The natural way of doing this would be to create a new file artefact type. However, if someone wants to take this on, please be careful, it's not as simple as it sounds.
We have done that in 1.5 for audio and video files (see bug #829136) and it has caused a large number of bugs. ** Description changed: - > Btw,- I am sure you have this suggestion in your pibeline, but if it - > is something you are planning to code from the ground then I think you - > might be able to save some time by looking at Typo3's way of using - > Image Magic to handle images and thumbnails. In this way you can have - > small images of PDF's - > - even of Illustrator files beside all the normal image files. - > - > http://typo3.org/download/packages/ - > + Btw,- I am sure you have this suggestion in your pibeline, but if it + is something you are planning to code from the ground then I think you + might be able to save some time by looking at Typo3's way of using + Image Magic to handle images and thumbnails. In this way you can have + small images of PDF's + - even of Illustrator files beside all the normal image files. - Interesting idea. Maybe file it as a feature request on the tracker? I think it would be a good feature if we had little thumbnails of PDFs too :) - -- - Regards, - Nigel McNie - - This bug was imported from eduforge.org, see: - https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1797&group_id=176&atid=742 + http://typo3.org/download/packages/ ** Tags removed: mahara-eduforge-feature-request -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/547710 Title: Little thumbnails of PDFs Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Confirmed Bug description: Btw,- I am sure you have this suggestion in your pibeline, but if it is something you are planning to code from the ground then I think you might be able to save some time by looking at Typo3's way of using Image Magic to handle images and thumbnails. In this way you can have small images of PDF's - even of Illustrator files beside all the normal image files. http://typo3.org/download/packages/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/547710/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
