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Assuming instead the use of the service Peppers by about 30 users, you summarize the following configurations of minimum and recommended:
| Minimum | Recommended |
CPU | 2 core (4 Thread) 2,4 GHz | 6 core (12 Thread) 2,6+ GHz |
RAM | 8 GB | 12/16 GB |
Storage | 1 TB* * dependent depends on the Customer’s storage needs of the Customer | 1 TB* * dependent depends on the Customer’s storage needs of the Customer |
Operating System | CentOS 7 Linux | CentOS 7 Linux |
Network | Gigabit | Gigabit |
Software | Apache Tomcat 8.0.28 | Apache Tomcat 8.0.28 |
MariaDB 5.5.4.4 | MariaDB 5.5.4.4 | |
Java JDK 1.8.0 | Java JDK 1.8.0 | |
ImageMagick 6.7 | ImageMagick 6.7 | |
Ghostscript 9 | Ghostscript 9 |
As regards the client component, plugin Peppers Peppers plugin for InDesign currently in production is compatible with Adobe InDesign CS 5.5 and higher.
The new plugin is compatible however to today exclusively date only with Adobe InDesign CC2015, it is planned expected to extend the compatibility with Adobe InDesign CC2014.
The plugin Peppers communicates communication between the clients with the server by opening a socket on TCP port 11898 (value configurable anyway)InDesign plugin and the server module, is based on a TCP socket connection on a pre-configured port. By default, the port is 11898.
In addition to this, of course, we must consider the TCP port 8080 , connections to the port 8080 shall be allowed for the direct exposure exposition of Tomcat. Otherwise, or TCP port 80 if you want can be used in case the Customer wants to configure a an internal reverse proxy extension using through Apache2.
One more requirement regarding the automatic images processing using the Peppers InDesign plugin, is that the client machines must have the Adobe Bridge CC2015 software installed.
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