Alan,
You can see what I've got so far here:
https://github.com/jsnshrmn/DSpace/raw/master/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/mediafilter/XPDF2Thumbnail.java
Testing is definitely something it could use!
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jason,
>
> To clarify, you sent Scott a solution for PDF thumbnails? I'd be very
> interested in testing it as well. :) We're still testing XPDF and
> Terry's Ghostscript solution for PDF thumbnails so I'd love to compare.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> On 11/27/2013 02:00 AM, Jason Sherman wrote:
> > I sent Scott a solution based of my jpeg thumbnail off-list for testing.
> I
> > suppose I should have kept it on list so that everyone was on the same
> > page. Live and learn! I can share my version if anyone is interested,
> but
> > it sounds like Terry's solution does the job.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Terry,
> >>
> >> That's very interesting. I just tried your code and it works great, I
> >> compared it to the XPDF method as well as our the manual thumbnailing
> >> we've been using (embarassingly) for a few years[0]. The colors in the
> >> PDF I used as an example are a bit exaggerated, but it's not too bad and
> >> the thumbnail is much more crisp.
> >>
> >> BTW, I made a pull request[1] on your repo to add some installation /
> >> configuration instructions to your README.md.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >> [0] http://i.imgur.com/xzH5tcL.png
> >> [1]
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/DSpaceImageMagickThumnails/pull/1
> >>
> >> On 10/15/2013 06:34 PM, Terry Brady wrote:
> >>> We had a similar need. I created a module to build thumbnails with
> >>> ImageMagick and Ghost Script.
> >>>
> >>> If this sounds useful, you can see the code here.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/DSpaceImageMagickThumnails
> >>>
> >>> Terry
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, RENTON Scott <scott.ren...@ed.ac.uk
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks folks. I've emailed Jason as you can probably see!
> >>>>
> >>>> Scott
> >>>>
> >>>> Scott Renton
> >>>> Systems Developer, Library & University Collections
> >>>> 24 Buccleuch Place, 2nd Floor Right
> >>>> tel: 515219
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 15/10/2013 16:02, "RENTON Scott" <scott.ren...@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks Ivan
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I will do- in fact I will mail him now before I forget!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers
> >>>>> Scott
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Scott Renton
> >>>>> Systems Developer, Library & University Collections
> >>>>> 24 Buccleuch Place, 2nd Floor Right
> >>>>> tel: 515219
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 15/10/2013 16:01, "helix84" <heli...@centrum.sk> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:31 PM, RENTON Scott <
> scott.ren...@ed.ac.uk>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> Yeah, that's the code I'm using. I'm not too surprised if the JPEG
> >> work
> >>>>>>> is only for images- I would say the PDF thumbnails work is quite an
> >>>>>>> obscure requirement. Anyway, if this is not changing, I would be
> >> happy
> >>>>>>> to tell the users that this is the best they can get for the
> moment;
> >>>>>>> they may decide not to implement, but that's up to them!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sorry about the inaccurate first answer.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I see that both the fixed JPEGFilter/BrandedPreviewJPEGFilter and
> your
> >>>>>> XPDF2Thumbnail use the awt libraries to manipulate bitmaps.
> Therefore
> >>>>>> it might be possible to apply the same fixes to XPDF2Thumbnail as
> were
> >>>>>> applied to the JPEG filters. Try asking Jason Sherman
> >>>>>> <jsher...@usao.edu> about it, he's the author of the fixes and
> might
> >>>>>> be willing to do it for PDF, too.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>> ~~helix84
> >>>>>>
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