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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Dolphin PDF preview - strange behaviour
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-07-15 19:50:16
Message-ID: 9859674.FzcROPvREP () xps
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El Dimarts, 15 de juliol de 2014, a les 10:18:51, Leonardo Giordani va 
escriure:
> Well, no one cares if thumbnails are not 100% accurate if they are 90%
> accurate. =)
> If they show (as in my case) a page which is two times large than it should
> be, I find it not good.
> 
> I think that the suggested change to the gs command line (bug 336658) is
> meaningful, it just renders the things better.
> I am not at ease with the KDE development workflow, otherwise I would have
> already commited a change to the code with that "-dUseTrimBox".

Followed up in the bug itself.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> If some is available to help me step by step to make the change and submit
> it, I would gladly learn. =)
> 
> A completely different story is the introduction of poppler instead of
> Ghostscript. This is a complex task, so I may understand if no one touches
> it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Leo
> 
> Leonardo Giordani
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> 
> 2014-07-09 22:58 GMT+02:00 Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>:
> > El Dilluns, 7 de juliol de 2014, a les 12:26:46, Frank Reininghaus va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 2014-07-07 11:53 GMT+02:00 Leonardo Giordani:
> > > > Frank, what does Dolphin use to preview things like JPEGs? If I
> > 
> > correctly
> > 
> > > > understand libkdegraphics-thumbnailers contains only stuff for PS/PDF
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > > > RAW images.
> > > 
> > > quite a few thumbnailers for images can be found in kde-runtime:
> > http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-runtime.git&a=tree&h=46a482891a2e3074ca3e8c
> > c1
> > 
> > 80ba76c315054359&hb=5f7dcf4eafeeff7b272c799c6bd7bddc2e57b8da&f=kioslave%2F
> > th> 
> > > umbnail
> > > 
> > > > if I would try to use poppler to get PDF thumbnails shall I hack this
> > > > (unmaintained) package or is there a better place?
> > > 
> > > I think that making use of Poppler, rather than using gs, might indeed
> > > have some benefits (like faster generation of previews), but I can't
> > > really give good advice on what would be the best way to approach such
> > > a project.
> > > 
> > > I hope that some readers of this list do have more in-depth Poppler,
> > > gs and/or general thumbnailing experience than myself and can provide
> > > some feedback. Alternatively, try to get in touch with the Okular
> > > guys. They might also know who worked on the existing PS/PDF
> > > thumbnailer (which hasn't seen many commits recently).
> > 
> > The existing thumbnailer hasn't been touched for years i'd say. It kind of
> > works (noone cares if thumbnails are not 100% accurate or a bit slower)
> > and is
> > why noone cared to touch it.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >   
> > > Best regards,
> > > Frank
> > > 
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