[Terry HaleParticipant]

Robin, does the recent post regarding the alternate jpeg for vectors have anything to do with this? 🙂

Terry

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Thank you, Robin.  Looking forward to it.

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Cool, I hope someone finds it useful.  Got the idea for looking that up after seeing the option to disable the Woo updater prompt.

[Terry HaleParticipant]

All metadata had been importing successfully (ie, everything in Diagnostics checked out), but recently it stopped working.

Honestly, I don’t know what setting I changed back, but now the code above is pulling in the Category and assigning the images to the correct category ID in WordPress.  And keywords are translating to tags, etc.

Thanks for your continued positive feedback and support. 🙂

Terry

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Thanks, Robin. I will pass that along. I appreciate it!

Speaking as a developer of many years and seeing the gamut on experience vs complete illiteracy, shouldn’t there be a contingency plan (or code)?

Not knocking anything, of course. Just saying. 🙂 Again, what you and the team are doing is amazing. Keep up the great work.

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Thank you, Robin. Give everyone a big thumbs-up from all of us for all the hard work and great results. 🙂

[Terry HaleParticipant]

@mark I am getting the exact same thing. I’ve set permissions on the Symbiostock folder and everything beneath it to 0755.

What was your hosting provider solution?

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Thanks very much for the code pre-release!  I see what you are doing there.

At this point, that doesn’t seem to be working.  I’ve tried several different scenarios as below:

• With FINFO off and no arw MIME registerd in symbiostock.php:

Error(s): Failed to process file: LonghornsNearLLano1.arw. Unable to determine media type. | Failed to process file: LeopardInTheBrush1.arw. Unable to determine media type. (NO draft entries created.)

 

• With FINFO off and arw MIME is registered:

Same thing as above.

 

• With FINFO on and arw MIME is registered:

Error(s): Failed to read image for file: LeopardInTheBrush1.arw, product ID: 204259 | Failed to process file: LeopardInTheBrush1.arw | Failed to read image for file: LonghornsNearLLano1.arw, product ID: 204260 | Failed to process file: LonghornsNearLLano1.arw (Draft entries are created)

I installed ImageMagick on my PC and it converts .arw to .jpg or .png just fine, except they come out with a darker contrast with the default convert settings.  But that’s not an issue.

(three hours later…)

I thought I should just delete everything above since I figured out the problem, but I’ll leave it for search purposes.

I ran convert straight on my Ubuntu install.  After a lot of checking, turns out that the ufraw-batch delegate ImageMagick is looking for was not installed.  I guess that doesn’t come default with an ImageMagick install.

I installed the ufraw package from the command line with sudo apt-get install ufraw

Anyway, Symbiostock is now able to process the raw .arw files.  The color conversion sucks ha ha, but I see that UFRaw has color management with it, so I will see if I can update the delegate.xml file to include some commands for that.

Or try DCRaw as a delegate instead, although UFRaw apparently is based on DCRaw.

Anywho!!  Thanks very much Robin.  You are the best. 🙂

[Terry HaleParticipant]

OK, I see.  Thanks very much for the tip.  I just wasn’t looking on the main forum page!

I understand about bbPress, but I think after having tried out the search it will be very helpful.  I did find things I was looking for.

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Thanks Robin.  Just to play around, I added .arw as a MIME ‘image/x-sony-arw’ to WordPress and as an extra line in symbiostock.php.

I didn’t figure that would work (getting the “Failed to read” and “Failed to process” messages for two different ones), but it was a start taking a look at the files.

From what I can tell by browsing, ImageMagick will be able to convert RAW to JPG, but I assume that type of functionality would have to be added to the Symbiostock cron procedure before the rest of the processing can occur.

Would you be able to point me to which files specifically are involved in the cron processing?  I’m betting I could just add some code…  Fingers crossed, anyway.  🙂

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Based on the ownership command I gave, here are the rights to Symbiostock’s exiftool:

 

As I was saying, before this ownership change, the exif reading/writing did nothing.  After the above change, it reads exif.  Which is good enough.

Honestly, my next question about handling Sony RAW (.arw) files will hopefully garner more of your attention in the next couple of days.

Robin, your patience and enthusiasm is very much appreciated!!  I can’t say it enough. 😉

[Terry HaleParticipant]

I set ownership of the Symbiostock plugin folder to the WordPress user, so now turning <i>off</i> the force alternate (which means I guess I’m using ExifTool now) still comes back with read but not write.

I had actually installed exiftool and put it in the path on the server because I didn’t realize Symbiostock came with it.  I uninstalled it from the server, but same results.

But, that’s fine.  As long as I can read the EXIF, then all is good.

Thanks again, Robin.  I know we all appreciate the time you take to help 🙂

[Terry HaleParticipant]

The force alternative does immediately come back with the ability to read metadata.

I don’t really have a need to write metadata to the image itself, so that should be just fine.  As long as updates to the gallery/product will be written to the database for use in the site itself.

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Thanks Robin.

I actually meant I waited at least 30 minutes before giving up, not that it took that long.

I’ll take a look at shell_exec first, then at the alternative.

Edit: Oh yes, I did have a typo above.  I meant shell_exec.  And it shows as enabled on the Symbiostock settings page.

[Terry HaleParticipant]

Hey, good research Jamie!  Thanks for sharing the results with us.

Thanks also to George for the good ideas.  Hopefully I’ll be able to help more as I work with the tool. 🙂

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