Hi All
I have had a client request on a upload facility for his clients, but after upload that a image thumbnail to be created.
All normal images are ok but he his talking about .psd, .pdf, .eps, .ppt
Having a good look around I think wih imagemagick & ghostscript will cater for most of these but I cant find a solution of PPT or EPS.
Im hoping that imagemagick will be able to do eps as it can do a psd.
Any suggestion on EPS or PPT file format.
Thank you if you can advice.
PPT is a powerpoint presentation. So creating an image that is a PPT would require some library that can pull this off.
Here are some resources to help you out.
EPS is a vector format, so not unless you have your image as vector objects, you wont be able to do this correctly.
Just some thoughts - none of these things has been tested by myself.
EPS:
You should be able to convert your EPS to a PDF with ghostscript. Using imagemagick & ghostscript you can convert the PDF to some bitmap format (GIF, PNG or JPG).
PPT:
This seems to be somehow more complicated. If your are on a Windows machine you could resort to use the Powerpoint API from within a small hand-written converter. Another possibility would perhaps be to use Apache POI-HSLF whichs is a Java API to the Powerpoint file format. This would require a Java program for the conversion process. The last resort could be that study the Powerpoint binary file format and see if there is e.g. a thumbnail embedded (perhaps beeing used for the file icon in Windows Explorer) that could be extracted.
You could find some free icon sets and use a default icon for all .ppt file and another for all .eps. You can then further extend this for all file formats that cannot be converted to a image, such as audio files. Not the perfect solution but something a user may feel more comfortable with then just having text.