I hope I am not becoming a pain. I did a search, several actually, and could not find the solution to my query.

I seem to remember that glFusion automatically renders images in thumbnail form, which precludes the use of animated gifs.

Is there a way to enable animated gifs, such as with forum avatars and topic images?

Thanks for all the help I have received from this community.

Actually, if you are using the Graphics Driver ImageMagick, then animated gifs will retain their animation in the automatic thumbnails or resized images. The other 2 graphic drivers (GD libs and NetPBM) do not support animated gifs.

Check with your hosting provider to see if ImageMagick is available (usually it is) and ask where the convert binary is stored (we'll need to know the directory). Then you can change the glFusion configuration to use ImageMagick and keep those animated gifs!

Thanks!
Mark

Hi Mark,

I installed both GD2 and ImageMagick on my server, and I have the configuration set to use imagemagic. I thought I might have the path wrong, I had /usr/bin/convert, but it might have been /usr/local/bin/ neither of those works. so, I went back to root and discovered that my install, even though it said installed ok, had failed. I think the configure did not run first so I will have to poke around and see where it really went...do some clean-up and start all over.

Thanks Mark, your suggestion pointed me in the right direction.

An update...ImageMagick is fixed. The problem was with the configuration of ImageMagick. I was correct. Apparently the install ran first, and not everything was installed.

However, I have a problem with spamx now. It is deleting some of the gif files as spam. Is this a normal behavior for spamx? If so, is there a work around?

Thanks, as usual, for all your help.

I'm not sure why Spamx would be blocking the gifs. Check the spamx log (using Logviewer from the Command & Control screen) and let's see if it gives a reason. Once we know that, we can probably create a whitelist entry or something to stop it from blocking.

Thanks!
Mark

This is what the logview has to say about the spamx entry...[Sun 07 Feb 2010 12:29:53 CST - Found Spam Post matching Spam Link Verification (SLV) posted by user 3 from IP xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Sun 07 Feb 2010 12:29:53 CST - Deleted Spam Post ]. There was no corresponding entry in the error log.

I tried a different gif and it uploaded without a problem. Then I checked the original gif for any steganographic information. It was clean.

It looks like the SLV (Spam Link Verification) module is blocking the request. Basically what this module does is send the text of the post to www.linksleeve.org. It takes a bit of text, extracts any urls, checks against a database of recently added urls across the web, and determines if a reasonable threshold has been exceeded.

We actually have that module disabled here and haven't had any issues, so you might want to try disabling it as well and see if that solves the problem. To disable it, you'll need to remove all the SLV* files from the private/plugins/spamx/ directory (I created a directory called disabled and move the files there).

Thanks!
Mark

Thanks, Mark.

That solved the problem.

Except for the animated gifs, I am not sure if imagemagick lives up to its name, though. I think I like the way GD2 handles static images better. Oh well, I guess life is full of compromises.

Thank you, again.