Visual SKUs Enhances Digital Asset Management with Ghostscript Integration

Company Overview

Visual SKUs is a leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) software and high-volume still and 360 product photography services. Their flagship product, Amplify, is designed to streamline the creation, management, and distribution of high-quality product images, enabling businesses to manage product photography projects more efficiently and distribute images to customers, resellers, and internal systems with speed, agility, and accuracy. 

The Situation

In the realm of digital asset management, the ability to generate visual previews of various file formats is essential for efficient asset handling. Amplify required a robust solution to convert PDFs into JPEGs for thumbnail previews and to transform vector formats like SVG and EPS into raster formats. This capability was crucial to ensure that users could quickly and accurately preview and manage their digital assets within the system.

The Solution

To address this need, Visual SKUs integrated Ghostscript into Amplify’s architecture. Ghostscript, renowned for its powerful capabilities in processing PostScript and PDF files, was employed to generate JPEG previews of PDF, SVG, and EPS files, and convert vector formats to raster formats.

These conversions were facilitated through the use of ImageMagick and Ghostscript.NET, both leveraging Ghostscript in the background to perform the necessary transformations.

The Results

By integrating Ghostscript, Amplify enhanced its functionality, providing users with seamless and efficient conversion capabilities. This integration ensured that all digital assets, regardless of their original format, could be easily previewed and managed within the system. As a result, Visual SKUs’ clients experience improved efficiency in handling their digital assets.