Re: Thumbnailing



On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 05:29, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 10 Jul 2002, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is it possible to extend the thumbnailing support in Nautilus? I want to
> > write a font-viewer, and it seems like the easiest thing will be to add
> > thumbnailing support for fonts, and a nautilus view that will showcase
> > one font at a time.
> 
> It's surely possible if you're willing to hack some. I'm not sure how such 
> a thumbnail would look though. Render "ABCabc"? What if those glyphs don't 
> exist in the file? Also, won't the icon be rather hard to see and hit? 

EFM did it this way:
http://mandrake.net/images/may31.2000.jpg
which shows "AbCd\nEfgh". That worked quite well; I'm not sure how it
would behave if it didn't have the right glyphs. I imagine you'd get
empty boxes or something.

--Ben

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