Apple Address Book image Sync issue

[tbrettinger]

Hi,

I’m using egw to keep adresses in Sync between two macs and one iPhone (well, more, but this is to show the issue).
I’ve been moving a bunch of locally-kept adresses onto egw via apple address book, which worked fine.

When I check the web interface, the entries look perfect, with photo and everything.

The iPhone syncs, photo is updated.
The Macs sync, everything BUT the photo.

Any ideas?

Both Macs are on snow leopard, egw is 1.8.

Regards,
Thomas

[tbrettinger]

I re-looked into this recently and I believe I found the problem - Apple Adress Book (on Macosx) stores its images in TIFF format, and will (at least via applescript) only accept those. One normally doesn’t notice this when using the gui, because from there everything is automatically converted…

I guess Apples CardDav Implementation doesn’t check for image types and just assumes that a contact photo is in TIFF format, so it’s just plain copied into the field.

As images are automatically resized and converted to jpeg, images naturally won’t show on the Mac. Iphone’s Address Book seems to accept JPEGs, as there the photos show OK.

Big Question:

If I want to play around a little and convert images to TIFF before they are sent out via CardDav, can anyone tell me where to put that in? I spent a while looking at the code but didn’t find the right spot.

As an alternative, I could try the resize function, and convert everything to TIFF 60x60 on storage. I wonder what else would be broken by THAT

Any ideas?

Regards,
Thomas

[Ralf_Becker_Stylite]

Hi Thomas,

I re-looked into this recently and I believe I found the problem - Apple
Adress Book (on Macosx) stores its images in TIFF format, and will (at least
via applescript) only accept those. One normally doesn’t notice this when
using the gui, because from there everything is automatically converted…

I guess Apples CardDav Implementation doesn’t check for image types and just
assumes that a contact photo is in TIFF format, so it’s just plain copied
into the field.

As images are automatically resized and converted to jpeg, images naturally
won’t show on the Mac. Iphone’s Address Book seems to accept JPEGs, as there
the photos show OK.

Big Question:

If I want to play around a little and convert images to TIFF before they are
sent out via CardDav, can anyone tell me where to put that in? I spent a
while looking at the code but didn’t find the right spot.

As an alternative, I could try the resize function, and convert everything
to TIFF 60x60 on storage. I wonder what else would be broken by THAT

Any ideas?

Sure

Nice analysis. Storing it as tiff makes probably no sense, but we could
convert it user-agent based to tiff for Apple Addressbook.
That must be done in addressbook/inc/class.addressbook_vcal.inc.php.

Ralf

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