History: Media Alchemyst

Source of version: 11 (current)

Tiki is progressively adding support for more media types via https://packagist.org/packages/media-alchemyst/media-alchemyst

Media Alchemyst is installable as one of the ((packages)). See also: ((unoconv)).

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!! Setup process
!!! Ubuntu
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2
sudo apt install libreoffice
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install unoconv
sudo apt-get install ghostscript
sudo apt-get install php-imagick
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
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See also ((Ubuntu Install))

!! The location of the path settings if needed
Admin > File Galleries > General Settings

Settings for Media Alchemyst (with default):

ffmpeg path - /usr/bin/ffmpeg
ffprobe path - /usr/bin/ffprobe
unoconv path - /usr/bin/unoconv
ghostscript path - /usr/bin/gs
Alchemy Image library - ImageMagick
  
!! Document to Image issues
The Imagemagick security policy prevents PDF to image conversion.
In -+/etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml+- file, just before -+</policymap>+- add the following line.
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<policy domain="coder" rights="read | write" pattern="PDF" />
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