All,
It turns out that this isn't an issue with Thumbnailer at all, but rather that the TMS thumbnail display control in Objects differs in size from the one in Media by 156 twips - approximately 3mm.
GS developers have been alerted to this and it will be fixed in an upcoming release. Thanks.
Danielle Uchitelle
Managing Director
Gallery Systems
261 W. 35th Street
New York, NY 10001-1902
Tel: 646 733 2239 x264
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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Oberoi, Shyam
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:24 AM
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Subject: Re: Thumbnailer woes...
Ryan, if you're already scripting part of this process you might want to consider bypassing the thumbnailer. For our DAM --> TMS integration we use ImageMagick to create a thumbnail of the image deployed from the DAM and then store that thumbnail BMP directly in the TMS DB (MediaRenditions)
ImageMagick:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
When we recently upgraded to TMS 9.35 we had an issue with our thumbnails not properly displaying in CR (probably not the same issue as you are having). Using IM, we run this command to create the thumbnail and it seems to work pretty well:
convert [sourceFile_jpg] -resize 192x192 -unsharp 1.5×1.0+1.5+0.02 -density 72 -depth 8 -colors 256 -strip [outputFile_bmp]
Shyam
Shyam Oberoi
Sr. Website Technology Manager
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ryan Donahue
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Thumbnailer woes...
For clarification, our DAM's generated thumbnails do not get imported
into TMS, they are regenerated by the Thumbnailer plug-in.
We could, theoretically, use the same thumbnail, but building that
bridge seems a like a lot more work than just generating new thumbnails.
The workflow is essentially:
<--Images---
TMS DAM
-----Data---->
The Images flow to TMS by the following:
0. Creation of collection in the DAM (DAM's "Object Package")
1. Export collection from DAM (to .CRE file, and asset action to
resize for TMS and store it in the proper location)
2. Convert Cumulus CRE file to format Media Loader can understand (via
excel import into the access DB)*
3. Run Media Loader plugin
4. Run Thumbnailer plugin
The data flows FROM TMS to the DAM
0. Create an object package of things that need data, or all data if
its a total refresh
1. SQL call to a view on the DB, which gets exported as a delimited
file [we often move 10,000 objects at a time.. too big for object
packages in our experience].
2. Convert SQL output to .CRE*
3. Import CRE into DAM to update necessary records.
To seamlessly integrate this workflow, we had to develop a cohesive
file naming scheme that is an extension of our accessing scheme.
Its certainly not without pain, but it didn't cost us a ton of money
either.
If anyone is interested in what we did in more detail, I'd be happy to
share what I can.
-Thanks
Ryan
*Using an internally developed data migration tool.
Ryan Donahue
Manager of Information Systems
George Eastman House
International Museum of Photography and Film
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On Jun 19, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Chad Petrovay wrote:
> If you DAMS is auto-generating the thumbnails, what is their length
> on the long side?
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> Chad Petrovay | Collections Database Administrator
> MIM-Musical Instrument Museum | 8550 S. Priest Drive | Tempe, AZ
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> http://www.petrovay.com/tmsblog
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> From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> ] On Behalf Of Ryan Donahue
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Thumbnailer woes...
>
> So we've worked out a lot of the kinks in our workflow between our
> DAM and TMS for image exchange.. we have the DAM exporting asset
> information into csv, from which it flies to TMS via the Media
> Loader plugin.. but we've noticed that our thumbnails are getting
> slightly cut off on the right edge.. it appears that the thumbnail
> is not cut off, but display in the data entry window is a bit.. it
> doesn't seem to be an issue with our old thumbnails.. any thoughts?
>
> -Thanks
> Ryan Donahue
> Manager of Information Systems
> George Eastman House
> International Museum of Photography and Film
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