I am about to add a section to my website dedicated to storing and organizing hundreds of PDF files. To make finding PDFs in the Umbraco Media section easier, I would like PDF media nodes to show up with thumbnails of the PDF's content as their icon, like it does for images in the media section in Umbraco 4.9. Does anyone know how I might be able to add this functionality? The only Umbraco-related PDF thumbnail package I've found is PDF Preview, but that's just a macro for displaying thumbnails on the front-end.
Alternatively, if I could get it to automatically generate PDF thumbnails and save the thumbnail somewhere else, where I could access it from a media node, that could also work. I'm guessing I could use something like ImageMagick.net to generate the thumbnails, but I have no idea how I would integrate this with Umbraco.
This is going to be on Umbraco 4.9. I haven't actually used 4.9 yet, I'm waiting for someone to upgrade my installation, but I'm assuming it doesn't offer PDF previews built-in, as I haven't seen any mention of that.
Richard,
That package looks like it just generates application-specific icons, not previews of the file's actual content, which is what I'm looking for.
Preview icons for PDF files?
I am about to add a section to my website dedicated to storing and organizing hundreds of PDF files. To make finding PDFs in the Umbraco Media section easier, I would like PDF media nodes to show up with thumbnails of the PDF's content as their icon, like it does for images in the media section in Umbraco 4.9. Does anyone know how I might be able to add this functionality? The only Umbraco-related PDF thumbnail package I've found is PDF Preview, but that's just a macro for displaying thumbnails on the front-end.
Alternatively, if I could get it to automatically generate PDF thumbnails and save the thumbnail somewhere else, where I could access it from a media node, that could also work. I'm guessing I could use something like ImageMagick.net to generate the thumbnails, but I have no idea how I would integrate this with Umbraco.
Could anyone point me in the right direction?
Hi David
What version of Umbraco do you need to make this happen on? I suppose upgrading to 4.9 is not an option?
/Jan
HI David,
There is a package for that. Check out the media icons package http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/media-icons works on V4.7+
Cheers,
Richard
Jan,
This is going to be on Umbraco 4.9. I haven't actually used 4.9 yet, I'm waiting for someone to upgrade my installation, but I'm assuming it doesn't offer PDF previews built-in, as I haven't seen any mention of that.
Richard,
That package looks like it just generates application-specific icons, not previews of the file's actual content, which is what I'm looking for.
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