Watermark is not responding

djassemi

I am sorry to anoy you with this but I am not able to get the watermarks running.

I have placed the installation of zen into a foulder on the server called zen. Everything is working neatly. I have activated the watermarks on global settings and used "copyright". Just to make sure that this will be selected I also used that setting in the album settings. I had a look in the zp-core/watermarks folder where all four default png´s are.

Is that a bug or did I miss something ?
Best regards

acrylian

You have to clear the image cache as you have already cached images so you don't see the change. Enable the cacheManager plugin and you will find a button for that on the overview admin page.

djassemi

I did that a couple of times already but it do not show any watermark at all ?

acrylian

Be sure your browser cache or anything else is not interfering and also check that the cache is really cleared (review your error log for permission issues). it is certainly working as expeclted

I assume we are talking about the sized images on image.php in one of the standard themes.

djassemi

The theme I am using is called paradigm. I supposed it to work nietly. I doubled checked on browser cache, html cache and other browsers, too. No feedback, yet. Now I placed the content from the watermarks folder into the plugins folder watermarks. But still nothing.

acrylian

Might be that the theme does disable the watermarking. Best you contact the theme creator.

djassemi

I updated the theme today and realised that in the extensions folder the watermarks.php is missing. Should there be that file ? Where do I get it from ?

acrylian

There is not supposed to be a watermark.php. Watermarks are a core image processor function. If there is a folder named `watermark` within `zp-core`. But that are just the default watermarks. Place your custom watermarks within a folder `watermarks` within the `plugins` folder.

djassemi

So there is no file missing. Good News. The sad thing though is that after updating the theme I am still not able to activate any watermarks. I hope Olivier has any idea

acrylian

Make sure the image cache was cleared as you otherwise will not see any change. Also review all error logs. (who is Olivier??)

djassemi

I cleared the image cage. Then I enabled the text-watermark plugin to check if that could work. It did not make any change ? still confused - (Olivier is the french that is the author of the original paradigm theme that I use)

fretzl

Been looking at http://neu.aurora-sylt.de/biografie/bilder and I can see that the images are processed with a watermark (copyright)
but indeed not visible.

Is it possible that somehow your "copyright.png" ended up being nothing but a transparent png without the © graphic ?

djassemi

I deleted the watermarks folder in the plugins folder so I expected that I will have the dropdown still available in the settings panel for the core watermarks. But this one now is empty. It sais no watermarks more confused.

djassemi

I made a new png and uploaded that one also into the custommade watermarks folder but still no luck.

djassemi

I found this one:

WARNING: chdir(): Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (errno 2) in /www/htdocs/xxxx/zen/zp-core/admin-functions.php in Zeile 3465

chdir called from getWatermarks (admin-functions.php [3465])

I changed /watermarks/ into /watermarks

Now the error does not show up. But the watermark still is invisible.

djassemi

chdir($basepath = SERVERPATH . "/" . ZENFOLDER . '/watermarks');

$basepath = SERVERPATH . "/" . USER_PLUGIN_FOLDER . '/watermarks';

it seems like there is an error there, no ?

fretzl

Sorry but this is getting you nowhere.

Somehow your admin-functions.php has changed because the error you mentioned cannot come from line 3465.
Files and folders within the `zp-core` folder should never be altered and there is no need to.

My advise is to reinstall Zenphoto and run setup. Even better would be to upgrade to 1.4.8 right away.

Recommended reading:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/installation-and-upgrading#upgrading
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/theming-tutorial

B.t.w: The original paradigm theme works without problems.

djassemi

I found the error. I had Imagick Library turned on. When I turned it off the watermark appeared. But I updated the installation anyways. Cheers

djassemi

Is it possible to change the position and the size of the watermarks to full size. At the moment all watermarks are placed on the right bottom corner. I want them to appear on the whole image. Looking forward.

acrylian

There are various watermark settings including the percentage to cover and the position.

djassemi

Oh that is good but where?

acrylian

Options > Image > Watermarks

djassemi

Cheers it is working perfectly.