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Hello!

I am trying to setup TWG so my wife has a legitimate place to upload her embroidery designs (.pes) files to share to the world and I am having some problems I would like help with.

My first problem is that I cannot get her files to show up even after reading the HOWTOs and FAQ and setting the following:



Going to the TWG site where the designs are located only shows one .jpg file I uploaded (as a test) but does not show any of the PES files. There are 12 PES files and 1 JPG file, again, only the JPG shows up.

The other question I have is in regards to thumbnails for my PES files. I know there is no support for auto-creation of thumbnails by TWG or any php function so I would like to know if there is any way to upload files with a certain naming convention to the same folder as the PES files they are previews for. For example, if a PES file was named FILE1.PES, is there any way to upload a JPG file called THUMB_FILE1.PES in the same folder as the preview for FILE1.PES?

Thanks for the help Please don't be too rough if I missed something simple in the HOWTO

Hi,

firstly as you are aware of, the .PES format isn't an photo/image file so TWG isn't going to show anything in the gallery for that sort of file without some additional steps.

I made quick search on .PES tools and didn't see anything that would generate any sort of picture representation of the design. I guess that would be ideal since you could then represent the .pes files in TWG with a nice image which would facilitate downloading of the .PES file.

If you cannot find anything to automatically make images and/or thumbnails from the .PES files then you could simply make some with a camera.

If you did that, then you could upload the photos of the work as any other photo, to the gallery. Then you would only need to create a 'link' file for each of the photos (through TWGExplorer) to the corresponding .PES file -- similar to the external links that some of the Domai nudes use, linking to the Domai website.



Anyhow I think the stuff below will get something happening for you without worrying about any sort of more custom thumbnails and such.

Related default config.php stuff:


Keep in mind that is a watermark which is to be laid on top of an image, which you also need to make or use a pre-made one (MOD 2 below).

Anyhow, if you add the following to your my_config.php (manually or through the additional settings area of the admin panel) you'd retain the defaults plus add the one for the .pes files. I may be wrong but I think the line you had would reduce the 'other_file_formats' to just the one you have on that line.

MOD 1

NOTE: I used the "wm_mpg.png" file since the "wm_none.png" means kind of, just that.. show nothing. Until you make your own watermark.




Next there is (other related default config.php settings):



I have not tried this but it seems if you add the following (same as the other stuff above) to your my_config.php you'll have a blank box with the mpeg (wm_mpg.png used in MOD 1 above) watermark shown for your .PES files:

MOD 2


Note that in all the code blocks above I formatted them to look more clear. If you have problems saving the MOD 1 and 2 code as shown, using the 'Additional Settings' from the TWGExplorer then you will want to reformat them so they're each single lines.

IE: .. = array("avi" => "buttons/border.jpg","mpg" ... ,"pes" => "buttons/border.jpg");


With regard to you last question(s) -- What you're asking is more closely related to the custom stuff I breifly mentioned. I'll leave that for you to figure out if you like.

I had a nice long reply typed up with some screenshots but phpBB shot me down and I lost my reply and I don't want to retype all that.

Thanks for the help

Hehe, yeah I hate it when a web forum pulls that stuff. I've found that the best ways to handle that are:

A. use the preview message while composing every few minutes

and/or

B. before selecting post or anything after a long time typing, select all the message I am writing and copy to the clipboard first

"A" will keep the session alive during long typing/thinking posts and "B" will at least allow me to paste the text back into a reply if the session has timed out and I need to log back in..

At any rate I hope that my reply was able to help you get something working.