History: Media Alchemyst

            {syntax type="markdown"  editor="wysiwyg"} Tiki is progressively adding support for more media types via https://packagist.org/packages/media-alchemyst/media-alchemyst

Media Alchemyst is installable as one of the ((packages)). See also: ((unoconv)).



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## Setup process

### Ubuntu

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-2
sudo apt install libreoffice
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install unoconv
sudo apt-get install ghostscript
sudo apt-get install php-imagick
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
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See also ((Ubuntu Install))

## The location of the path settings if needed

Admin > File Galleries > General Settings

Settings for Media Alchemyst (with default):

ffmpeg path - /usr/bin/ffmpeg 
ffprobe path - /usr/bin/ffprobe 
unoconv path - /usr/bin/unoconv 
ghostscript path - /usr/bin/gs 
Alchemy Image library - ImageMagick

## Document to Image issues

The Imagemagick security policy prevents PDF to image conversion.

In `/etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml` file, just before `` add the following line. {CODE(colors="shell")}
<policy domain="coder" rights="read | write" pattern="PDF" />
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