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Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Phill Mayer — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:30:34 -0000

I followed these instructions to get NETPBM working, but I messed up somewhere

Here is the mt-config:

ImageDriver NetPBM
NetPBMPath http://76.124.218.15:1226/cgi-bin/mt/netpbm

The NetPMB folder is in the cgi-bin\mt\forlder

IPC is in the mt/extlib folder
IPC is in the perl/site/lib folder
IPC is in the perl/lib folder

When I run perl -Iextlib -MIPC::Run -e 1
I get prototype mismatch errors

When I try to upload an image, I get no option to create a thumbnail.

What am I doing wrong?

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Justin Kalweit — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:15:32 -0000

Thanks, worked great on the jumpline redhat VDS servers!

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

aidan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:58:44 -0000

this worked perfectly, thanks!

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Niklas Bivald — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:16:08 -0000

When using NetPBM and png's you need to change line 1xx (122 I think) in Image.pm:

my %Types = (jpg => 'jpeg', gif => 'gif');

my %Types = (jpg => 'jpeg', gif => 'gif', png => 'png');

Otherwise you will might get a "file not found: /users/home/etc/netpbm/topnm"

http://forums.sixapart.com/... >

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

ulrika — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:04:34 -0000

Arrghhh
I used your instructions with ultimate succsess on my OLD MT installation.
Then I installed 3.2 and.....well Net Pbm DOES NOT work in that either....!! So I tried first with MT s soluton (only IPC) broken pipe- I did your solution with new files and all an I get broken pipe12. I really have tried everything, checked that I didn't di any mistakes in mt.cfg or whatever, and uploaded fresh files again in binary mode etc etc.
IS there anything else I could do?
Does NOBODY really know what is wrong? In this?
Hopeful
u

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Jane — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:59:01 -0000

At you the excellent site, a lot of useful info and good design, thank.

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Laurea — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:02:51 -0000

Your plug-in works great! I was able to install it successfully. Thanks for the tutorial!

I do wonder though if there is a way to customize NetPBM so that it generates the thumbnail image code and then *inserts the code into the entry* so that you don't have to to click "show me the html."

I know that clicking "create new entry" inserts the thumbnail image code into the entry, but lets say you want to upload multiple pictures into the same entry and you want the code for each thumbnail image you upload to be inserted into the entry.

Is there a way to customize NetPBM do what i described above?

A live example of this description would be in Typepad. When you insert an image in a post, the image code is inserted for you into the entry, and you can upload multiple images and Typepad continues to insert the image code for each image uploaded into the single entry.

I would appreciate any pointers or resources to check out.

Thanks!

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

sniptools — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:05:12 -0000

Nick, sure, you can link to the article and make the zipped file downloadable.

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Nick — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:31:26 -0000

Thank you so so much. It took some monkeying around but, I finally got the sucker installed right. I have two questions for you though:

1.) Are there any features in netpbm that will allow the user to look at a preview of the thumbnail before they upload it, I'd think it would be ideal to get a preview function, cause as it is now, I am really guessing on the right percentages of my thumbnails.

2.) Do you mind if I link to your downloads link to the netpbm zipped file, if you do would you mind if I uploaded the file to my own server and let them download it from there. Pretty much the situation is, I have just started messing around with MT and figured as I figured out certain things I'd post blog/tutorials on the very same blog I was working on. I'd give the link to this article if you wanted, I just wanted to get the ok, don't wanna step on anybody's toes.

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Nick G — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:30:16 -0000

Thank you so so much. It took some monkeying around but, I finally got the sucker installed right. I have two questions for you though:

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Mike — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:52:48 -0000

Still working like a champ!!! Had to do the IPC part, and it immediately fixed it!

Thanks a ton!

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

andy — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 04:01:34 -0000

Hey these instructions helped a lot. Thanks!

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Jay Brewer — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:43:32 -0000

Wow. This worked like a charm. The big thing - putting the two lines inthe mt.cfg file on two lines.

mageDriver NetPBM
NetPBMPath /cgi-bin/mt/netpbm

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Nidia Berenice — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:27:47 -0000

hello
your post are very coool
i install netpdm in 20 min.

works really good.

very thks.

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

George — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:57:40 -0000

Works like a charm. Thanks a lot! Great work.

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Mathieu — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:33:17 -0000

I seem to be getting the same error as Greenlander and sam !

I get the thumbnail option to show up now, but when I hit “popup” or “embed” the next screen I see is:
Broken pipe: write ((gibberish gibberish gibberish lots and lots of gibberish))
at extlib/IPC/Run/IO.pm line 582

Any thoughts for this unresolved problem?
Thanks a lot !

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Chris Henry — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:52:29 -0000

Excellent tutorial. Was able to get this up and running on my site in minutes, after spending hours tring to get ImageMagick to work.

Thanks a ton!

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

sniptools — Fri, 20 May 2005 16:47:25 -0000

Hi Runa,

Those are warnings rather than errors. Do they block NetPBM from working at all?

[Rant]This Socket.pm problem is one of the many reasons Perl is a PITA and many people use the ilk of PHP. [/Rant]

I frankly don't have time to help out any more, but a meaningless question - have you tried Image::Magick? It could be a lot simpler yet help you do whatever you want to do with NetPBM.

Shashank

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Runa — Sun, 08 May 2005 15:44:35 -0000

Hello Shashank:

Perl version: 5.8.6

--R.

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

sniptools — Sun, 08 May 2005 15:34:18 -0000

Hello Runa, what version of Perl are you using?

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Runa — Sun, 08 May 2005 10:16:24 -0000

Hello there Shashank:

I tried to install the NetPBM tool following your instructions but it does not work. I am running MT 3.16 with dynamic publishing on a Windows 2003 Server, running php.

In the mt.cfg file, here is what I have:

ImageDriver NetPBM
NetPBMPath /cgi-bin/mt/netpbm

Should I have uploaded the NetPBM files to /mt-static, which is outside the cgi-bin folder, instead of the above?

I have also uploaded the IPC files to:

/cgi-bin/mt/extlib/IPC

Then in /cgi-bin/mt/ I ran this command:

perl -Iextlib -MIPC::Run -e 1

and this is the error I get:

Prototype mismatch: sub Socket::IPPROTO_TCP > none at c:/Perl/lib/Socket.pm line 395.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Indebted to you.

--R.

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Alius Maximus — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:52:52 -0000

Hello Shashank and thanks for this usufull tutorial, I don't know if you still answer to the problems concerning this tutorial or not, but I have to try anyways!

I have done all what you said (except the 6th one because I don't have Shell access to my server), Now I can see thumbnail choice in upload image popup but when I click thumbnail it gives me this error message:

exec failed: Permission denied at lib/MT/Image.pm line 126 at lib/MT/Image.pm line 126 exec failed: Permission denied at lib/MT/Image.pm line 126 at lib/MT/Image.pm line 126

I saw that someone else had the same problem but couldn't find any answer from you in the comments. would be really gratefull if you can help me in this regard...

thanks again
cheers

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:57:54 -0000

Sorry, I meant when trying to access http://www.shrued.com/mt.cgi

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:57:11 -0000

My host said "netpbm is install and all commands are in /usr/local/bin," yet when I take out the #'s in the mt.cfg file, I receive the following when try to access mt.cfg.

Got an error: ./mt.cfg:317: variable 'NetPBM' not defined

What's that about?

Re: Thumbnailing with NetPBM and Movable Type

jummy — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:25:12 -0000

I'm utterly frustrated that your straightforward instructions don't seem to help me. I emailed you, Shanx, and I hope you have a chance to respond to me sometime soon.

Many thanks.