Image Handler 2 (for ZC v1.3.8 ONLY) Support

It would appear I had an old version of IH2 installed this whole time. Reading through the release notes of various versions I believe some of my problems might have been addressed if I had been using Rev 7 this whole time.

I've overwritten the original IH2 files with Rev 7 and this seemed to fix up the preview images and I think it would have also fixed my hover issues.

I still get some images working and some not though. I've tried to troubleshoot and figure out what's going on but nothing I'm doing is having any effect.

You can see it clearly on my specials page:
http://beta.buydentalequipment.com/cart/specials

Three images are missing the watermark and zoom + completely. If you view images on these it will point to the original image and not to the bmz_cache. Mousing over these images does produce the zoom however.

It seems to be random. Some categories are devoid of watermarks some are half and half and yet others have all their watermarks applied.

Also.. while notes in the various versions said that IH2 doesn't apply to the default no_image file it seems on mine it does.

Anthony Taylor
Webmaster
http://buydentalequipment.com

DivaVocals:

I've got to be honest.. I've NEVER been able to get the watermarking in IH2 to work correctly
I don't have a problem at all to watermark images.
Just set to yes for small, medium, and large and I get the watermark, and it even works with Zen Lightbox for large images.
In my live website they are set to "no" because I don't like the effect and don't care if somebody steals the images.
That's all I do, no special trick.

ckosloff:

I don't have a problem at all to watermark images.
Just set to yes for small, medium, and large and I get the watermark, and it even works with Zen Lightbox for large images.
In my live website they are set to "no" because I don't like the effect and don't care if somebody steals the images.
That's all I do, no special trick.

You kucky. I'm missing something...
do you have any IM ? or any IRC channel where to meet ?

I am experiencing a strange situation with IH2.

After choosing the category/sub-cat from the drop down box under Manager page, IH2 goes back to the Admin page? Also it is showing "* Product is disabled* for 2 sub-cats that I just added products to - so they are not "disabled."

A bit confused as to why IH2 is going back to the Admin page and why is it saying these 2 sub-cats have disabled products?

ckosloff:

I don't have a problem at all to watermark images.
Just set to yes for small, medium, and large and I get the watermark, and it even works with Zen Lightbox for large images.
In my live website they are set to "no" because I don't like the effect and don't care if somebody steals the images.
That's all I do, no special trick.Some of my clients do care about their photos being stolen (it happens A LOT in their industires). I'm gonna take another look at it, but even if I got the watermarking to work consistently, I don't like the way the IH2 watermarks look.. The batch watermarking software my clients use does a much nicer job..

DivaVocals:

Some of my clients do care about their photos being stolen (it happens A LOT in their industires). I'm gonna take another look at it, but even if I got the watermarking to work consistently, I don't like the way the IH2 watermarks look.. The batch watermarking software my clients use does a much nicer job..

You can customize the watermark image to look and say whatever you want.

Is there an issue with the latest version of Image handler and Printable pricelist?

kiddo:

You can customize the watermark image to look and say whatever you want.I know.. But it never looks as nice to me as the watermarking software I use.. Maybe I'll play around with it more on my test store this weekend..

DivaVocals:

Maybe I'll play around with it more on my test store this weekend..
You should.
Batch watermarking will not preserve your base image, it will be an irreversible change.
Just customize a nice transparent .png and with IH you can toggle on and off at will, change the image, etc., no changes are made to the base image.

ckosloff:

You should.
Batch watermarking will not preserve your base image, it will be an irreversible change.
Just customize a nice transparent .png and with IH you can toggle on and off at will, change the image, etc., no changes are made to the base image.Actually it does because the watermarked images are watermarked copies of the originals.. But I'll play around with IH2's watermarking again and see if I get a better result..

If your watermark contains text (like a web URL) and you make it a dark color, give the letters a faint outer glow of a light color. With this, your watermark will be readable over images that have both light and dark areas.

kiddo:

If your watermark contains text (like a web URL) and you make it a dark color, give the letters a faint outer glow of a light color. With this, your watermark will be readable over images that have both light and dark areas.
Nice tip.. duly noted..

tophand:

A corrupt image will do this.
Server timeout when processing a large image for IH will create a corrupt image.
Using ' " in the image description (Jon's Razor) can cause the page to break.
Using spacing in the file name also know to cause problem.

It's not a large image.. It was working before.. As a matter of fact, the problem seems to come and go.. The original file name, of the problem item now was: Pacific_5346e_sm.jpg

But doesn't IH2 rename everything? How can I determine what the IH2 names are?

Thanks
David

Does anyone have an idea as to why the test images have the full url, yet my admin previews of my product images do not?

Here is another example using firebug which shows the incomplete path.

DivaVocals:

Actually it does because the watermarked images are watermarked copies of the originals.. But I'll play around with IH2's watermarking again and see if I get a better result..
You stubborn lady.
You don't need to make copies if you use IH2 for that.

ckosloff:

You stubborn lady.
You don't need to make copies if you use IH2 for that.:laugh::laugh::laugh: Alright.. I'm going to take you and kiddo's word for this, and accept that it is something I've setup incorrectly.. I will be back to the test store to get this all hammered out..:smile:

Hi all!

Got a problem with zen cart 1.3.8a and image handler 2.0 rev7. I don't know why but there is no "/" in images path. So I get something like this:

src="bmz_cache992b24f702b35a5f51eb48bb664226f88.image.76x80.jpg"
instead of

src="bmz_cache/9/92b24f702b35a5f51eb48bb664226f88.image.76x80.jpg"

Image handler downloaded today from link : image_handler__for_vx_Ver2-0rev7.zip

Page address: http://www.forast.pl/

Any sollution?

I seem to be experiencing the issue described here. When I go to choose a cat or sub cat from the Manager page it goes back to the Admin page.

What can I do to fix this? Thank you in advance for all help.

I FINALLY figured out why IH2 wasn't applying watermarks to some images. It took me a long while banging my head against the wall. I already ran into one .png file that IH2 seemed to barf at but a reupload as jpg fixed it just fine. I never suspected what was wrong until I went to save one of the bad jpg's that wasn't getting watermarked.

Firefox wanted to save it as a gif. Sure enough all my pretty images that were name XXXXX.jpg were actually .gif's

I imaging IH2 tried to load up the image as a jpg.. that barfed.. so it decided to serve the original image. And thankfully Firefox and other browsers are forgiving about the extension and show them anyway.

It turns out a TON of images on my site are borked. I'll be spending a lot of time hunting down the originals and re-uploading.

Hopefully it helps someone.

Anthony Taylor
Webmaster
http://buydentalequipment.com

I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you're trying to say happened here, but it sounds like you had images of different filetypes for the SAME product. (ie: some images are PNGs and some are JPGs) If this is the case, you should go through the IH2 readme again.. There is a section in the readme where we've explicity included information about mixed file formats used as product images for a single product. All images for any single product MUST be the same file format.. Please review IH2 the readme for the details..

BTW, Firefox or any other browser does not dictate what file format your images are saved in.. The saving is all a function of IH2, the format is based on the images you've uploaded..

llynix:

I FINALLY figured out why IH2 wasn't applying watermarks to some images. It took me a long while banging my head against the wall. I already ran into one .png file that IH2 seemed to barf at but a reupload as jpg fixed it just fine. I never suspected what was wrong until I went to save one of the bad jpg's that wasn't getting watermarked.

Firefox wanted to save it as a gif. Sure enough all my pretty images that were name XXXXX.jpg were actually .gif's

I imaging IH2 tried to load up the image as a jpg.. that barfed.. so it decided to serve the original image. And thankfully Firefox and other browsers are forgiving about the extension and show them anyway.

It turns out a TON of images on my site are borked. I'll be spending a lot of time hunting down the originals and re-uploading.

Hopefully it helps someone.

Anthony Taylor
Webmaster
http://buydentalequipment.com