Because in almost all cases the embedded thumbnails are NOT correct/current renderings of the pages - there has even been talk of deprecating the feature in ISO 32000, since as Albert says, no current reader uses them anyway.
Leonard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Albert Astals Cid Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [poppler] thumbnails A Dimarts, 19 de maig de 2009, Shawn Rutledge va escriure: > Is there support for reading thumbnails that are embedded in a PDF > file? Poppler core has it > I get the impression that most PDF viewers aren't using those. Because are of hardcoded and makes no sense in a world were most PDF viewers let you resize randomly the thumbnail bar. Also i'm not sure if the number of PDF files with embedded thumbnails is "high". > And I don't really see how to get them using the Qt4 bindings, at > least. Right, the Qt4 bindings don't expose thumbnail reading, if you'd like to have them, do you think you can contribute a patch? Albert > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
