PhPress.org: PhPress for Windows

http://www.phpress.org/

PhPress does'nt work correctly under MS-Windows. PhPress needs some POSIX binaries on the server side to convert and resize the daily-papers pages. I can't make those binaries work under Windows, so 80% of the functionnalities of PhPress can't work. I don't use this OS myself, so it was very difficult and quite useless to continue to code such a compatible application, which was creating a lot of trouble for nothing. You may want to use Windows + Firefox as a client computer, but in my opinion you'll get better result with a MacOSX computer. If you absolutely need to use PhPress under MS-Windows because you want to scan a newspaper with a specific scanner (i.e. an old microfilm scanner) which cannot work under MacOS or Linux, you can try to: - Download EasyPHP 1.8 - Replace the default php.ini file by this one - Install PhPress - Use the 'Scan' tool to index the pages as TIFF images (don't try to convert them into PNG, it will not work) - Make some backup CDs with the tool provided by PhPress - Load the backup CDs in a PhPress system running under Linux or MacOSX. - You'll be able to convert the files into PNG format, then to use the analysis system. I did so in 2004-2005 to scan three years of the journal L'Eclaireur de Nice with an old Minolta microfilm scanner. I did'nt find any solution to use it with a Mac or Linux, and even the Windows driver was very hard to find. I only used Windows 2K, I don't know if this solution will work under other MS systems. I can't provide more help to Windows users.