php 7 it still works. 

seth

You might want to try reprocessing all PDF media using caUtils. I suspect the previews are missing is the problem, but I'm not sure as any new files should have them.

sarahs

It's making all the files that I can see.  I've attached a screenshot below.  

I have it picking up the ocr now(had the path with backslashes).  

How do you run caUtils in windows?

sarahs

Running caUtils reprocessing the media got rid of the unknown object error,  but now the viewer tries to load and just freezes in chrome or spins forever in firefox.

brucek

I just noticed that when I upload pdf's now, they upload as Format:Binary File.

...and they also do not show in the viewer...anymore

Bruce

sarahs

I had that happen once as I was switching from imagemagick to graphicsmagick--I had forgotten to change the environmental variable of MAGICK_HOME to graphicsmagick.   That fixed it for me.  

Still no luck on the pdfs.  Wish I knew what files it was looking for so I know if they are being made...

szablac

I am experiencing the same: I get "Not found" message, then spinning forever both in Firefox and in Chrome, and not loading pdf. However the site is on Whirl-i-Gig's server.

seth

Lazlo: send me examples of where this is happening on your site and we'll try to resolve it. 

Bruce: if PDFs are being picked up as binary files, it means you have binary enabled but PDF disabled. Look at the system configuration screen and try to figure out why the PDF processing plugin is not available.

Sarahs: The IIIF viewers (Mirador and UniversalViewer) are trying to load tiles via the IIIF server that is built into CA. They're not trying to load actual files from disk. If the tile response is not what they expect (Eg. the info for the PDF indicates no tiles are available) both viewers tend to behave badly. Try editing media_display.conf to use another viewer for PDFs. If it's set to UniversalViewer (looks like that in your screen shots) try Mirador. 

If that doesn't help, please send me a sample PDF or two and I'll test it and attempt to get to the bottom of all of this.

sarahs

I've tried both Mirador and UniversalViewer.  The only one I can get to work is the TileViewer.  I've tried uploading to the demo to see if was anything with my particular files, and it didn't have any issues.   

Milo

I'm having the same problems with PDFs as Sarah.  I've tried changing between Mirador, UniversalViewer, and TileViewer.  TileViewer will show the first page of the PDF as just a jpg.  When clicking on the download icon a jpg 72px x 72px gets downloaded.  When trying Mirador and UniversalViewer the metadata info loads, but the respective viewers end up freezing the browser (Firefox + Chrome.)

seth

Milo, whar version of CA are you running?

bowbot

<font face="Arial, Verdana">How did this all shake out for everyone did it resolve?</font>

<font face="Arial, Verdana">I am having similar issues as documented here: </font>

<font face="Arial, Verdana">http://www.collectiveaccess.org/support/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/299156/pdf-previews-not-generating-or-displaying-correctly#latest</span><br/></font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;">

Have confirmed all the libraries are in place form the cookbook here:

<font face="Arial, Verdana">http://docs.collectiveaccess.org/wiki/Cookbook_Chapter_7:_Media_Processing#No_PDF_Previews</span></font><br/></div></div></div>

sarahs

It hasn't for me.   There was also someone on the chat room that had the same problem last month (both of us were using windows server 2012 R2 --using both apache and iis).  They said they'd look into it, but it was right before the holidays so they probably haven't had a chance yet.  

msjonesking

Does anyone know if this has been resolved? My version of providence isn't recognizing PDFs for me either but instead taking them in as binary files even though in my configuration binary files seem to be disabled. (screenshots of configuration attached)

sarahs

My issue hasn't. I've brought it up on the chat a few times and they've started working on it, but haven't had a chance to get to it yet. I recently reminded them.

It sounds like you have a slightly different issue. I've had some pdfs that were badly formed that it would only take as binary files. When I ran accessiblity fixes and saved as pdf/a, it would then take them. I have it now where it will extract the text, create a thumbnail, but the viewer doesn't work.

msjonesking

Interesting. I've never gotten a viewer or a thumbnail to work. I'll play around with reformatting pdfs and see if that helps.