[opensuse] Attaching an icon to a pdf file
I have a number of pdf files which are full copies of Scientific American magazine issues. Most of these appear in Konqueror as icons which reduced copies of the issue's cover. Two of them however are shown with the generic Acrobat icon (all were downloaded in exactly the same way, from the same web page) The same web page also has separate pdf files containing the cover illustration alone. Is there a way I could use these to replace the Acrobat icon for those issues? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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I have a number of pdf files which are full copies of Scientific American magazine issues. Most of these appear in Konqueror as icons which reduced copies of the issue's cover. Two of them however are shown with the generic Acrobat icon (all were downloaded in exactly the same way, from the same web page)
My _guess_ is that those pdfs contain preview data, and those two do not. If that is so, there is nothing you can do, except generating those again, which you can't. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpiRuUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VH1QCaAnOWnqlD7u9KTuNelpQaXkp6 +b8AnRwnQHyFNcn5bjaFpoKEvhnGnpi8 =o6Fu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi.
I have this kind of problem, in a complete random way, throw several
directories in my Suse 11.0 machine. It's not related to a preview,
since a few (very few, I admit) times I observed that changing
directories where the files are was enough to make the icon preview
appear. Also, it's not something related only to PDF files, but it
also randomly happens in video, image and the "oddest", pure text
files icon previews.
Now are those previews created? Is there a way to convince konqueror
to "recreate" them, either for a file or for a specific directory?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Jones
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Carlos E. R.
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On Sunday, 2009-07-19 at 00:35 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
I have a number of pdf files which are full copies of Scientific American magazine issues. Most of these appear in Konqueror as icons which reduced copies of the issue's cover. Two of them however are shown with the generic Acrobat icon (all were downloaded in exactly the same way, from the same web page)
My _guess_ is that those pdfs contain preview data, and those two do not. If that is so, there is nothing you can do, except generating those again, which you can't.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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On Saturday July 18 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
I have a number of pdf files which are full copies of Scientific American magazine issues. Most of these appear in Konqueror as icons which reduced copies of the issue's cover. Two of them however are shown with the generic Acrobat icon (all were downloaded in exactly the same way, from the same web page).
I was going to ask you which issues didn't work, since I, too, subscribe to the digital edition of Scientific American and wanted to see if I had the same or similar issue. But when I look at the directory in which I keep those files using Konqueror (something I've not done before 'cause I just use the shell for file management), I don't see any preview icons at all. I checked the preview options and they're set to show previews for PS and PDF files. I tried different views, to no avail. I also turned the preview options off and on (and wiggled some cables) but still no previews.
... -- Stan Goodman
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At 01:38:17 on Sunday Sunday 19 July 2009, Randall R Schulz
On Saturday July 18 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
I have a number of pdf files which are full copies of Scientific American magazine issues. Most of these appear in Konqueror as icons which reduced copies of the issue's cover. Two of them however are shown with the generic Acrobat icon (all were downloaded in exactly the same way, from the same web page).
I was going to ask you which issues didn't work, since I, too, subscribe to the digital edition of Scientific American and wanted to see if I had the same or similar issue. But when I look at the directory in which I keep those files using Konqueror (something I've not done before 'cause I just use the shell for file management), I don't see any preview icons at all. I checked the preview options and they're set to show previews for PS and PDF files. I tried different views, to no avail. I also turned the preview options off and on (and wiggled some cables) but still no previews.
For what it's worth, the offending files are those for February and August 2009. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday July 18 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
At 01:38:17 on Sunday Sunday 19 July 2009, Randall R Schulz
wrote: On Saturday July 18 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
I have a number of pdf files which are full copies of Scientific American magazine issues. Most of these appear in Konqueror as icons which reduced copies of the issue's cover. Two of them however are shown with the generic Acrobat icon ...
I was going to ask you which issues didn't work, since I, too, subscribe to the digital edition of Scientific American and wanted to see if I had the same or similar issue. But when I look at the directory in which I keep those files using Konqueror (...), I don't see any preview icons at all. ...
For what it's worth, the offending files are those for February and August 2009.
For me, they're all the same. Just a generic PDF icon. However, I did discover that if I open a properties dialog for any of these files, including the ones you mentioned, and switch to the Preview tab in that dialog, a preview is generated.
-- Stan Goodman
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At 02:57:45 on Sunday Sunday 19 July 2009, Randall R Schulz
On Saturday July 18 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
At 01:38:17 on Sunday Sunday 19 July 2009, Randall R Schulz
wrote: On Saturday July 18 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
I have a number of pdf files which are full copies of Scientific American magazine issues. Most of these appear in Konqueror as icons which reduced copies of the issue's cover. Two of them however are shown with the generic Acrobat icon ...
I was going to ask you which issues didn't work, since I, too, subscribe to the digital edition of Scientific American and wanted to see if I had the same or similar issue. But when I look at the directory in which I keep those files using Konqueror (...), I don't see any preview icons at all. ...
For what it's worth, the offending files are those for February and August 2009.
For me, they're all the same. Just a generic PDF icon. However, I did discover that if I open a properties dialog for any of these files, including the ones you mentioned, and switch to the Preview tab in that dialog, a preview is generated.
If you mean you see a preview that looks like the icon should look, I get the same thing, but it doesn't make an icon. The problem has to be in the desktop, and not in the files, since I get only two bad ones and you get more. Maybe we should confront KDE with this, on one of their many mailing lists. I should mention that I have OS v11.1 here with KDE3. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Randall R Schulz
But when I look at the directory in which I keep those files using Konqueror (something I've not done before 'cause I just use the shell for file management), I don't see any preview icons at all. I checked the preview options and they're set to show previews for PS and PDF files. I tried different views, to no avail. I also turned the preview options off and on (and wiggled some cables) but still no previews.
You probably need to adjust the upper size limit for previews in konq. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday July 18 2009, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Randall R Schulz
[07-18-09 18:39]: But when I look at the directory in which I keep those files using Konqueror (something I've not done before 'cause I just use the shell for file management), I don't see any preview icons at all. ...
You probably need to adjust the upper size limit for previews in konq.
I increased it to 40 MB, which is bigger than any of the SciAm PDF files I have, and still I see no previews. I should remove that paragraph but... I wrote it after changing the Konqueror configuration and coming back to KMail. When I then went back to Konqueror to think about ways to try to induce it to generate the preview icons, I saw that it was in the process of creating them. So it appears this is the issue. The size limit for generating previews.
Patrick Shanahan
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participants (5)
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Carlos E. R.
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Jones de Andrade
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Patrick Shanahan
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Randall R Schulz
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Stan Goodman