1-2 Administrators Guide for Conversion
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Adobe Photoshop Scripting Support: Inbound Refinery now supports conversion
using Adobe Photoshop scripting.
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EXIF and XMP Data Now Extracted and Available to Inbound Refinery: Inbound Refinery now extracts EXIF data from digital photos and XMP data from
native digital asset files and passes them to the refinery. This data is displayed on the rendition information page under the Image Data tab. To enable searching for
content items using information in the EXIF or XMP data, Oracle Text Search is required.
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Dynamic Renditions: Inbound Refinery can now construct renditions
dynamically, using metadata input when checking in a digital asset. For example, by using custom metadata fields in conjunction with custom rendition sets, text
entered on the check in page can be overlaid as a watermark on a digital asset. Similarly, pixel height and width can be entered and used to create specific
rendition sizes. When used in conjunction with the new EXIF or XMP data extraction capabilities, any extracted data can be used for watermarking, such as
datetime stamps, camera or location data.
1.3 About Inbound Refinery
Inbound Refinery version 11gR1 is a conversion server that manages file conversions for electronic assets such as documents, digital images, and motion video. In addition
to conversion, it also provides thumbnailing functionality for documents and images, the ability to extract and use EXIF data from digital images and XMP data from
electronic files generated from programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, and storyboarding for video. Inbound Refinery can be used for the
following when running on either a Windows or a UNIX server:
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To create thumbnails of files using Outside In Image Export. Thumbnails are small preview images of content.
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To convert files to multi-page TIFF files using Outside In Image Export, enabling users to view the files through standard web browsers with a TIFF viewer plugin.
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To convert videos to multiple formats for streaming and different playback or storage needs. Video conversion requires the third-party conversion software
package FlipFactory by Telestream to be purchase and installed on a separate Windows server.
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To convert images and graphics to different formats to meet display or print requirements.
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To convert files to PDF Portable Document Format, enabling users to view the files through standard web browsers with a PDF reader plugin such as Adobe
Acrobat Reader. Inbound Refinery has the following options for converting files to PDF:
– Convert to PDF using third-party applications. When running on Windows,
Inbound Refinery can use several third-party applications to create PDF files of content items. In most cases, a third-party application that can open and
print the file is used to print the file to PostScript, and then the PostScript file is converted to PDF using the configured PostScript distiller engine. In some
cases, Inbound Refinery can use a third-party application to convert a file directly to PDF. When using this option, Inbound Refinery requires a
PostScript distiller engine, a PostScript printer, and the third-party applications used during the conversion.
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– Convert to PDF using OpenOffice. When running on either Windows or UNIX,
Inbound Refinery can use OpenOffice to convert some file types directly to PDF. When using this multi-platform option, only OpenOffice is required.
– Convert to PDF using Outside In. Inbound Refinery includes Outside In, which
can be used with WinNativeConverter on Windows to create PDF files of some content items. Outside In is used to print the files to PostScript, and then
the PostScript files are converted to PDF using the configured PostScript distiller engine. When using this option, only a PostScript distiller engine is
required.
– Convert to PDF Using PDF Export. Inbound Refinery can convert directly to
PDF using Oracle Outside In technology without the need of a third-party application. This facilitates conversion of some formats to PDF on Linux and
UNIX platforms.
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On a Windows platform only, the TIFF Converter option is used to convert TIFF Tagged Image File Format files to PDF, including the following options:
– Creation of a managed PDF file from a single or multiple-page TIFF file.
– Creation of a managed PDF file from multiple TIFF files that have been
compressed into a single ZIP file.
– OCR Optical Character Recognition during TIFF to PDF conversion. This
enables indexing of the text within checked-in TIFF files, so that users can perform full-text searches of these files.
Tiff Converter is supported on Windows only.
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To convert files to XML eXtensible Markup Language files using Outside In XML Export, Search Export, and either the FlexionDoc or SearchML schema. In
addition, the XSLT eXstensible Style Language Transformation feature can post-process the resulting XML document, transforming it to a different XML
document based on your XSL eXstensible File Language file and validated against your DTD Document Type Definition or schema. XML Converter is
supported on both Windows and UNIX.
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On a Windows platform only, to convert Microsoft Office documents into HTML using Microsoft Office.
1.4 Inbound Refinery Conversion Options and Related Components