Image-Dired thumbs issue

Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Corey Foote]

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Hi everybody,





I'm having some trouble getting Image-Dired to run. I
installed ImageMagick and put the program folder in my path environment variable.
I'm able to invoke both convert and mogrify from the command line, but when I
try to run Image-Dired by by typing M-x
image-dired I get a message saying, "Thumb could not be created for file..."
Any suggestions? 

I'm running GNU GNU
Emacs 22.1.50.1 under Windows XP. - Corey Foote
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Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Juanma Barranquero]

> I'm having some trouble getting Image-Dired to run. I installed ImageMagick
> and put the program folder in my path environment variable. I'm able to
> invoke both convert and mogrify from the command line, but when I try to run
> Image-Dired by by typing M-x image-dired I get a message saying, "Thumb
> could not be created for file..." Any suggestions?

Did you try setting the several image-dired-*-program variables to the
paths of your ImageMagick executables?

Note that, on Windows XP, the convert.exe that first appears in the
PATH is often a system utility to convert FAT partitions to NTFS.

   Juanma

RE: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Corey Foote]

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No luck. I set them and it still doesn't work. :-(

(setq image-dired-cmd-create-temp-image-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
(setq image-dired-cmd-create-thumbnail-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
(setq image-dired-cmd-pngcrush-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
(setq image-dired-cmd-pngnq-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
(setq image-dired-cmd-rotate-original-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
(setq image-dired-cmd-rotate-thumbnail-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
(setq image-dired-cmd-write-exif-data-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")


> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:55:06 +0200
> From: lekktu@gmail.com
> To: coreyfoote@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > I'm having some trouble getting Image-Dired to run. I installed ImageMagick
> > and put the program folder in my path environment variable. I'm able to
> > invoke both convert and mogrify from the command line, but when I try to run
> > Image-Dired by by typing M-x image-dired I get a message saying, "Thumb
> > could not be created for file..." Any suggestions?
> 
> Did you try setting the several image-dired-*-program variables to the
> paths of your ImageMagick executables?
> 
> Note that, on Windows XP, the convert.exe that first appears in the
> PATH is often a system utility to convert FAT partitions to NTFS.
> 
>    Juanma

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RE: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Corey Foote]

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Are there any Windows users out there who wouldn't mind posting the relevant portion of their .emacs files to the list so I can see how this is done? Thanks!

- Corey

________________________________
> From: coreyfoote@hotmail.com
> To: lekktu@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:27:32 -0400
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: Image-Dired thumbs issue
> 
> No luck. I set them and it still doesn't work. :-(
> 
> (setq image-dired-cmd-create-temp-image-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-create-thumbnail-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-pngcrush-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-pngnq-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-rotate-original-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-rotate-thumbnail-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-write-exif-data-program "c:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> 
> 
>> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:55:06 +0200
>> From: lekktu@gmail.com
>> To: coreyfoote@hotmail.com
>> Subject: Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue
>> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>>> I'm having some trouble getting Image-Dired to run. I installed ImageMagick
>>> and put the program folder in my path environment variable. I'm able to
>>> invoke both convert and mogrify from the command line, but when I try to run
>>> Image-Dired by by typing M-x image-dired I get a message saying, "Thumb
>>> could not be created for file..." Any suggestions?
>>
>> Did you try setting the several image-dired-*-program variables to the
>> paths of your ImageMagick executables?
>>
>> Note that, on Windows XP, the convert.exe that first appears in the
>> PATH is often a system utility to convert FAT partitions to NTFS.
>>
>> Juanma
> 
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Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Kevin Rodgers]

Allan wrote:
> The workaround, which is basically unsatisfactory, is to place the
> ImageMagick binaries folder/directory as the first item in the `PATH'
> environment variable. The problem is that if you do this you cannot use the
> Windows XP "convert" built-in command. You might be able to get around
> this with commands such as "set path=%path%;<my folder>" but it will
> only work within a command window temporarily.
> In my case once I tried the workaround I changed it back to the
> default `PATH' environment variable setting. 

Why not try leaving your PATH environment variable as is, and adding the
ImageMagick bin directory to the front of the Emacs exec-path variable?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

RE: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Corey Foote]

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Kevin,

For all the newbies out there (like myself) how would one do that?

Thanks!

- Corey

> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:44:20 -0600
> Subject: Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue
> 
> Allan wrote:
> > The workaround, which is basically unsatisfactory, is to place the
> > ImageMagick binaries folder/directory as the first item in the `PATH'
> > environment variable. The problem is that if you do this you cannot use the
> > Windows XP "convert" built-in command. You might be able to get around
> > this with commands such as "set path=%path%;<my folder>" but it will
> > only work within a command window temporarily.
> > In my case once I tried the workaround I changed it back to the
> > default `PATH' environment variable setting. 
> 
> Why not try leaving your PATH environment variable as is, and adding the
> ImageMagick bin directory to the front of the Emacs exec-path variable?
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers
> Denver, Colorado, USA
> 
> 
> 

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RE: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Corey Foote]

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Here's another possible solution. Write a program and put it in your path that will:

if (the calling program is emacs) {
   run image magick
}
else {
   run the windows convert command
}

Just a thought.

> From: mu8ja0i@earthlink.net
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:58:34 -0500
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue
> 
> Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
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> >
> >
> > Are there any Windows users out there who wouldn't mind posting the
> > relevant portion of their .emacs files to the list so I can see how
> > this is done? Thanks!
> The workaround, which is basically unsatisfactory, is to place the
> ImageMagick binaries folder/directory as the first item in the `PATH'
> environment variable. The problem is that if you do this you cannot use the
> Windows XP "convert" built-in command. You might be able to get around
> this with commands such as "set path=%path%;<my folder>" but it will
> only work within a command window temporarily.
> In my case once I tried the workaround I changed it back to the
> default `PATH' environment variable setting. 
> 
> -- 
> Allan

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Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Juanma Barranquero]

> For all the newbies out there (like myself) how would one do that?

You can add this to your .emacs:

(add-to-list 'exec-path "C:/my/imagemagick/path")

for example.

  Juanma

Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[Juanma Barranquero]

> No luck. I set them and it still doesn't work. :-(
>
> (setq image-dired-cmd-create-temp-image-program "c:/Program
> Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-create-thumbnail-program "c:/Program
> Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-pngcrush-program "c:/Program
> Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-pngnq-program "c:/Program
> Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-rotate-original-program "c:/Program
> Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-rotate-thumbnail-program "c:/Program
> Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")
> (setq image-dired-cmd-write-exif-data-program "c:/Program
> Files/ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16/convert.exe")

Hm, I don't think all those programs should be convert.exe; take a
look at the start of image-dired.el.

Anyway, what exactly is the error you're seeing?

  Juanma

Re: Image-Dired thumbs issue

[David Combs]

In article <mailman.12728.1212723882.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Rodgers  <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
>Allan wrote:
>> The workaround, which is basically unsatisfactory, is to place the
>> ImageMagick binaries folder/directory as the first item in the `PATH'
>> environment variable. The problem is that if you do this you cannot use the
>> Windows XP "convert" built-in command. You might be able to get around
>> this with commands such as "set path=%path%;<my folder>" but it will
>> only work within a command window temporarily.
>> In my case once I tried the workaround I changed it back to the
>> default `PATH' environment variable setting. 
>
>Why not try leaving your PATH environment variable as is, and adding the
>ImageMagick bin directory to the front of the Emacs exec-path variable?
>
>-- 
>Kevin Rodgers
>Denver, Colorado, USA
>
>
>

Please, could you say a few words about when to hack PATH vs exec-path?

(Is this true:

"PATH" controls the entire computer -- everyone looks at it,

whereas exec-path is seen only by emacs?)

That, plus some discussion of when to do each one?

Thanks!,

David