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generating pages on jpg with limited user intervention

asked on April 7, 2016

Hi!

i have an issue with how Laserfiche handles .jpg files.

We are using WebDAV so another program can see some files.

i've noticed that when a jpg gets converted into a tiff on import it shows up in WebDAV as an empty file.

If i import .jpg's as an electronic file, they work fine in WebDAV, but i lose the thumbnail/preview capability in the LF client.

(Honestly, i think not being able to preview a .jpg is a bit annoying considering how widely used the format is)

anyway, if i import the files without conversion and then 'generate pages' it all works well.

My problem now is, how do i automate or streamline the process to generate the pages?

it seems to use windows default program (in my case its windows photo viewer) to print to the snapshot printer.

This requires several steps for each and every file.  The customer can import 20 or more pictures in a group, so this makes a painfully long procedure.

They also have several thousand pictures already imported.

 

Can anyone think of a way to do this in a batch or workflow?

or at lease be able to select a group of .jpg's and process the all the same in one go.

Electronic documents like .PDF's can be set to generate pages on import, but with .jpg's i loose the option.

 

Thanks

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replied on April 28, 2016

Hi!

It seems what i was hoping to do may not be possible.

Anyway, the solution we have settled on, is to have the photos as .jpg. The users just have to switch back and forward between the 'details' and 'thumbnail' view depending on what job they are doing.

It's a bit of a pain for them, but i can't find a better way of doing it.

The thing that confuses me is that LF can show you a thumbnail of the .jpg, but not a preview of it.

I think this should be looked into for future updates. To expand the preview functionality to cover such common formats as .jpg and a few others.

 

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replied on April 29, 2016

One option is to import the images as LF pages (so the document has no electronic file yet) and use a Workflow script activity to copy the LF page to also be the electronic document.

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