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Creating thumbnails and previews for formats not natively supported by Index Manager

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Learn how to use ImageMagick to have Index Manager create thumbnails and previews for formats not natively supported.

Using ImageMagick

Learn how to use ImageMagick to create thumbnails and previews of image formats not natively supported by Index Manager.

  1. Download ImageMagick. You need the 64-bit Windows version with 8-bit processing. The Portable version (delivered as a zip file) works well without requiring installation.

Note: ImageMagick version 7 is not compatible with Index Manager and Color Factory.

  1. Navigate to the Index Manager program folder (typically in C:\Program Files\Fotoware\Index Manager) and create a new subfolder called ExternalConverter.
  2. Copy all the contents of the ImageMagick zip file to the ExternalConverter folder and restart the Index Manager service.
  3. Add the new file types to the FileTypes.xml file so that FotoWeb will recognize them. For more information, see Adding support for custom file types.

Index Manager will now call upon ImageMagick to create thumbnails and previews of image formats it does not natively recognize.