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 <[email protected]>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
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> On 15/10/2013 16:02, "RENTON Scott" <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:31 PM, RENTON Scott <[email protected]>
> >>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
> >><[email protected]> about it, he's the author of the fixes and might
> >>be willing to do it for PDF, too.
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>~~helix84
> >>
> >>Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette
> >>https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
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