Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] tracker needs imagemagick

[Erlend Davidson <E R M Davidson sms ed ac uk>]

On 11 Jan 2007, at 01:54, Edward Duffy wrote:

> I'm working on getting tracker to use the .desktop file format defined
> by the XFCE project (suggested by Erland).  It's just about done, and
> I'll include the imagemagick version of the pdf thumbnailer in that.
> Thanks, I wasn't aware imagemagick handled pdf, although I can't say
> I'm surprised.
It does postscript too - although that is quite slow.

> On 1/10/07, Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd gentoo org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Erlend Davidson wrote:
> >
> > > Erlend Davidson wrote:
> >
> > > > Actually, I noticed that evince-thumbnailer is quite slow  
> > > > compared to
> > > > ImageMagick's 'convert'.  You can just use:
> > > > $ convert "pdf:inputfile.pdf[0]" -scale 128x128 "png:outfile.png"
> > > > and it's much quicker (plus it removes the dependency on gnome -  
> > > > you
> > > > already have imagemagick).  Convert also generates much nicer  
> > > > looking
> > > > image.  The [0] is just to make sure it only converts the first  
> > > > page,
> > > > and not the whole document.
> >
> > I agree that in order to keep tracker desktop-neutral, it should use
> > convert, and in that spirit, I have attached a patch to use  
> > convert.  It
> > does seem that convert also produces a nicer image.
> >
> > However, I was unable to reproduce the improvement in time, infact,
> > convert took slightly longer, though I dont think its enough to  
> > justify
> > not trying to use convert instead.
> >
> > Saleem Abdulrasool
> > compnerd (at) gentoo (dot) org
> >
> >
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