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Resizing and creating thumbnails

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 3:48 pm
by gabrielp
Hi guys,
Has anyone found a way, without using the Photoshop configurator, to "fit resize" thumbnails? Meaning, I want to take a PDF, create a thumbnail of the first page, and resize it so its longest dimension is 350 pixels, without distorting its aspect ratio. PDF2Image only takes inline values for the fixed width/height, so if I calculate the resized aspect ratio, I can't use it within PDF2Image.

Re: Resizing and creating thumbnails

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 4:58 pm
by freddyp
The documentation of the PDF2Image configurator says:
Image dimensions

If 'Resolution' is selected, the page will be rendered at given resolution. If 'Fixed with and/or height' is selected, the page is rendered at given width and/or height. At least one of Height or Width must be defined. If both are defined, the aspect ratio is not maintained.
In other words, specifying one of the two values will do. You will have to have two instances, one for portrait and one for landscape with a condition.

Re: Resizing and creating thumbnails

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 5:02 pm
by jan_suhr
I'm at the moment making an APP for that, will be ready anytime soon :-)

Jan

Re: Resizing and creating thumbnails

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 5:45 pm
by gabrielp
freddyp wrote:In other words, specifying one of the two values will do. You will have to have two instances, one for portrait and one for landscape with a condition.
Perfect! It's very nice having you on the forums now :)
jan_suhr wrote:I'm at the moment making an APP for that, will be ready anytime soon :-)
Nice man. I'll probably be your first customer 8-)

Re: Resizing and creating thumbnails

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 7:40 pm
by gabrielp
Freddy, why don't they accept a variable for those dimensions? It makes so much sense to allow for one there. :cry:

Re: Resizing and creating thumbnails

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:55 am
by bens
gabrielp wrote:Freddy, why don't they accept a variable for those dimensions? It makes so much sense to allow for one there. :cry:
That's an oversight and will be fixed for the next release. Thanks for pointing it out :-)

Re: Resizing and creating thumbnails

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 1:42 pm
by jan_suhr
The thumbnail app is now published:
https://appstore.enfocus.com/product/makeThumbnails


Jan