Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>
>> 2007/1/10, Saleem Abdulrasool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> While trying to come up with a patch for the thumbnailer, I noticed that
>>> the image thumbnailing makes use of 'convert'. This utility is actually
>>> provided by imagemagick. The attached patch adds in a check for
>>> imagemagick (>=5.2.1) so that this dependency can also be tracked.
>>>
>> imagemagick is an (optional) runtime dependency, only needed if
>> thumbnailing is activated (which isn't by default), it's not a build
>> dependency. So imho I think it should *not* be added as a configure
>> check.
>> It would be a good idea though to add imagemagick to "Additional
>> recommended packages" in the README file. With the remark that it is
>> needed for creating thumbnails (as is evince-thumbnailer, so evince
>> should be added to that list, too)
Actually, I noticed that evince-thumbnailer is quite slow compared to
ImageMagick's 'convert'. You can just use:
$ convert "pdf:inputfile.pdf[0]" -scale 128x128 "png:outfile.png"
and it's much quicker (plus it removes the dependency on gnome - you
already have imagemagick). Convert also generates much nicer looking
image. The [0] is just to make sure it only converts the first page,
and not the whole document.
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