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

[Alexandro Colorado]

Great to know there is a thumbnail I am working on a webapp to work as a  
template repository and I was looking for something like the Thumbnail  
folder.


On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:03:39 -0500, Matthew Cruickshank  
<odf-fellowship at holloway.co.nz> wrote:

> 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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