Frank, what does Dolphin use to preview things like JPEGs? If I correctly
understand libkdegraphics-thumbnailers contains only stuff for PS/PDF and
RAW images.
if I would try to use poppler to get PDF thumbnails shall I hack this
(unmaintained) package or is there a better place?

Thanks

Leo



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2014-06-24 14:31 GMT+02:00 Leonardo Giordani <giordani.leona...@gmail.com>:

> Hi Frank,
>
> thank you for the link, I'm going to check it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo
>
> Leonardo Giordani
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> 2014-06-24 14:10 GMT+02:00 Frank Reininghaus <frank7...@googlemail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> 2014-06-24 13:42 GMT+02:00 Leonardo Giordani:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I get a very strange behaviour in Dolphin when dealing some PDF files
>> (I do
>> > not yet know why just some of them).
>> >
>> > The preview shows an image that is larger than the actual page, with a
>> big
>> > white area.
>> >
>> > I tried to split the PDF (pdftk burst) and the thumbnails of some of
>> them
>> > have the same problem.
>> >
>> > When opening the PDF with Okular, Gimp or other programs everything
>> works
>> > perfectly.
>> >
>> > Here are 2 examples of this behaviour. In the first one the image is
>> also
>> > surrounded by a white border which is invisible in Gimp or Okular.
>> >
>> >
>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8dlXBUSEZtPY19CSTBvNW9QTDA&usp=sharing
>> >
>> > Anyone understands why Dolphin produces a wrong thumbnail?
>> > What does Dolphin use to generate the previews? Ghostscript? What
>> parameters
>> > does it use?
>>
>> I think that KDE applications use the "ps" subdirectory of this
>> repository to generate PDF previews:
>>
>> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdegraphics-thumbnailers.git
>>
>> I'm not familiar with this thumbnailer, but I hope that all required
>> information can be found in the source code.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Frank
>>
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