[BNM] PDF thumbnail creation

[Jay Caines-Gooby]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Sebastian von Bischopink
<lists at allaboutseb.com> wrote:
> Dear BNM,
>
> i am working on putting together a php script that displays a list of
> pdf files in a folder on the server.
> So i thought that it would be great to display a thumb of the title
> page for each pdf -
> Does anybody know if this is possible? If so, how? I only seem to
> find tools for jpg,png etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,

imagemagick will sort you out. The basic batch conversion command is
(assuming you're in a folder full of .pdfs)

mogrify -format png *.pdf

But you'll probably want to set the size of the generated thumbs, so
something like:

mogrify -format png -resize x250 *.pdf

Will make all the thumbs 250 pixels high, with the relevant width
ratios retained (i.e. no wierd stretching).


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