ImageMagick

So I want to use ImageMagick for my MediaWiki installation (right now, PNGs look icky when resized, like on this page). I tried just setting $wgImageMagickConvertCommand in the MediaWiki LocalSettings.php file to /usr/bin/convert, but it didn't seem to help. So I tried installing my own copy, but it doesn't seem to have the convert file (I think it's trying to put it in /usr/bin). I really can't tell if this is an issue with the DH setup, or with MediaWiki...

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This is due to the fact that mediawiki uses the default imagemagick settings. I would install your own copy and change the config to use -resize instead of using -scale. You can also improve the quality with the -quality flag.

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Can you give me an exact command for what I'd want to put into the shell? I'm a bit flustered with trying to compile ImageMagick right now.

Beyond the setup of IM itself, how would I get MediaWiki to look for the right things?

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Honestly, I'd have to look through the source as it has been a while since I have used MediaWiki. Give me about 15 minutes on this thread and check back. I'll take a look.

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In your Localsettings.php file where it uses:
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

Change it to:
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert -resize 25x25 -quality 75%";

Now that is just an example, this would make the size of the image a 25 width x 25 height and make the image 75% of its original quality.

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I think I found the problem; it actually wasn't ImageMagick's fault, nor was it anything incorrect with my MediaWiki configuration for it: It's that the installation is still using old thumbnails, and doesn't update them with the ImageMagick settings. I realized this when I looked at the file path for one of the thumbnails, tried renaming the file, and noticed that the server didn't regenerate it.

It looks like I won't need any fancy configuration options or setups after all. Lacking a better option for regenerating all the thumbnails, I simply deleted the thumb directory, and that seems to have set things straight. Not quite the solution I was expecting, but it's a solution nonetheless. :)

emufarmers.com
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Now I have one more issue: I want to adjust the quality of the thumbnails which ImageMagick generates, as you suggested. The thing is, if I try adding the line as you wrote it, the server won't generate any thumbnails: It thinks that the -quality stuff is part of the ImageMagick path, and gets confused! I thank you very much for your help, but I think I'm going to need you to revise it. ;)

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