Title: [Feature Request] PDF Thumbnail
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# [Feature Request] PDF Thumbnail
* [Trevsweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevsweb/)
* (@trevsweb)
* [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/)
* Really loving the plugin great work. Is it possible to add a feature?
Trying
to make the thumbnails generated by the wordpress media library a bit more palatable
for working with A LOT of PDFs.
* Google has a great converter via their googledocs viewer. I was wondering if
you could add a bulk thumbnail generator that would add image previews of the
pdf document I upload. I could do the (convert on the fly) process but I don’t
want to constantly rely on the googledocs service and slow down the user experience
so a cached thumbnail would be lovely.
* `https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.website.com/wp-content/uploads/
2013/01/00001.pdf&a=bi&pagenumber=1&w=250`
* I managed to just copy one test file but my php skills are poor tbh and would
not be at a level to add this into an automated process without your help.
* ```
$doc2copy = 'http://www.website.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/00001.pdf';
$file = 'https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=$doc2copy&a=bi&pagenumber=1&w=250';
$newfile = 'img/full1_1_3.png';
if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}
```
* If this feature could be added that would be awesome 🙂
If not your plugin has
already solved so many problems for me. Thank you.
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-library-assistant/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-library-assistant/)
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* Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
* (@dglingren)
* [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404715)
* Thanks for the kind words and for your suggestion. I’m glad the plugin is useful
for you.
* I haven’t had any experience with the converter or PDF thumbnails, but I’ll have
a look and see if there’s something I can do. I am traveling until 2/12/2013
and do not have access to my development system, so it will be a while until
I can investigate. I will post an update to this topic as soon as I have news.
* Thread Starter [Trevsweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevsweb/)
* (@trevsweb)
* [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404741)
* I read your post. To be honest, I thought you might not reply until you got back.
Safe travels.
* Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
* (@dglingren)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404862)
* I am back from my travels and looking into this topic. I think it’s feasible
to enhance the `[mla_gallery]` shortcode to generate thumbnails from Google Drive
viewer on-the-fly. I’ll have to give more thought to caching thumbnail images,
since storing multiple representations of non-image files is not supported by
WordPress.
* In the interim, I have an additional question for you. Your example URL includes
some parameters I can’t find documentation for; “a=”, “pagenumber=” and “w=”.
Can you tell me where to find the most complete documentation of viewer parameters?
Thanks!
* Thread Starter [Trevsweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevsweb/)
* (@trevsweb)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404865)
* [https://forrst.com/posts/PDF_thumbnails_with_Google_Docs-6G6](https://forrst.com/posts/PDF_thumbnails_with_Google_Docs-6G6)
* This is where I got the original code from. I have done a search and cannot find
how or where he got the information to do the width or linking parameters which
is a little annoying. I will post if I find something.
* Thanks for getting back to me.
* Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
* (@dglingren)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404873)
* I am working on this, but I wanted to share the following with you. I was able
to get a good result by creating a custom markup template with the following
in the “item” segment:
* ```
<[+itemtag+] class='gallery-item'>
<[+icontag+] class='gallery-icon'>
<[+captiontag+] class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>
[+caption+]
```
* I’ll work on a way to do this without a custom template, but it was fun to see
the template in action…
* Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
* (@dglingren)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404874)
* I have just released version 1.13, which includes Google File Viewer support.
Please let me know if you have any issues with the new feature, questions or
further suggestions.
* This version doesn’t support caching of thumbnail images; the performance seems
good and the service should be reliable.
* Thanks again for your interest, your patience and for using the plugin.
* Thread Starter [Trevsweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevsweb/)
* (@trevsweb)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404875)
* Excellent I will test this out tomorrow. Thank you for putting your time and
effort into this great plugin
* Thread Starter [Trevsweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevsweb/)
* (@trevsweb)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-pdf-thumbnail/#post-3404876)
* Just testing the MLA Gallery out. it works excellently 😀
Many thanks for adding
this.
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