[poppler] thumbnails

Leonard Rosenthol lrosenth at adobe.com
Tue May 19 19:56:12 PDT 2009


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: poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Albert Astals Cid
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:53 PM
To: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
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
> poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler


_______________________________________________
poppler mailing list
poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler


More information about the poppler mailing list