About Conversion Settings Configuring Refinery Conversion Settings

2-20 Administrators Guide for Conversion

2.3 Configuring Refinery Conversion Settings

This section covers the following topics: ■ About Conversion Settings on page 2-20 ■ About Thumbnails on page 2-21 ■ Calculating Timeouts on page 2-22 ■ Setting Accepted Conversions on page 2-22 ■ Setting Multi-Page TIFF Files as the Primary Web-Viewable Rendition on page 2-23 ■ Setting Up Thumbnails on page 2-24 ■ Configuring Rendering Options on UNIX on page 2-25 ■ Specifying the Font Path on page 2-26 ■ Configuring Third-Party Application Settings on page 2-26 ■ Configuring Timeout Settings for Graphics Conversions on page 2-26

2.3.1 About Conversion Settings

Before configuring refinery conversion settings, you should complete the following tasks: ■ Start your refinery. ■ Make sure your refinery has been set up as a provider to one or multiple content servers. For details, see Configuring Refinery Providers on page 2-5. ■ Make sure the InboundRefinerySupport component is installed and enabled on each content server. ■ Make sure each content server has been configured to send files to the refinery for conversion. For details, see Configuring Content Servers to Send Jobs to Refineries on page 2-9. Refinery conversion settings control which conversions the refinery will accept and how the refinery processes each conversion. Inbound Refinery includes Outside In Image Export, which can be used for the following. ■ To create thumbnails of files. Thumbnails are small preview images of content. For details, see About Thumbnails on page 2-21 and Setting Up Thumbnails on page 2-24. Jobs Queued Identifies the number of jobs each provider has waiting for conversion. Last Message Displays the last status message delivered by the provider. Connection State Identifies whether the provider is connected to the Content Server or not. Last Activity Date Lists the date and time of the last provider activity. Actions Displays the Provider Information Page , listing information regarding the specific provider. Element Description Managing Conversions 2-21 ■ To convert files to multi-page TIFF files, enabling users to view the files through standard web browsers with a TIFF viewer plugin. For details, see Setting Multi-Page TIFF Files as the Primary Web-Viewable Rendition on page 2-23. For more information about file formats that can be converted by Inbound Refinery using Outside In Image Export, see Appendix B.1, File Formats Converted by Outside In Technology . In addition, several conversion options are available for use with Inbound Refinery. When a conversion option is enabled, its conversion settings are added to the refinery.

2.3.2 About Thumbnails