[PHP] PDF Thumbnail with PHP?

[Anthony]

Unfortunatly, that's not what I'm trying to do. That function will add an
image to a PDF file as a thumbnail. What I want to do, is read a PDF file,
and generate a thumbnail in the form of a gif or jpg and have it display in
the browser. Thanks for the thought though.

- Anthony


"Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote in message
news:C8F323573C030A448F3E5A2B6FE2070B0101FA4E@neme sis...
[snip]
Does anyone know if there is a way to generate a thumbnail of the 1st
page
of a PDF document using PHP. I have an application that archives PDF
files,
beeing able to generate small preview images of the documents would be
really cool :)
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This may be just what you are looking for
[url]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.pdf-add-thumbnail.php[/url]

Have a pleasant and creative day!

[John W. Holmes]

Anthony wrote:

> Unfortunatly, that's not what I'm trying to do. That function will add an
> image to a PDF file as a thumbnail. What I want to do, is read a PDF file,
> and generate a thumbnail in the form of a gif or jpg and have it display in
> the browser. Thanks for the thought though.

What about something like ImageMagick? It says on the webpage that it'll
read PDF files. Maybe you can convert a certain page to a .gif and
resize it?

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