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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