[odf-discuss] Anyway to generate thumbnails out of ODF

[Matthew Cruickshank]

Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>
> Just to clarify, I know this is not handled by OOo or the OpenDocument 
> itself but rather by the file manager or a library. My question was 
> more like if there was such a library/implementation (which there is 
> according to the first response)
>
> And the next question is what module/package/library enables this. I 
> don't know much about filetype rendering implementation to pin-point 
> the one for ODF.

ODF files (always?) include a thumbnail image that can be extracted. In 
an ODF 1.0 file that I've got it's in "Thumbnails/thumbnail.png" when 
unzipping the file.

For Gnome/Nautilus, there are several bits of software responsible for 
thumbnails such as gnome-video-thumbnailer and gnome-theme-thumbnailer, 
and it'll save them in %HOME%/.thumbnails

I think these executables are called by libgnomeui/gnome-thumbnail.c -- 
see http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomeui/2.18/

On my desktop, the latest Ubuntu, I don't see odt thumbnails. Natch.


.Matthew Cruickshank
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