Hey Folks,

It look likes this method has not been implemented. I just want to throw out 
some thoughts on it. I may take a whack at this over the weekend.

It appears that the image is in WMF or Clipboard (BMP?) format.

Here are some links with sourcecode or discussion of PID_THUMBNAIL...

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/file/OLE2SummaryAgainst_file-3.27.patch
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dno97ta/html/msdn_docprop.asp 

I think the return type of this as a convenience method ought to be a 
java.awt.Image. Maybe one version returns a byte array and one returns an 
Image? I think Image is probably the best as it is a convenience method. 
However, backwards compatibility may be an issue.

getThumbnailAsImage() maybe?

Do Office documents use PID_THUMBNAIL? Do they actually put a WMF image in the 
property stream? Often I see see comments next to it indicating it isn't used.

Will the POIBrowser be implemented in the next binary build? It seems useful, 
but I can't find it in my binary distribution.

Thanks,
Drew

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