Erlend Davidson wrote:
> 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.
Also, you can trim about 30% off the time convert takes by using
-antialias to turn off antialiasing... you don't really notice it at
small sizes with photots, not sure about pdfs.
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