[magick-users] Draw Vector?

[Joost Saanen]

Hi Justin,

Maybe a solution is to use Illustrator as a kind of server application and 
integrate it in a workflow. It is possible to script Adobe Illustrator CS2 
(I think it was with JAVAscript).
I also think that it's possible to check if an image is valid vector art 
with Illustrator-scripting.

Hope it helps

greetings
Joost Saanen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Moore" <jklzz at ufl.edu>
To: <magick-users at imagemagick.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:45 PM
Subject: [magick-users] Draw Vector?


> Hi guys, in order for me to explain what I'm trying to do, allow me to 
> preface my question with a little bit of an explanation. I work for a 
> company that routinely receives image files from clients and then forwards 
> them to the manufacturer for enlarging and placing their company logo on 
> all manner of promotional items. As you can imagine, the logo needs to be 
> in vector format so that it can be resized to any resolution required by 
> the client. Currently if a file is sent in it gets forwarded to one 
> semi-technically inclined sales person who uses Adobe Illustrator to open 
> the file and use the "Show Lines" feature to verify that it is vector art. 
> As you can imagine this is a huge waste of time for this individual, but 
> we don't want to buy licenses for Illustrator for everyone in the office 
> simply so they can check if an image is valid vector art. Additionally, 
> the majority of the company is in sales, and is extremely computer 
> illiterate, so my boss asked me if I could come up with a way to check if 
> an image was in valid EPS format. Using image magick and a bash script 
> with a PHP front end I created a mechanism for the sales person to upload 
> the file to the server which would then tell the sales person if the file 
> was a valid EPS file or not and display a jpeg preview of the image on the 
> page. This worked well for a time, as the majority of files that weren't 
> vector art were simply jpegs that had been renamed to EPS, and ImageMagick 
> could easily tell the difference. However, it's come to my attention 
> recently that some of our clients are submitting logos in true EPS format, 
> but without any vector art, so the script detects it as valid EPS, which 
> is true, but since it isn't vector art the image is useless. I'm hoping 
> that there is a way to use ImageMagick to perform an action similar to the 
> "Show Lines" feature in Illustrator. That is to say that I would like for 
> IM to outline the vector lines in the image so the Sales Rep can verify 
> that it is in fact vector art. Is this possible? Also, the reason that I'm 
> not using the ImageMagick display utility is because to be quite honest 
> even a program as simple as the display utility is beyond most of the 
> sales team. Currently there is simply a bookmark on their desktop that 
> takes them directly to the site where they upload the image by clicking on 
> one button and it tells them the information that they need to know. 
> Thanks in advance!
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