On 11 Jan 2007, at 01:54, Edward Duffy wrote: > I'm working on getting tracker to use the .desktop file format defined > by the XFCE project (suggested by Erland). It's just about done, and > I'll include the imagemagick version of the pdf thumbnailer in that. > Thanks, I wasn't aware imagemagick handled pdf, although I can't say > I'm surprised. It does postscript too - although that is quite slow.
> > On 1/10/07, Saleem Abdulrasool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Erlend Davidson wrote: >> >>> Erlend Davidson wrote: >> >>>> 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. >> >> I agree that in order to keep tracker desktop-neutral, it should use >> convert, and in that spirit, I have attached a patch to use >> convert. It >> does seem that convert also produces a nicer image. >> >> However, I was unable to reproduce the improvement in time, infact, >> convert took slightly longer, though I dont think its enough to >> justify >> not trying to use convert instead. >> >> Saleem Abdulrasool >> compnerd (at) gentoo (dot) org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tracker-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > tracker-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
