I guess we're getting to that time where every module is starting to get an issue like this in its queue.

I was wondering if there were any plan for a 7.x port of the module? If there are no plan yet, I would be willing to take a crack at it. I happen to have some time off of work coming up, and I really like the idea of this module. But if someone has already started, I don't want to be redoing their work or stepping on anyone's toes. Let me know.

-Josh

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JoshOrndorff’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » JoshOrndorff

I'm assigning this task to myself. I've been working on the code for almost a week and its at a 'barely working point'. Hopefully I'll have something to put up for testing in another week or so.

Also, Peritus, In order to become co-maintainer and get a cvs account, I need you to publicly accept me as co-maintainer as per http://drupal.org/cvs-application/requirements So if you could just add a comment here accepting me, that would help move things along :) Thanks a lot!

7.x is on the way,
-Josh

plastikkposen’s picture

+1

JoshOrndorff’s picture

Hey plastikkposen, Do you have any coding ability? I was going strong for a while, and got stalled trying to figure out the new fields api. Some of the stuff with implementing formatters is quite a bit different and I couldn't find the docs I needed. My tentative plan was to wait and see what better docs became available.

-Josh

basicmagic.net’s picture

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JoshOrndorff’s picture

Since this is still assigned to me, and I haven't found any other good way of thumbnailing pdfs, I guess I should get back to working on it. There is a lot more experience around the community with the D7 api now, so I think I might be able to make more progress.

After thinking about this for a while, I think I like the idea of changing the architecture a little bit though. Rather than creating a filefield widget, I would prefer to create an imagfield widget so that it would be more of an image-from-pdf approach than a pdf-to-image approach.

Does anyone have any input on that?

-Josh

JoshOrndorff’s picture

I see now that there is a new maintainer for the project. Dman, what do you think about this thread? Do you have any plans of your own for a port?

-Josh

Strutsagget’s picture

Subscripe +1

Tell me if you need help :)

R.J. Steinert’s picture

The fileviewer module has made some progress on a D7 version. It uses poppler as opposed to Image Magick. I haven't checked it out but the processing approach in PDF To Imagfield WAY better than the fileviewer-6.x-1.x approach. Ideally, I think PDF to Imagefield should be the module to process files while Fileviewer should drop it's processing and just be a Field Display. Perhaps there is room for some collaboration here between the two modules?

teamA’s picture

My use for this is a company that has a number of sales brochures that they want to make accessible to their customers. To my mind a file field widget is the way to go, as far as my use is concerned. I need a a visual asset for a File I am making available to download. Even if my client wanted to allow viewing the entire PDF as images on their site, I would encourage them to make the PDF available for download.

Making the widget an image field seems to confuse the issue a bit. If a user really doesn't need the PDF online, they should have a workflow to make the images on their own and upload the images.

Excited to get to use this. Any word on the status? I know a bit of PHP, but have no experience developing modules for D7 - happy to take a look if you think I can help.

Aris

dman’s picture

I'll spend an hour on it now, see if progress is possible.
(If you get no updates in the next day, I probably found it too hard for now)

dman’s picture

I branched a d7 -dev in git, did as much automated upgrade as possible, renamed a few dependencies that were needed, but needs more work to even get the widget settings to save. Nothing usable yet, but if anyone wants to try to help, please take it from the git d7-dev, not a direct port.
Definitely 'needs work'

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