Use Thumbnails Generated By Google Docs Viewer
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This is more of a helpful tip than a support request, but I wanted to share it.
http://forrst.com/posts/PDF_thumbnails_with_Google_Docs-6G6 points out that you can use
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=MY_LINK&a=bi&pagenumber=1&w=300
to retrieve an image preview of your document(s) as you need. Just replaceMY_LINK
with a link to your document (anything Google Docs Viewer supports), specify the page number (if applicable), and specify the width of the image (keeps aspect ratio).Might be helpful to have a template that utilizes this (dynamically generated thumbnails of uploaded files!). Also, could be nice to see this added as an option to the plugin to have it use this for the Download Page add-on. Might be best to save the generated thumbnail to the site to improve load times if that’s the case.
Thought I’d share!
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