Third Party Tools

ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design and Development product requires the following third party tools for certain functions:

Crystal Report Server- For generating specification packages. See Using Crystal Reports.
ImageMagick (Optional)- For image conversions of formats like bmp, pdf etc. See Using Image Magick.
nConvert (Optional)- For image conversions of formats like bmp, pdf etc. See Using nConvert.
Ghost Script (Optional)- Required with ImageMagick and nConvert for converting pdf to jpg or ai to jpg image conversion which is used in primary image functionality. See Using Ghost Script.

Note: If you are altering an existing property in any of the properties files, you should copy the last entry in the file for that property and paste it at the bottom of the file. The last property entry is enforced if duplicated and the property values that are provided should not be changed.

The following Third Part Tool versions are supported in V6R2011x:

Third Party Tool	Version
Crystal Reports 11.5 ( XI R2)	11.5
ImageMagick	6.5.9-Q16
nConvert	5.0
Ghost Script	8.51

Note: ImageMagick and nConvert are not supported on AIX 6.1 and Windows2008 SP2/R2 64bit server.

Platform Matrix for Third Party Image Conversion Tools

The following table lists the image format support on different platforms with different third party conversion tools,

Server (used as EPS or FCS)	Image Conversion Utility supported (and its version)	Image Conversion Utility Details	Checkin Behaviour
Windows 2003 Server	nConvert 5.0	nConvert 5.0	AI browser files checkin successful.
LINUX (RHEL)	nConvert 5.0	nConvert 5.0	Some files which cannot be converted by nConvert will fail and cannot be checked in (eg: SVG, SWF, EMF etc) Ghost script should be correctly configured on server with nConvert to transform Adobe files (AI, PDF etc)
LINUX (SUSE)	nConvert 5.0	nConvert 5.0	Some files which cannot be converted by nConvert will fail and cannot be checked in (eg: SVG, SWF, EMF etc) Ghost script should be correctly configured on server with nConvert to transform Adobe files (AI, PDF etc)
AIX 6.1	NONE	nConvert and ImageMagick are not supported for AIX 6.1	*Some files which cannot be converted by native Java APIs will fail and cannot be checked in (eg: BMP, AI, PDF, SVG, SWF, EMF etc)
Solaris 10	NONE	nConvert and ImageMagick are not supported for Solaris 10	*Some files which cannot be converted by native Java APIs will fail and cannot be checked in (eg: BMP, AI, PDF, SVG, SWF, EMF etc)

Note: The platforms listed in the table above should be used as Enovia Platform Server (EPS) (known earlier as Matrix Collaboration Server or MCS). The same platforms should be used for setting up FCS.

Note: ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design and Development V6R2012 supports with different third party tools only on Windows 2008 Server, LINUX (RHEL), and LINUX (SUSE) platforms.