How can I create a thumbnail of a PDF on upload?
Development and Programming
I have a client that needs to upload floor plans in PDF format to a website. They want to create a thumbnail image (screenshot) of the PDF upon upload. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Here is an example of what they are looking to do: http://plattsburghhousing.com/find_manhome.aspx. We are moving them over to EE2 and looking for a solution to this request.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
The most cost effective solution would be to use a desktop app to generate the JPG and have them attach to an entry both the PDF and JPG separately.
That being said you can generate a JPG on the server from a PDF using imagemagick, but it would have to be a custom solution. I am not aware of any add-ons that do that currently. Maybe someone else knows of one.
I looked at Devot:ee and did not see any add-ons for this purpose. I did see a few other requests in the forum for this feature so maybe it is time for someone to make one and make some money on it. I would contribute if there is not other existing way.
I can’t believe there’s nobody out there who hasn’t dealt with this issue.
Please, can’t somebody post a code-snippet or a short explanation using ImageMagick for us non-PHP-folks?
I’ve tried a couple of things found on Stackoverflow, but haven’t been able to make it whit with EE.
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/thumber
Yup! Just installed it, and MAN IT’S GREAT! Thank you Electric Putty!
Thumber says it needs ImageMagick and Ghostscript installed. Can anyone walk me through how to do that? I am running EE on a Windows 2008 machine using IIS.
I installed ImageMagik, but then what? I see there are 3 php interfaces, do I need one of those? http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#php
I installed the GhostScript 9.06 for Windows exe, but now what?
thanks!!!!
You should ghostscript and imagemagick to installe on your server . most linux hosting packages already have these installed.