[TYPO3-dam] external thumbnails for PDF files

[Lukas Stancik]

I see... Well thanks for your answer Peter, although it's not what I 
would like to hear :D

Regards

Lukas

Peter Kuehn [wmdb>] napsal(a):
> Hi Lukas,
> 
> sry that I have to say: no, at least not at the moment.
> 
> there have been discussions (ok - to be precise: i mention it every now 
> and then ;) ) that it might be an idea to rework thumbs.php and related 
> (the ones who create and display thumbnails) to a services based 
> approach. this might give a handle to grab to show thumbnails in the way 
> you are asking for, but it needs some coding to be done on both sides - 
> core and dam, communication and therefore: time.
> 
> its on some lists for DAM 1.2 but atm: no chance since thumbnails are 
> done via calls to core api functions.
> 
> gRTz
> pekue
> 
> Lukas Stancik schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> my webhosting does not provide Ghostscript functionality with 
>> Imagemagick and will not provide it neither in future. But I'd still 
>> like to provide the thumbnails for PDF files. Is there a way to 
>> display jpeg thumbnails created outside TYPO3, stored somewhere in 
>> fileadmin tree with names matching the filename of the PDF file? Or is 
>> there any other way at all? Thanks very much for any hint.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Lukas Stancik