[BNM] PDF thumbnail creation

[Sebastian von Bischopink]

Dear Jay,

thanks for the tip. Now i just need to get the hosting guys to
install ImageMagick & the API.

Seb



On 1 Jul 2008, at 11:02, Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:

> 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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