Watermark problems. Tried everything....

SIINSI · March 19th, 2006, 08:26 PM

Hello,

I am using GD2 for processing. I do not want on-the-fly watermarking...

I'll run through all scenarios so maybe you can help.

On-The-Fly: Disabled
Watermark: Enabled
Watermark Path is set like: /home/me/ads/watermark.png

I am using a .png file and nothing shows up at all.

Now is I do it like this....

On-The-Fly: Enabled
Watermark: Enabled
Watermark Path is set like: /home/me/ads/watermark.png

Then the watermark shows up BUT, then there is a javascript error on page when there is more than one photo on an ad. It will not allow you to go through the rest of the pictures. Just says "error on page" on the bottom of IE.

I have not changed any files at all and like I said, I DO NOT want on the fly, I want all images watermarked.

I even tried changing the watermark path to http://www.blahblah.png and that did not work.

Something is surely fishy though becuase I am 100% getting a jscript error with on-the-fly enabled.

Thanks,
Miguel

Chuck S · March 23rd, 2006, 05:44 AM

well would need more info to comment about some java error as I am not seeing that but as far as normal watermarking versus on the fly to use permanent watermarking you must select in Admin => Edit Categories which usergroups you want to have images be watermarked before it would watermark an image

SIINSI · March 24th, 2006, 03:45 AM

OK, I edited categories and now it does in fact watermark BUT, it only watermarks the FIRST image. If there are more images, they DO NOT get watermarked.

Also, If I enable on-the-fly, it will not let you click on any other pics to preview them. It definitely says javascript error when you click on other pics. However, if I click SUPERSIZE it works correctly and is watermarked on-the-fly.

My files are unmodified completely.

So basically....

Perm watermark = Only watermarks first image

On-the-fly = Not let you click on any other images EXCEPT supersize.

Edit: This is the exact error when enabling on-the-fly and trying to click on other pics...

Quote:

Line: 210
Char: 2
Error: 'document.rpPic' is null or not an object
Code: 0

Thanks,
Miguel

Chuck S · March 24th, 2006, 06:42 AM

Thumbnails are not watermarked ever

on the fly watermarks yes is incompatible with the auto update function on showphoto no known fix for this but I do not get a java error rpPic is just null

As far as watermarking more than the first image I need to look at how the watermarking is done cause it looks like the code has never watermarked more than the first image

SIINSI · March 24th, 2006, 11:27 AM

I'm not talking about thumbnails at all.

What happens to you if you enable on the fly and have more than one pic? Can you see them all when you click on them? I can't. If I disable on the fly, voila.... back to normal. The error is not very obvious, it is just the little message on the bottom on Internet Explorer that says "Error on Page" but, it does not work. I'm sure of it

Only watermarking one image kinda defeats the purpose of having a watermark altogether.

BTW: My files are untouched.

Thanks,
Miguel

Chuck S · March 24th, 2006, 11:54 AM

I can see all thumbnails fine. What I am saying is using ON THE FLY watermarking makes the pic switcher java DEAD. I get no java issues here but it is a known thing. Using on the fly watermarks has always made the pic switcher thing unoperational because using watermark.php MASKS the image path so you can not switch the image

I was wrong about the watermarking it watermarks all pictures. I am using a clean classifieds here and I at first agreed with you but realized the 2-6 pics where bigger so the watermark is small and I could not see it. I uploaded a test and the watermark definately appears on the pics

http://www.reeftalk.com/classifieds/...hp?product=116

SIINSI · March 24th, 2006, 01:00 PM

OK.... It is working on all photos. I couldn't see it until I ulpoaded new photos, even though I rebuilt everything.

BUT, now I guess it brings me to a new problem. Why is the watermark so small? I just uploaded a new LARGER one and it still shows tiny on the images. Almost unreadable.

Whoa!! and just noticed the thumbnails ARE watermarked?? Wierd stuff going on here....

http://www.jdmpartfinder.com/ads/index.php Look at the thumbnails at the bottom of the page.

Chuck S · March 24th, 2006, 01:46 PM

Did you upload files that where already watermarked?

The thumbnail is processed and made on upload before the image is watermarked so unless you did something like that thumbnails would not be watermarked

SIINSI · March 24th, 2006, 02:45 PM

No but, I did rebuild everything. Would that do that?

Chuck S · March 24th, 2006, 02:53 PM

That was my next question. You rebuild all your thumbnails from the main images which are permanently watermarked yes that would make your thumbnails have watermarks

SIINSI · March 26th, 2006, 04:31 PM

OK, no problemo. I can deal with that. The rest won't have that problem

What about the tiny watermark? How come it shows so small even though I tripled the size of it an reuploaded a new watermark? It looks to be that it only shows about a third od the size of the actual file. Should it show the watermark as actual size?

Thanks Chuck for your help.

Miguel

Chuck S · March 26th, 2006, 06:03 PM

It does show the watermark the size it is. Remember if you place a small watermark on a very large picture iit is going to be very small looking overall on the image.

You need to experiment on watermark sizes to come up with something that works for your images

SIINSI · March 26th, 2006, 06:44 PM

Chuck, I got it figured out

I was having so many problems I just realized I uploaded the watermark to 2 different directories and didn't overwrite the correct one.

Thanks for all your help.

Miguel