Re: [PHP] What method is best for generating thumbnails in PHP from PDF's?

2009-11-14 Thread German Geek
Hi, I've spent ages trying to figure out a good way for this. Ghostscript and ImageMagick were slow and not giving satisfactory results because the colors were wrong in some instances. The solution for me was to use ImageMagick with X-PDF. You can install xpdf in any linux distro or even on

[PHP] What method is best for generating thumbnails in PHP from PDF's?

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Payne
Hi Everyone, I have been asked to create thumbnails from the first page of a PDF document on the fly with PHP, I have looked online but am confused as there doesn't seem 1 simple solution. What would you all recommend as an easy way to do this? Any help would be really appreciated. Chris --

Re: [PHP] What method is best for generating thumbnails in PHP from PDF's?

2009-11-12 Thread Stephen
--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Chris Payne chris_pa...@danmangames.com wrote: I have been asked to create thumbnails from the first page of a PDF document on the fly with PHP, I have looked online but am confused as there doesn't seem 1 simple solution. Go to sitepoint.com and search for photo

Re: [PHP] What method is best for generating thumbnails in PHP from PDF's?

2009-11-12 Thread clancy_1
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:45:55 -0800 (PST), stephe...@rogers.com (Stephen) wrote: --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Chris Payne chris_pa...@danmangames.com wrote: I have been asked to create thumbnails from the first page of a PDF document on the fly with PHP, I have looked online but am confused as